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The bridge's toll was abolished in 1932, but the toll house still stands and its window is still manned on one day a year, when a token toll of a penny is collected from every crossing. The ritual keeps alive the trust's legal right to charge, which would lapse if unused.
According to the text, why is the penny toll collected once a year?
- A. To preserve the trust's legal right to charge a toll.Correct
- B. To raise money for the bridge.
- C. To count the traffic.
- D. Because the toll was never abolished.
Answer: A. To preserve the trust's legal right to charge a toll.
A right that lapses if unused.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. To raise money for the bridge.
- A penny raises nothing worth counting.
- C. To count the traffic.
- Not mentioned.
- D. Because the toll was never abolished.
- It was abolished in 1932.
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