Information and IdeasVery hardInference weighing two possible causes
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A vineyard's yield fell by a third this year. The grower blamed the dry summer. However, the neighbouring vineyard, on the same slope with the same weather, had a normal yield — and it had replaced its ageing vines five years ago, while the first vineyard's vines are forty years old. The most reasonable interpretation is that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the age of the vines, rather than the weather, is the likelier cause of the fall in yield.Correct
- B. the dry summer affected only one side of the slope.
- C. the neighbouring vineyard had more rain.
- D. young vines produce less than old ones.
Answer: A. the age of the vines, rather than the weather, is the likelier cause of the fall in yield.
Same slope, same weather, different vine ages, different yields: the vines.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the dry summer affected only one side of the slope.
- The text says the same weather.
- C. the neighbouring vineyard had more rain.
- Same weather.
- D. young vines produce less than old ones.
- The young vines had the normal yield.
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