PrepTest 118, Section 2, Question 5
A number of natural disasters in recent years—such(444 more words not shown)
It can be inferred from(28 more words not shown)
- Aa development that(23 more words not shown)
- Ba change that(24 more words not shown)
- Can approach that(21 more words not shown)
- Da movement that,(19 more words not shown)
- Ethe beginning of(26 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What does the writer think a longer-term approach would accomplish? The proposal is described as sound, so the overall assessment is favorable. But I want to check what that favorable assessment includes before accepting an answer that promises too much or invents a trade-off.
Working the answers
- ACorrect
This initially looks like a match: better-managed relief would help communities and the people trying to assist them. The final sentence supplies the support. Dialogue could make immediate aid more effective and address difficulties in the years afterward. Both recipients and providers have a stake in making that assistance work.
- B
Why must future planning reduce food or medicine now? No inevitable trade-off is stated. The final sentence says the approach can improve immediate aid as well.
- C
The first half fits, but the second half doesn't. It may be tempting to treat long-term planning as separate from today's management problems. Yet the closing sentence explicitly says the proposed dialogue could “more efficiently utilize immediate aid.” We cannot say the approach leaves short-term mismanagement unaddressed.
- D
The writer says donors' response matters, not that they will probably refuse to change and undermine the plan.
- E
Community members should have more input, but donors don't become minor players. Their response remains a condition of the proposal's success.
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