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Information and Ideas practice question

The field is long and thin, with a slight ridge running down its middle, and the deeds show that until 1850 it was recorded as two fields. This suggests that ____

Which choice most logically completes the text?

  1. A. the ridge marks where a boundary once ran between two separate fields.Correct
  2. B. the field has always been a single field.
  3. C. the ridge was built as a road.
  4. D. the deeds are wrong.

Answer: A. the ridge marks where a boundary once ran between two separate fields.

A ridge down the middle, two fields until 1850.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. the field has always been a single field.
The deeds record two fields.
C. the ridge was built as a road.
Nothing suggests a road.
D. the deeds are wrong.
The ridge supports the deeds.

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