A logical completion question tests whether you can draw a conclusion from the clues before a blank. Read the words right before the blank, then put each clue in a few words so you can see how they connect. If an earlier expectation is followed by newer evidence, ask what the new facts show. Keep to the clues by stating only what those facts support. Wrong choices may sound reasonable, but a conclusion can't go beyond its clues.
Hints
- Hint 1
After however, look for what the recent bus data show.
- Hint 2
Why have the neighborhood councils asked for more pre-dawn trips? Join that purpose to the bus data to make the smallest conclusion both support.
Step-by-step
Join the clues and stay within them
Step 1Follow the turn to new evidence
The agency expected rideshare to cover most off-peak travel, but Recently, however signals a turn to new evidence. What does This suggests that ask us to do? It asks for a conclusion, and the new evidence challenges the agency's earlier expectation.
- Step 2
Connect bus use to the workers' needs
The buses before sunrise are consistently at capacity, meaning they're regularly full. What does the councils' request add? They want additional pre-dawn trips specifically to connect workers to airport shifts, so getting to work is part of the need. Full buses show strong use at that hour, and the request shows demand for more worker trips. Let's stay within the clues: there's still a need for buses to reach early shifts.
- Step 3
Set aside added facts
Do we have support for rideshare prices have recently increased or the airport plans to expand? The passage gives agency data about bus use and requests for trips, not prices or airport plans. Those claims go past the text by adding facts the clues don't give.
- Step 4
Keep the conclusion within the evidence
How broad can the ending be? A preference shared by most residents at all times of day goes beyond clues about trips before sunrise. The ending many residents rely on early-morning buses stays with demand at that hour, and jobs such as airport shifts fits the councils' request to connect workers to airport shifts. Choice D.