Information and IdeasVery hardInference from what is left unsaid
Information and Ideas practice question
The estate agent's description of the cottage runs to four hundred words on the garden, the views, and the village, and mentions the house itself only as 'offering scope'. ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. The house is probably in poor condition, and the description is steering attention away from it.Correct
- B. The garden is small.
- C. The house has recently been renovated.
- D. The village is unattractive.
Answer: A. The house is probably in poor condition, and the description is steering attention away from it.
Everything praised but the house; 'scope' is the estate agent's word for work needed.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The garden is small.
- Four hundred words on the garden suggest otherwise.
- C. The house has recently been renovated.
- 'Scope' suggests the reverse.
- D. The village is unattractive.
- The village is praised.
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