Read the passage from Gulliver's Travels.There was a most ingenious architect, who had contrived a new method for building houses, by beginning at the roof, and working downward to the foundation.

The passage says the architect builds houses by starting at the roof and working down to the foundation. Choice C restates that specific method: the architect builds houses from the top down. The other choices add ideas—such as Gulliver being fooled or impressed—that the passage does not mention.

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