JUPEBUse of EnglishComprehension and Summary

Read the passage and answer the question. 'In many villages of Kwara State, the nearest bank is a two-hour journey away, and for years farmers kept their savings in clay pots or with the village head. The arrival of mobile money agents has changed that. A farmer can now sell yams at the weekly market, receive payment on his phone, and pay his children's school fees the same afternoon without touching a single naira note. The agents themselves are usually young people who had no work before; the commission they earn on each transaction has become a livelihood. Yet the system has its weaknesses. Network failures can lock a family out of its own money for days, and a few agents have vanished with customers' deposits.' Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

ARural users of mobile money depend on the reliability of both the network and the agents.CORRECT
BFarmers no longer sell yams at weekly markets.
CMobile money has completely replaced banks in Kwara State.
DAll mobile money agents are dishonest.
AI
Toaster Teacher
Why the answer is A, and why the others tempt you.
The two weaknesses named are network failures and agents who disappear with deposits, so users are exposed on both fronts, which supports the inference about dependence on network and agent reliability. The passage says only 'a few' agents vanished, so a claim about all of them is unfounded, it does not say banks were replaced, and it states that yams are still sold at the market.
Want this in Pidgin, Yoruba, Igbo or Hausa? Sign up free →

Practice more Use of English questions

JUPEB Use of English has thousands more questions like this — with Worked answers on every one.