A logical completion question tests whether you can finish the text’s reasoning from its clues. Read the words right before the blank to see what kind of ending you need; because asks for a reason. Then put the clues in a few words and connect what happens with why it happens. Predict a reason the text supports, using only those clues. A possible reason isn't enough if the passage gives you no evidence for it.
Hints
- Hint 1
Look at Maya Gupta’s statement about the new machines. Find what she says the library will gain from them.
- Hint 2
Compare what patrons can do at a kiosk with Gupta’s statement about librarians. How could the first change make the second possible?
Step-by-step
Connect the machines to the library’s purpose
Step 1Read what the blank needs
Patrons can borrow books without staff assistance at the kiosks, which can reduce librarians’ checkout work. What does the blank ask us to explain? The ending The library invested in the kiosks because needs a reason for buying the machines.
- Step 2
Join the two clues
Where does the text say that saved time will go? Gupta says the kiosks will let librarians spend more time leading reading programs and community workshops. That gives us a link between what the machines do and what the library wants: less staff time at checkout makes more time available for those activities. Our prediction is more librarian time for the work Gupta names.
- Step 3
Test the proposed reasons
Which reason stays within what Gupta says? Patrons demanded newer technology, cost less to maintain, and remove late fees each add a reason the text never gives. The choice saying the kiosks free librarians connects their reduced checkout work to the programs and workshops Gupta names, without adding a new claim. Choice A.