Read the following article from a website.
Residents of Willow Ridge, Alberta, could soon see small drones carrying parcels over their roofs. Two retailers have asked town council for permission to run a delivery service from a warehouse on the edge of town, and they promise to drop prescriptions and groceries at the door within forty minutes. Council will hold a public hearing in November. A draft map of the flight routes has already drawn more than two hundred comments, many of them from families whose back yards sit under a route.
Helen Takahashi, a pharmacist on the town’s main street, says the service would help people who cannot easily reach a store. “Every week I have patients who wait a whole day for a ride just to pick up one prescription,” she said. “Some of them are home from surgery, and some no longer drive at all. A drone could bring their medicine before lunch.” Takahashi adds that her pharmacy would deliver only to addresses that patients have registered in advance.
Gareth Sinclair, who chairs the Juniper Heights residents’ association, says he is far less convinced. “These machines fly low, right over trampolines, pools and gardens where children play,” Sinclair said. “Each drone also carries a camera to prove that the package arrived. Nobody has told us how long that video is kept or who gets to watch it.” Sinclair would also like every flight to stay above main roads and away from school grounds.
Councillor Mireille Thibodeau, who sits on the transportation committee, suggests a slower path. “I would rather test this carefully than give a final yes or no right now,” she explained. “A one-year trial for medicine only, with a public record of every complaint, would show us whether the noise and the cameras are a real problem.” Victor Salinas, who drives a delivery van for one of the two retailers, worries about the jobs at stake, including his own. “The short trips are the easy part of my day,” Salinas said. “If the drones take those, the company will need fewer of us on the road.”
Using the drop-down menu (▾), choose the best option according to the information given on the website.
Paragraph three mainly presents 2..
This article would most likely be published in 3..
Victor Salinas fears that drones taking the short trips would lead to 4..
Mireille Thibodeau is most likely 5..
The following is a comment by a visitor to the website page. Complete the comment by choosing the best option to fill in each blank.
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Correct Answer: a plan for drone deliveries in a town
Why this is correct: Two retailers want to run a drone delivery service in Willow Ridge. Every person quoted reacts to that plan.
Passage Reference: Two retailers have asked town council for permission to run a delivery service
Tips: Ask which option covers what every quoted person is talking about. An option that fits only one speaker or one sentence is a detail, not the subject.
Why the other options are wrong:
- a new clinic opening near the town’s schools: Nobody talks about opening a clinic. Takahashi already runs a pharmacy.
- a complaint about noise from a local warehouse: The warehouse is only where the drones would start. Nobody complains about noise from it.
- a survey of how residents buy their groceries: Groceries are one thing the drones would carry. No survey of shopping habits is described.
Correct Answer: a neighbourhood leader’s doubts about the service
Passage Reference: Nobody has told us how long that video is kept or who gets to watch it.
Why this is correct: Paragraph three belongs to Sinclair, who chairs a residents’ association. He worries about drones flying low over yards and about the video their cameras record.
Tips: Reread “Paragraph three” and ask yourself why the reporter put it in the story. Keep the option that matches what those lines do.
Why the other options are wrong:
- a pharmacist’s plan to help patients at home: Takahashi’s plan to help her patients comes in paragraph two.
- a driver’s view of the planned flight paths: Salinas speaks about jobs, and no driver discusses the flight paths.
- a retailer’s reasons for choosing the warehouse: No retailer is quoted, and the article never explains why the warehouse was chosen.
Correct Answer: a local paper for the town’s residents
Passage Reference: Council will hold a public hearing in November.
Why this is correct: This report covers a request to the town council and quotes people who live or work in the town. A newspaper for local residents fits it best.
Tips: Read the whole article again. Then go through the publications one by one, and ask which would run this report unchanged.
Why the other options are wrong:
- a manual on how to fly delivery drones: Nothing in the report explains how to fly a drone.
- a national journal of aviation research: No research findings are reported. The article only shares local views.
