Information and IdeasHardInference from a change in wording
Information and Ideas practice question
The ferry company's website used to promise 'sailings every hour'. This spring it promises 'a frequent service'. The timetable now shows sailings at irregular gaps of between forty minutes and two hours. ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. The vaguer wording seems designed to accommodate a service that no longer keeps to a fixed hourly pattern.Correct
- B. The ferry now sails more often than hourly.
- C. The company has stopped publishing a timetable.
- D. The service has been withdrawn.
Answer: A. The vaguer wording seems designed to accommodate a service that no longer keeps to a fixed hourly pattern.
'Every hour' replaced by 'frequent' as the gaps widen and vary.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The ferry now sails more often than hourly.
- Gaps up to two hours.
- C. The company has stopped publishing a timetable.
- The timetable is shown.
- D. The service has been withdrawn.
- It still sails.
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