Information and IdeasVery hardInference from an author's selective attention
Information and Ideas practice question
The travel writer's chapter on the city devotes ten pages to its cathedral and its markets and one sentence to its shipyards, which employ a third of its people. The chapter is dated 1958, the year the shipyards' closure was announced. ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. The writer seems to have looked past the city's present crisis to the parts of it a visitor would want to see.Correct
- B. The shipyards had already closed by 1958.
- C. The writer worked in the shipyards.
- D. The cathedral was closed in 1958.
Answer: A. The writer seems to have looked past the city's present crisis to the parts of it a visitor would want to see.
A third of the people, one sentence, in the year of the closure: the tourist's eye.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The shipyards had already closed by 1958.
- The closure was announced, not complete.
- C. The writer worked in the shipyards.
- Not suggested.
- D. The cathedral was closed in 1958.
- Not stated.
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