Read the text and match each task with the correct statement. Text: In 2019, the town of Alder Bay replaced its paper bus tickets with a mobile app. Officials expected older residents to complain, yet the loudest protests came from teenagers, who had always enjoyed trading unused paper tickets at school. Within a year, however, the number of passengers rose by 18 percent, and the app's designers noted that most new users were over sixty, who found the app's large buttons easier than counting coins.
1. The best statement of the main idea of the whole text
2. A conclusion about older passengers that the text implies but does not state directly
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- 1DThe new app led to unexpected reactions and results in Alder Bay.
- 2CPaying with coins had been hard for many older passengers.
Разбор
Row 1: The main idea must cover the whole text. The text describes protests from an unexpected group (teenagers) and then a rise in ridership driven by older users, so the whole passage is about surprising reactions and results. 'Teenagers in Alder Bay reject every kind of new technology' is an overgeneralisation, because the text only says they protested about paper tickets. 'Officials wrongly guessed which group would object to the change' is only one detail. 'Paying with coins had been hard for many older passengers' is a detail that is implied, not the main idea. Row 2: The text says that most new users were over sixty and found the large buttons easier than counting coins. From this we can conclude, without it being stated, that paying with coins had been hard for many older passengers. 'Officials wrongly guessed which group would object to the change' is stated almost directly in the text, so it is not an implied conclusion. 'Teenagers in Alder Bay reject every kind of new technology' has no support in the text and says nothing about older passengers. 'The new app led to unexpected reactions and results in Alder Bay' is a summary of the whole text, not a conclusion about older passengers.