Information and IdeasVery hardCentral idea of an argumentative text
Information and Ideas practice question
Every year the festival is judged by how many people came, and every year the number goes up, and every year the people who have come for twenty years say it was better when it was smaller. Both are right. Attendance measures the festival's success; it does not measure the festival. The question the organisers never ask is what the crowd is for.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A. Rising attendance shows the festival succeeding by one measure while leaving unasked what the festival is meant to be.Correct
- B. The festival should limit attendance.
- C. Long-standing visitors are wrong.
- D. Attendance is falling.
Answer: A. Rising attendance shows the festival succeeding by one measure while leaving unasked what the festival is meant to be.
Success by numbers, but not the thing itself.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The festival should limit attendance.
- Not proposed.
- C. Long-standing visitors are wrong.
- 'Both are right.'
- D. Attendance is falling.
- It rises.
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