- a magazine for pharmacists across Canada: One pharmacist is quoted, but the story is about a town decision, not pharmacy work.
Correct Answer: fewer driving jobs at his company
Passage Reference: If the drones take those, the company will need fewer of us
Why this is correct: Salinas says that if drones take the short trips, his company will need fewer drivers.
Tips: Find the lines Salinas speaks and read them slowly. Keep the outcome Salinas himself expects, and cross out outcomes that belong to other people.
Why the other options are wrong:
- longer working days for drivers: Salinas never says drivers would work longer days.
- more parcels going to the wrong homes: Nobody says parcels would go to the wrong homes.
- lower prices for groceries in town: Nobody talks about grocery prices falling.
Correct Answer: open to a limited trial of the plan
Passage Reference: A one-year trial for medicine only, with a public record of every complaint, would show us whether the noise and the cameras are a real problem.
Why this is correct: Thibodeau would rather test carefully than say yes or no now. She suggests a one-year trial for medicine only, so she is open to a small test.
Tips: Go back over everything Thibodeau says. Weigh each choice against her words, and cross out any choice that Thibodeau herself never puts forward.
Why the other options are wrong:
- ready to vote against the service now: She says she will not give a final yes or no right now.
- keen to start with grocery deliveries: She wants the trial to carry medicine only.
- mainly worried about drivers losing work: Job losses worry Salinas, not Thibodeau.
Correct Answer: forty minutes
Passage Reference: they promise to drop prescriptions and groceries at the door within forty minutes
Why this is correct: The retailers promise to drop prescriptions and groceries at the door within forty minutes.
Tips: This blank needs a length of time. Find the promise that the two retailers make to customers.
Why the other options are wrong:
- ten minutes: The retailers promise a longer time than ten minutes.
- twenty minutes: The article gives a longer time than twenty minutes.
- thirty minutes: The retailers promise a longer time than thirty minutes.
Correct Answer: more than two hundred
Passage Reference: A draft map of the flight routes has already drawn more than two hundred comments
Why this is correct: The draft map of the flight routes has already drawn more than two hundred comments.
Tips: You need a number of responses from the public. Find what the article says about reactions to the route map.
Why the other options are wrong:
- about one hundred and fifty: The article gives a bigger number of comments than this.
- almost two hundred: The article says more than two hundred, not almost two hundred.
- more than three hundred: Three hundred is not in the article. The number given is two hundred.
Correct Answer: lunch
Passage Reference: A drone could bring their medicine before lunch.
Why this is correct: Takahashi says a drone could bring her patients their medicine before lunch.
Tips: Find what the pharmacist says a drone could do for patients who wait for rides. Check the time of day she gives.
Why the other options are wrong:
- breakfast: Takahashi does not mention breakfast.
- dinner: Dinner is not mentioned. Takahashi names an earlier time of day.
- bedtime: Bedtime is not in the article.
Correct Answer: registered in advance
Passage Reference: her pharmacy would deliver only to addresses that patients have registered in advance
Why this is correct: Takahashi says her pharmacy would deliver only to addresses that patients have registered in advance.
Tips: The commenter is repeating a limit on the pharmacist’s service. Find the condition she sets for where drones may go.
Why the other options are wrong:
- within ten kilometres: Takahashi does not give any distance limit.
- inside the town limits: Takahashi does not mention town limits.
- fitted with a landing pad: Landing pads are not mentioned in the article.
Correct Answer: main roads
Passage Reference: Sinclair would also like every flight to stay above main roads and away from school grounds.
Why this is correct: Sinclair would like every flight to stay above main roads and away from school grounds.
Tips: The commenter means the association chair. Find where he says the flights should go instead of over homes.
Why the other options are wrong:
- open farmland: Sinclair does not mention farmland.
- the rail line: A rail line is not mentioned in the article.
- the river: No river is mentioned in the article.
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