Information and IdeasVery hardInference from what is deliberately omitted
Information and Ideas practice question
The guidebook devotes three pages to the cathedral, a page to the castle, and a paragraph to the town's other church, which it describes as 'of no particular interest'. The other church is the one the townspeople actually use, and the one they would show a visitor first.
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. The guidebook's judgements of interest seem to reflect a visitor's priorities rather than the town's own.Correct
- B. The townspeople never visit the cathedral.
- C. The guidebook was written by a townsperson.
- D. The other church is the largest building in the town.
Answer: A. The guidebook's judgements of interest seem to reflect a visitor's priorities rather than the town's own.
The book dismisses what the town values: two different scales of interest.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The townspeople never visit the cathedral.
- Not stated.
- C. The guidebook was written by a townsperson.
- Its priorities differ from the town's.
- D. The other church is the largest building in the town.
- Not stated.
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