Information and IdeasHardInference from what a record shows
Information and Ideas practice question
The town's coroner's records for the 1880s list dozens of deaths from 'falls in the street' each January and February and almost none in other months. The town's streets were cobbled and steep. This suggests that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. ice on the steep cobbles made the streets dangerous in winter.Correct
- B. the coroner worked only in winter.
- C. the streets were rebuilt in spring each year.
- D. people did not go out in summer.
Answer: A. ice on the steep cobbles made the streets dangerous in winter.
Falls concentrated in the coldest months on steep cobbles: ice.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the coroner worked only in winter.
- Other causes of death are recorded in other months.
- C. the streets were rebuilt in spring each year.
- Nothing suggests rebuilding.
- D. people did not go out in summer.
- Summer deaths from other causes show people were about.
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