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The trouble with 'saving' a village pub by turning it into a community-owned café is that the thing saved is the building, not the pub. A pub is a room where people who did not plan to meet, meet. A café with a rota of volunteers and a closing time of four is a good thing, but it is a different thing, and nobody should be surprised when the regulars, having lost their pub, do not become customers of it.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- A. Converting a pub to a community café preserves the building but not what made it a pub, so its old users are unlikely to return.Correct
- B. Community cafés are worthless.
- C. Pubs should close at four.
- D. Volunteers should be paid.
Answer: A. Converting a pub to a community café preserves the building but not what made it a pub, so its old users are unlikely to return.
The building saved; the pub lost.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Community cafés are worthless.
- 'A good thing, but a different thing.'
- C. Pubs should close at four.
- Not proposed.
- D. Volunteers should be paid.
- Not mentioned.
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