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A recipe for a spiced bread, written in the margin of a 1780s account book, was tried by a museum's kitchen volunteers last year. The bread was dense and bitter, and the volunteers concluded that either tastes have changed or a key ingredient had gone unrecorded.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

  1. A. A recreated eighteenth-century bread turned out unappealing, leaving the volunteers unsure whether tastes or the recipe were to blame.Correct
  2. B. The bread was delicious.
  3. C. The account book was from the 1980s.
  4. D. The museum sells the bread in its café.

Answer: A. A recreated eighteenth-century bread turned out unappealing, leaving the volunteers unsure whether tastes or the recipe were to blame.

Dense and bitter, with two possible explanations: the text's whole content.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. The bread was delicious.
'Dense and bitter.'
C. The account book was from the 1980s.
1780s, not 1980s.
D. The museum sells the bread in its café.
No sale is mentioned.

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