PrepTest 123, Section 1, Question 14
The following passage was written in the mid-1990s.(458 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(9 more words not shown)
- AWhile some later(31 more words not shown)
- BInvestors in renewable(28 more words not shown)
- CRenewable energy sources(33 more words not shown)
- DThough renewable energy(38 more words not shown)
- ECertain types of(32 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We've already predicted the main point: don't just deliver the equipment; help local people develop the ability to build and run the system. Now we're looking for some version of that idea in the answers.
What we’re looking for
Brazil's project saves money at the start but misses the chance to develop local production. India's project builds that capacity and can expand. The answer should capture that lesson about successful implementation, not merely report that one project went better.
Working the answers
- A
India's project did begin earlier and did better. But this makes earlier versus later projects the organizing contrast. Local involvement appears in the answer, yet the lesson isn't that earlier projects were generally better: it's that building local capacity improves a project's prospects.
- B
Financial returns and health benefits both matter in the discussion, but we aren't advising investors how to weigh them. We're explaining what helps a renewable-energy project become sustainable.
- C
This reverses the lesson. Continuing dependence on costly foreign expertise holds Brazil back; developing the ability to produce equipment locally improves India's prospects.
- DCorrect
This captures renewable energy's promise and the condition illustrated by the projects: “local involvement at all levels.” Brazil misses an opportunity to develop local production; India develops it and expands profitably. Local participation is part of making the technology work over the long term.
- E
Brazil used solar and India used wind, but that doesn't establish that wind is the better technology. The identified difference is local participation, not an inherent advantage of wind over solar.
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