Information and IdeasHardWhat a literary passage conveys about a practice
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The following text is from a short story.
Her grandmother's recipes were written in a hand Noor could barely read, and in measures — a teacup, a knob of butter, 'enough' flour — that no one could reproduce exactly. She cooked from them anyway, and when a dish came out right she could not have said why.
Which statement best describes what the text conveys about Noor's cooking from the recipes?
- A. She follows them despite their vagueness and cannot fully account for her successes.Correct
- B. She has rewritten them in precise modern measures.
- C. She refuses to cook from them.
- D. Every dish she makes from them comes out right.
Answer: A. She follows them despite their vagueness and cannot fully account for her successes.
'She cooked from them anyway' and 'could not have said why' — she uses the vague recipes and can't explain what works.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. She has rewritten them in precise modern measures.
- No rewriting is mentioned; the measures remain vague.
- C. She refuses to cook from them.
- 'She cooked from them anyway.'
- D. Every dish she makes from them comes out right.
- 'When a dish came out right' implies that sometimes it didn't.
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