Information and IdeasVery hardCentral idea of a passage with an implied thesis
Information and Ideas practice question
The parish's oldest map, of 1720, marks a well in the square with the note 'never known to fail'. The well was capped in 1930 when the mains came, and the square is now a car park. During the drought of 2022, when the mains ran low and the council brought water in by tanker, nobody knew where under the tarmac the well was, and the map, which would have told them, was in a drawer in the county archive forty miles away.
Which choice best states the central idea of the text?
- A. A resource the village once depended on was forgotten so completely that it was unavailable when needed again.Correct
- B. The 2022 drought was the worst in the village's history.
- C. Old maps should be kept in county archives.
- D. Car parks should be built on wells.
Answer: A. A resource the village once depended on was forgotten so completely that it was unavailable when needed again.
Capped, paved over, forgotten; needed, unfindable.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. The 2022 drought was the worst in the village's history.
- Not claimed.
- C. Old maps should be kept in county archives.
- The archive's distance is part of the problem.
- D. Car parks should be built on wells.
- Not suggested.
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