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Information and Ideas practice question

The allotments nearest the railway line produce the earliest crops on the site each spring. The line runs along a south-facing embankment, and the trains pass close enough for the plot-holders to wave to the drivers. ____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

  1. A. The embankment probably shelters those plots and reflects warmth onto them, bringing the crops on early.Correct
  2. B. The trains fertilise the soil.
  3. C. The plot-holders near the line work harder.
  4. D. The railway plots have poorer soil.

Answer: A. The embankment probably shelters those plots and reflects warmth onto them, bringing the crops on early.

South-facing embankment, close by: shelter and warmth.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. The trains fertilise the soil.
Not suggested.
C. The plot-holders near the line work harder.
Not suggested.
D. The railway plots have poorer soil.
They produce the earliest crops.

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