LR Drill Set 7, Question 11
The growth of the railroad system in Mundovia(38 more words not shown)
Which one of the following,(13 more words not shown)
- ARailroad terminals were(9 more words not shown)
- BMany people accustomed(10 more words not shown)
- CHorses frightened by(8 more words not shown)
- DInitially, travel by(8 more words not shown)
- EMany long train(11 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
You still have to get from the station to town.
The train can replace the long part of a journey without replacing every horse trip involved. Maybe the terminal sits outside the city center. Travelers could ride the train between cities and then take a horse-drawn carriage into town.
Think about flying somewhere today. The airplane handles the long distance, but you still need a way to reach the airport and a way to leave the destination airport. Flying doesn't make those local trips disappear.
What we’re looking for
That is my prediction for the apparent-discrepancy question. Accept both facts: many long journeys shifted to rail, yet horse traffic in and out of city centers didn't fall. A division between long-distance rail travel and local horse travel could let both happen at once.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
Terminals were generally a substantial distance from city centers. That leaves local journeys between station and town for horses or carriages to handle. A person who no longer rides a horse all the way between cities may still use one to reach the center after arriving by train. The long-distance substitution therefore needn't produce the expected decline in local horse traffic.
- B
People who dislike trains could keep riding horses, but that only explains why some horse travel continued. The passage already says many long trips did shift to trains. We still need to understand why that substantial change didn't reduce horse traffic at city centers. A continuing group of horse users, by itself, doesn't account for the missing decline.
- C
Frightened horses causing accidents tells us about a problem with horses near trains. It doesn't explain why their traffic failed to decrease. We aren't given a connection between those accidents and continued demand for trips in and out of city centers.
- D
Higher initial prices might discourage some train travel, but the passage tells us many long trips nevertheless moved to rail. It also describes several decades, not merely an unspecified initial period. D doesn't explain why the long trips that did switch failed to reduce local horse traffic.
- E
Additional train trips can occur without explaining anything about horses. We would still need to know that those travelers also used horses to get into or out of city centers. E doesn't give that connection. A provides the missing local transportation need directly.
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