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Information and Ideas practice question

The bakery's queue on Sunday mornings begins forming at seven, an hour before it opens, and the people in it mostly know each other by name. Few of them buy more than one loaf. ____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

  1. A. The queue seems to serve as much as a weekly social gathering as a way of buying bread.Correct
  2. B. The bakery sells out by seven.
  3. C. The bread is expensive.
  4. D. The bakery opens at seven.

Answer: A. The queue seems to serve as much as a weekly social gathering as a way of buying bread.

An hour early, everyone known, one loaf each: company, not bread.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. The bakery sells out by seven.
It has not opened.
C. The bread is expensive.
Not stated.
D. The bakery opens at seven.
It opens at eight.

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