Ejercicio 1 · Preguntas de comprensión

Ejercicio 1 · Preguntas de comprensión

Elige la opción correcta.

1. What gave Marta the idea for the service?People bought tools and hardly used them.The library had too few books.The council asked for a new service.People bought tools and hardly used them. Está en el primer párrafo: los compraban, los usaban una vez y los guardaban.
2. What was the council worried about?That the library would become too popular.That objects would be damaged or lost.That the service would cost too much.Damaged or never returned. Es literalmente la duda que expresa el texto.
3. What does the text say about lost items?More are lost than books.The same number as books.Fewer are lost than books.Fewer than books. «A figure lower than for books».
4. What does Marta think the town really needed?A reason to talk to each other.More tools.A bigger library.A reason to talk to one another. Última frase del texto.
5. In the text, swap (paragraph 3) means…sellexchangewrite downExchange. Intercambiar consejos.
6. What is the writer attitude to the service?Critical.Uninterested.Positive but factual.Positive but factual. Da datos y no exagera: en preguntas de actitud, la respuesta rara vez es un extremo.