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Information and IdeasEasy–MediumInference about a hotel's guests

Information and Ideas practice question

The hotel's breakfast room is empty until nine, and then, in the space of ten minutes, fills with guests carrying walking poles and maps. From this it can be inferred that most of the hotel's guests ____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

  1. A. are walkers who set out after a late breakfast.Correct
  2. B. leave the hotel before dawn.
  3. C. do not eat breakfast.
  4. D. are attending a conference.

Answer: A. are walkers who set out after a late breakfast.

Poles and maps at nine.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. leave the hotel before dawn.
They are there at nine.
C. do not eat breakfast.
They fill the breakfast room.
D. are attending a conference.
Walking poles suggest walking.

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