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Information and Ideas practice question

The hardware shop on the harbour stocks three brands of rope, a wall of brass fittings, and no garden tools at all. This suggests that ____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

  1. A. the shop's customers are mainly boat owners rather than gardeners.Correct
  2. B. the shop is about to close.
  3. C. gardening is banned in the town.
  4. D. the shop sells only rope.

Answer: A. the shop's customers are mainly boat owners rather than gardeners.

Rope and brass fittings, no garden tools, on the harbour: boats, not gardens.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. the shop is about to close.
Nothing suggests closure.
C. gardening is banned in the town.
An absurd leap from one shop's stock.
D. the shop sells only rope.
It also sells brass fittings.

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