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Information and Ideas practice question

The library's records show that the same forty cookery books are borrowed every December and returned in January, while its gardening books go out in March and come back in June. This suggests that ____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

  1. A. borrowers use the library's books for tasks tied to particular times of year.Correct
  2. B. the library closes for most of the year.
  3. C. cookery books are more popular than gardening books.
  4. D. the library has only eighty books.

Answer: A. borrowers use the library's books for tasks tied to particular times of year.

Cooking at Christmas, planting in spring.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. the library closes for most of the year.
Books go out and come back all year.
C. cookery books are more popular than gardening books.
No comparison of totals is made.
D. the library has only eighty books.
The forty and the gardening books are examples, not the whole stock.

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