Information and IdeasEasy–MediumInference from a timing coincidence
Information and Ideas practice question
The number of swifts nesting in the church tower halved the summer after the tower's ventilation slots were fitted with mesh to keep out pigeons. This suggests that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the mesh kept out the swifts as well as the pigeons.Correct
- B. the swifts were eaten by pigeons.
- C. the swifts moved to a warmer country.
- D. the church stopped ringing its bells.
Answer: A. the mesh kept out the swifts as well as the pigeons.
Halved the summer after the mesh went in: the mesh blocked them too.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the swifts were eaten by pigeons.
- Pigeons don't eat swifts.
- C. the swifts moved to a warmer country.
- Swifts migrate every year regardless; the change is in nesting here.
- D. the church stopped ringing its bells.
- Bells aren't mentioned.
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