Directions : A grammatically correct and contextually meaningful statement has…
2021
Directions : A grammatically correct and contextually meaningful statement has been given in each of the following questions. Five similar sentences have been placed next to each statement, one of which is contextually similar in meaning to the one given in the question. Choose the most appropriate sentence that conveys the same meaning as the given statement.
Decision-makers must settle down to give the vaccination campaign wings by ensuring maximal industrial production in order to attain optimum distribution.
- A.
In order to achieve minimal dispersion, decision-makers must prolong the vaccination campaign's wings by promoting industrial production.
- B.
Decision-makers must stimulate steel production to broaden the wings of the vaccination campaign in order to achieve maximum diffusion.
- C.
In order to accomplish optimal vaccination coverage, decision-makers must encourage the manufacturing of medical equipment.
- D.
In order to obtain optimum dispersion, decision-makers must settle down to give the inoculation project wings by ensuring optimal industrial output.
- E.
Decision-makers must calm down to give the infection operation wings by delivering exceptional factory production in addition to enhancing diffusion.
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Correct answer: D
Concept
In a sentence-equivalence (paraphrase) task, the correct choice is the one that best preserves the original sentence's overall meaning: every key idea should be restated, the relationships between ideas kept, and no idea added, dropped, narrowed, or reversed. A faithful paraphrase swaps words for close synonyms while leaving the underlying message essentially unchanged. When no option is a word-for-word match, choose the one with the fewest and smallest deviations.
Application
The given sentence carries three linked ideas: (1) decision-makers must settle down/commit to support the vaccination campaign, (2) by ensuring maximal industrial production, (3) so as to attain optimum distribution. The best-matching restatement keeps all three:
"settle down to give the inoculation project wings" matches "settle down to give the vaccination campaign wings" (inoculation project ~ vaccination campaign).
"ensuring optimal industrial output" matches "ensuring maximal industrial production" (a close paraphrase; "optimal" and "maximal" output both signal scaling production up).
"in order to obtain optimum dispersion" matches "in order to attain optimum distribution" (optimum dispersion ~ optimum distribution).
Because all three ideas and their cause-purpose relationship are retained with only minor wording shifts, this is the closest paraphrase of the original.
Contrast
The version aiming at "minimal dispersion" reverses the goal: the original points to optimum (high) distribution, not the least.
The version about "steel production" narrows "industrial production" to one specific industry, changing the scope.
The version about "manufacturing of medical equipment" / "optimal vaccination coverage" substitutes a different objective and drops the production-for-distribution logic.
The version with "calm down" and "infection operation" changes both the action and the subject (an infection operation is not a vaccination campaign).