Information and IdeasHardDetail: what the choir decided
Information and Ideas practice question
The village choir had sung the same Christmas programme for forty years. When the new director proposed replacing half of it with music by living composers, the older members objected, and a vote was called. The result surprised everyone: the new programme won by a single vote, cast, it later emerged, by the choir's oldest member, who said she had wanted to hear something she did not already know by heart.
According to the text, which of the following is true of the vote?
- A. The new programme won narrowly, with the deciding vote cast by the choir's oldest member.Correct
- B. The older members voted unanimously against the new programme.
- C. The new director cast the deciding vote.
- D. The old programme was kept unchanged.
Answer: A. The new programme won narrowly, with the deciding vote cast by the choir's oldest member.
One vote, from the oldest singer.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The older members voted unanimously against the new programme.
- The oldest member voted for it.
- C. The new director cast the deciding vote.
- The deciding vote was the oldest member's.
- D. The old programme was kept unchanged.
- The new programme won.
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