Question

Soaking dried beans overnight before cooking them reduces cooking time. However, cooking without pre-soaking yields plumper beans. Therefore, when a bean dish's quality is more important than the need to cook that dish quickly, beans should not be pre-soaked.
Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument?

• A. Plumper beans enhance the quality of a dish
• B. There are no dishes whose quality improves with faster cooking
• C. A dish's appearance is as important as its taste
• D. None of the other ingredients in the dish need to be pre-soaked

Answer 1

The correct option is A Plumper beans enhance the quality of a dish

According to the argument, beans are plumper when they are prepared without pre -soaking . So, when the quality is more important then pre-soaking should be avoided . The assumption here is that plumper beans are of better quality. Thus , option (a) is correct.