Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England . For the vast majority of yeomen in the country, it is vitally important to store hard fruit through the whole year. To do this, select faultless apples and pears without a bruise or other mark, and leave a length of stalk on them. Place them carefully in your fruit house or "hoard house” on clean dry straw, make sure they are not touching each other, and turn them very carefully every month to avoid their collecting moisture. And, most important, keep the door to the fruit house shut, "lest children make havoc there.” Which detail from the text best supports the inference that one bad apple can spoil all the others?
Answer
A
. . . it is vitally important to store hard fruit through the whole year.
B
Place them carefully in your fruit house or “hoard house” on clean dry straw . . .
C
. . . make sure they are not touching each other . . .
D
. . . turn them very carefully every month to avoid their collecting moisture.
Explanation
The instruction to make sure the apples and pears are not touching each other suggests that a problem with one piece of fruit could affect nearby fruit. Keeping them apart helps prevent that spread, supporting the inference that one bad apple can spoil the others. Choice C is “make sure they are not touching each other.”
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