Q
Medium 1 Mark
English Reading Comprehension
Passage: "After the merger was announced, several senior engineers quietly updated their resumes on professional networking sites, while management publicly assured staff that no layoffs were planned." Question: It can be inferred that the engineers —
Explanation
Updating resumes immediately after a merger announcement, despite public reassurances, suggests the engineers doubted those assurances — a reasonable inference from their actions.
Reference: Skoolyst English Grammar Series , Page 1
Hint
Compare what management said with what the engineers actually did.