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Craft and Structure practice question

There was a ____ of visitors to the exhibition all afternoon: never a queue, never an empty room.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?

  1. A. trickleCorrect
  2. B. flood
  3. C. shortage
  4. D. ban

Answer: A. trickle

Never a queue, never empty: a trickle.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. flood
A flood would make a queue.
C. shortage
Never an empty room.
D. ban
Visitors came.

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