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B2 French inference: match each claim to the museum notice

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Read a museum booking notice and test five claims. Distinguish a supported inference, a contradicted closure claim and details the notice leaves open.

In short

A sound inference keeps the scope and certainty of its evidence. Compare the whole claim with the whole passage: who is affected, which action changes and what remains unknown? In this notice, pausing new group reservations supports a narrower conclusion than closing the museum.

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Individual visitors arriving at an open museum reception and gallery.
The notice says les visites individuelles continuent. Illustration: Atelier

Museum notice · read all four sentences

Une pause dans les réservations

Pendant trois semaines, le musée suspend les nouvelles réservations de groupes1 afin de réorganiser leur accueil. Les visites individuelles continuent aux horaires habituels2. Selon la responsable3, cette pause doit permettre de revoir le parcours d’arrivée des groupes. Aucun bilan de la nouvelle organisation n’est encore disponible4.

Read it in English

For three weeks, the museum is pausing new group bookings in order to reorganise how groups are welcomed. Individual visits continue at the usual times. According to the manager, the pause is intended to allow a review of the groups’ arrival route. No review of the new organisation is available yet.

Supported, contradicted or left open?

Judge the whole claim, including its limits
ClaimStatusDecisive evidence
New group bookings are paused for three weeks.Explicitly stated.The first sentence names the action, public and duration.
The measure is targeted; it leaves individual visiting hours unchanged.Supported inference.New group bookings are paused while individual visits continue at usual times.
The museum closes to every visitor for three weeks.Contradicted.Individual visits continue.
The new arrival route has already improved group reception.Left open.The notice gives an aim and says no review is available yet.
Every group booking already accepted is cancelled.Left open.The notice concerns new group bookings; existing ones are not addressed.

The supported inference combines two sentences: one category of booking is affected while individual visits continue. It stays within that contrast. “Already improved” goes further: an aim describes what the change should achieve, while a result describes what has happened. The final sentence leaves the result open.

Keep booking and arrival words distinct

How do you check an inference in a French text?

Selon la responsable, la pause doit permettre de revoir l’accueil des groupes. L’effet de la nouvelle organisation reste à évaluer.

According to the manager, the pause is intended to allow a review of group reception. The effect of the new organisation still needs to be assessed.

This summary keeps the manager’s stated purpose and the open question about results.

Question 1No account needed
Which inference follows from the first two sentences together?

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

The restriction targets new group bookings while individual visits continue.. The contrast between new group bookings and continuing individual visits supports the targeted scope.

Question 2No account needed
What is the problem with quoting only pendant trois semaines to support “the museum closes”?

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

It supports a duration but supplies no evidence of closure.. A correct time phrase cannot establish the different action asserted in the claim.

Question 3No account needed
Does the notice establish that group reception has improved?

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

The outcome remains open; the text gives a purpose and no review.. An intended review of reception is separate from evidence that the change has worked.

Question 4No account needed
What can you conclude about bookings already accepted?

Choose one answer.

Answer and explanation

Their status is not specified in this notice.. Nouvelles limits the statement to new bookings; neither outcome for existing bookings is given.

A claim I can support

A self-review aid, not a grade. Ticks are not saved.

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