Self-study
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Speaker 1 Summary
Xavier thinks it’s unsurprising that the new fast-food place is kaput. How did he see this coming? Well, there was no indoor seating, and sitting outside breathing exhaust isn’t a popular option.
Speaker 2 Summary
Miranda thinks that it was irresponsible for the bank to lend start-up capital for this new restaurant. Why? Because the bank should also have foreseen the restaurant’s failure, by realizing that the lack of indoor seating was a serious problem.
Objective
We’re looking for a point of agreement. Xavier and Miranda agree the failure of this fast-food restaurant was unsurprising; it was predictable, given the lack of indoor seating, that the new place would likely fail.
17.
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a
few people want ██ ███ ███████ █████ ████ ███
Neither Xavier nor Miranda expresses an opinion on this point. Neither one says anything about sitting outside being unpopular in general—even Xavier is only saying that it’s unpopular in the specific context of this one restaurant.
b
banks should not ███████ ███████████ ███████ ██████ ███████
Neither speaker expresses this broad opinion. Xavier never mentions banks, much less what they should or shouldn’t do. Miranda does talk about banks, but doesn’t go as far as saying that banks shouldn’t finance any restaurant without indoor seating, just this one restaurant.
c
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Neither speaker expresses an opinion on this. Both imply that indoor seating is necessary for the restaurant’s success, but neither speaker suggests that indoor seating is sufficient, all on its own, for (probable) success.
d
a fast-food place ██ ████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██ ████ ██ ██ ███ ███ ███████ ███████
Neither speaker expresses an opinion. For one, Miranda never discusses outdoor seating as a poor choice. She just believes it was unwise to provide no indoor seating. Maybe a restaurant with both options would have been fine.
e
the new fast-food █████ ██ ████ ██████ ███ █ █████ ███████
Xavier and Miranda both agree with this. Xavier says that the restaurant’s failure was unsurprising, and Miranda says that the bank should have seen that the restaurant was likely to fail. When failure is likely, that’s equivalent to “risky.”