SAT Reading & Writing · Cross-Text Connections
**Text 1** An architecture critic praises a newly restored cathedral facade for faithfully preserving the building's original medieval…
Text 1
An architecture critic praises a newly restored cathedral facade for faithfully preserving the building's original medieval appearance, noting that the restoration team used historical records to match the stone's original color and texture.
Text 2
A conservation scientist reviewing the same restoration notes that several structural elements were replaced with modern materials for safety reasons, materials that were deliberately treated to visually resemble the original stone but are chemically very different from it.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the two texts?
An architecture critic praises a newly restored cathedral facade for faithfully preserving the building's original medieval appearance, noting that the restoration team used historical records to match the stone's original color and texture.
Text 2
A conservation scientist reviewing the same restoration notes that several structural elements were replaced with modern materials for safety reasons, materials that were deliberately treated to visually resemble the original stone but are chemically very different from it.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the two texts?
Answer and explanation
Answer: D: The two texts describe the same restoration from different angles, visual faithfulness and underlying material composition, without necessarily contradicting each other.
Text 2 doesn't dispute that the facade looks historically faithful; it adds a different layer of information, about material substitution beneath the visual surface, that Text 1 doesn't address. D captures this as complementary information instead of contradiction. A overstates Text 2 into a wholesale rejection of Text 1's praise, which concerns appearance, not material authenticity. C misreads two connected accounts of the same restoration. B directly contradicts Text 2's specific point about material replacement.
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