Information and IdeasHardInference from a timing pattern
Information and Ideas practice question
The town's power cuts happen only on weekday evenings between 6 and 7, never at weekends, and began the month a large factory on the edge of town started an evening shift. This suggests that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the factory's evening shift is putting a strain on the town's electricity supply.Correct
- B. the town uses less electricity at weekends.
- C. the factory closes at weekends because of the power cuts.
- D. the power cuts are caused by storms.
Answer: A. the factory's evening shift is putting a strain on the town's electricity supply.
Cuts only when the factory's evening shift runs, and only since it began.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the town uses less electricity at weekends.
- Perhaps, but the specific 6–7 weekday window points to the shift.
- C. the factory closes at weekends because of the power cuts.
- The text says nothing about why the factory has no weekend shift.
- D. the power cuts are caused by storms.
- Storms don't keep to weekday evenings.
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