Discussion
Study the following statements :
(a) In his private life Gagarin was a poet.
(b) In the experimental darkroom there was no air.
Answer: B
The key says (b) is right and (a) is wrong. I could not make (b) agree with the passage word for word.
(a) is wrong: Gagarin recited half-remembered poetry to himself, but the passage never says he was a poet. For (b), Gagarin describes the room as 'no sound, not even the slightest rustle. No movement of the air'. The key reads this as 'no air', which is what the statement says.
Strictly the passage says there was no movement of the air, not that there was no air, and a room with no air could not have held him for long periods. On that strict reading both statements would be wrong, which is another option. The explanation follows the official key; the reader should note that (b) is a loose paraphrase of the passage.
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