Craft and StructureEasy–MediumTwo texts with different reasons for the same advice
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Pupils should learn to cook at school so that they can feed themselves cheaply when they leave home, says teacher Ro Malik.
Text 2
Cooking lessons should be compulsory: children who cook eat more vegetables and less processed food.
Based on the texts, how would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Malik's view?
- A. By agreeing that pupils should learn to cook, while stressing health rather than cost.Correct
- B. By arguing that cooking should not be taught.
- C. By claiming that cooking lessons are too expensive.
- D. By saying that children already eat well.
Answer: A. By agreeing that pupils should learn to cook, while stressing health rather than cost.
Same conclusion, different reason.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. By arguing that cooking should not be taught.
- Text 2 wants compulsory lessons.
- C. By claiming that cooking lessons are too expensive.
- Cost is Text 1's concern, not an objection in Text 2.
- D. By saying that children already eat well.
- Text 2 implies they eat too much processed food.
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