Information and IdeasVery hardInferring intent from emphasis
Information and Ideas practice question
The company's annual report devotes twelve pages to its environmental initiatives, with photographs, and a single paragraph to its financial results. The results show a loss for the third consecutive year.
Based on the text, which statement about the company is most reasonable?
- A. It would rather draw readers' attention to its environmental work than to its finances.Correct
- B. Environmental work is its main source of income.
- C. It earned a profit last year.
- D. Its annual report is twelve pages long.
Answer: A. It would rather draw readers' attention to its environmental work than to its finances.
Twelve pages with photographs against one paragraph for three years of losses: the report is built to make readers look at one thing and not the other.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Environmental work is its main source of income.
- The text says nothing about where its income comes from — only that it made a loss.
- C. It earned a profit last year.
- The text states a loss 'for the third consecutive year'.
- D. Its annual report is twelve pages long.
- Twelve pages is the length of the environmental SECTION, not the whole report.
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