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The new café on Mill Street serves excellent coffee, but the service is slow: on two visits we waited over twenty minutes to be served.

Which choice best states the main idea of the text?

  1. A. The café's coffee is very good, but customers wait a long time to be served.Correct
  2. B. The café has closed.
  3. C. The café's coffee is poor.
  4. D. The café is on Mill Street.

Answer: A. The café's coffee is very good, but customers wait a long time to be served.

Good coffee, slow service.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. The café has closed.
It is open.
C. The café's coffee is poor.
The coffee is excellent.
D. The café is on Mill Street.
True, but only a detail.

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