Information and IdeasVery hardCentral idea of an argumentative text
Information and Ideas practice question
The council's report calls the town's empty shops a 'retail problem'. They are not. They are the visible end of a housing problem: the flats above them stand empty because their leases forbid residential use, and shops in a street where nobody lives close at five and die by degrees. Let people live over the shops and the shops will follow.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A. The empty shops are a symptom of the empty flats above them, and allowing people to live there would revive the street.Correct
- B. The town has too many shops.
- C. Shops should stay open later.
- D. The council's report is too long.
Answer: A. The empty shops are a symptom of the empty flats above them, and allowing people to live there would revive the street.
A housing problem wearing a retail face.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The town has too many shops.
- Not argued.
- C. Shops should stay open later.
- Not the proposal.
- D. The council's report is too long.
- Not mentioned.
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