Information and IdeasVery hardInference about a recipe book's owner
Information and Ideas practice question
The recipe book's early pages are in a careful copperplate hand and list dishes for twelve; the later pages, in the same hand grown shaky, give dishes for one, with notes like 'half this is plenty'. A reader may infer that over the years the book's owner ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. grew old and came to cook for herself alone.Correct
- B. learned to write more neatly.
- C. began cooking for a larger household.
- D. gave the book to a younger relative.
Answer: A. grew old and came to cook for herself alone.
A shaky hand, dishes for one.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. learned to write more neatly.
- The hand grew shaky.
- C. began cooking for a larger household.
- Twelve fell to one.
- D. gave the book to a younger relative.
- The same hand throughout.
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