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Information and Ideas practice question

The library's afternoon readers are mostly pensioners, and their number doubled the week the town's day centre closed. The library has since added a second kettle. ____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

  1. A. The library seems to have taken over some of the day centre's social role for older residents.Correct
  2. B. The library has become a day centre.
  3. C. The pensioners have started reading more.
  4. D. The day centre reopened in the library.

Answer: A. The library seems to have taken over some of the day centre's social role for older residents.

Doubled when the centre closed; a second kettle.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. The library has become a day centre.
It remains a library.
C. The pensioners have started reading more.
The kettle suggests company, not reading.
D. The day centre reopened in the library.
Not stated.

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