When Ben and his friend Minh first started going to the ice cream shop at the mall, they made friends with a waitress named Alissa who worked there. They went there often, and one day Ben said to Minh, "I'm hungry. Let's get ice cream at the mall." Minh agreed, but when they arrived, they saw that Alissa was not working. Ben was surprised when Minh didn't order any ice cream and wanted to leave soon after they arrived. An assumption Ben seemed to have made was that Minh:
A) really wanted to get ice cream and did not go just to see Alissa.
B) liked the kind of ice cream served at the ice cream shop.
C) really just wanted to go to the mall and didn't care about ice cream very much.
D) is actually a good friend of Ben's and wanted to go to the ice cream shop with him.

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Ben assumed Minh wanted ice cream for its own sake, not just to see Alissa, which is suggested by Minh's lack of interest in ordering once they realized Alissa wasn't there.

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