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Information and Ideas practice question
The lighthouse log records the lamp lit every evening for thirty years except one week in 1953, when the entries stop. The next entry begins: 'Relieved at last. Ate.' This suggests that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the keeper was cut off and short of food for a week, most likely by a storm.Correct
- B. the keeper took a holiday.
- C. the lighthouse was decommissioned in 1953.
- D. the log was rewritten later.
Answer: A. the keeper was cut off and short of food for a week, most likely by a storm.
A gap, then 'relieved at last' and eating: isolation and hunger, ended by relief.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the keeper took a holiday.
- 'Relieved at last. Ate.' is not the language of a holiday.
- C. the lighthouse was decommissioned in 1953.
- The log continues after 1953.
- D. the log was rewritten later.
- Nothing suggests rewriting.
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