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ID: LSAT-LR-036
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Main Point
Difficulty level: Medium

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It is usually said that the supermarket drove out the village shop. The dates do not fit. Village shops were closing at much the same rate through the 1950s, before the first supermarket opened anywhere in the county, and the closure figures track the spread of the private car almost exactly. What the supermarket did was give people somewhere to drive to. It did not put them in the car.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main point of the passage?

APeople who own a car do less of their shopping in the village where they live than people who have no car and must shop on foot.

BNo supermarket had opened anywhere in the county before 1960, by which time village shops had already been closing for a decade.

CVillage shops were closing at much the same rate throughout the 1950s, before any supermarket opened.

DThe spread of the private car, rather than the supermarket, accounts for the decline of the village shop; what the supermarket did was give people somewhere to drive to.

ESupermarkets played no part in the decline of the village shop, which was already well under way before the first of them opened in the county.

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