SAT Reading & Writing · Cross-Text Connections
**Text 1** A restaurant critic praises a new restaurant for its creative menu, noting that several dishes combine ingredients rarely seen…
Text 1
A restaurant critic praises a new restaurant for its creative menu, noting that several dishes combine ingredients rarely seen together.
Text 2
A different critic reviewing the same restaurant finds the menu overly complicated, arguing that some dishes combine too many ingredients for any single flavor to stand out.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the two texts?
A restaurant critic praises a new restaurant for its creative menu, noting that several dishes combine ingredients rarely seen together.
Text 2
A different critic reviewing the same restaurant finds the menu overly complicated, arguing that some dishes combine too many ingredients for any single flavor to stand out.
Which choice best describes the relationship between the two texts?
Answer and explanation
Answer: D: The two critics focus on the same aspect of the menu, its combination of ingredients, but reach different judgments about whether this is a strength or a weakness.
Both critics focus on the same feature, unusual ingredient combinations, but one views it positively as creative and the other negatively as overcomplicated. D captures this shared focus with differing judgment. A misstates the clear disagreement between the two. C incorrectly frames a difference in opinion as a factual error. B contradicts the passage, which states both critics reviewed the same restaurant.
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