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Jeff_999 Posted 21 years ago
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0 Here is another Sentence Completion question, 02br
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00It is an error to regard the imagination as a mainly01i00_ force; if it destroys and alters, it also _02i00 hitherto isolated beliefs, insights, and mental habits into stronly unified systems. 02br
00A visionary -----------conjures 02br
00B beneficial-----------converts 02br
00C revolutionary-------fuses 02br
00D negative-------------shunts 02br
00E synthetic--------------integrates 02br
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00I chose the choice E. But the answer is C. 02br
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00 :-s I don't get what "revolutionary force" means when regarding the imagination? And if 01i00 it 02i00 refers to imagination, shouldn't "it destroys and alters" be "it is destroyed and altered"? 02br
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0 The key is in "destroy and alters". 02br 02br 00A "revolution" always destroys and alters old things, and creates new things. 02br 00But "imagination" is not a simple revolution because it integrates/fuses old things into unified systems.

— Paco2004

  • 0 The key is in "destroy and alters".
  • 02br 02br 00A "revolution" always destroys and alters old things, and creates new things.
  • 02br 00But "imagination" is not a simple revolution because it integrates/fuses old things into unified systems.
  • 02br 02br 00paco 0-
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0 The key is in "destroy and alters". 02br
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00A "revolution" always destroys and alters old things, and creates new things. 02br
00But "imagination" is not a simple revolution because it integrates/fuses old things into unified systems. 02br
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00paco 0-
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0 Thank you, paco. 02br
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00But I am still a little confused. 02br
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00Does it mention "old things" here? Does "old things" really have something to do with "isolated beliefs, insights, and mental habits"? 02br
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00 because it integrates/fuses old things into unified systems 12blockquote
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0 Hello Jeff 02br
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00Yeah, I feel you would have a good reason in doubting what I said. 02br
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00Both "destroy" and "alter" are transitive verbs but this sentence doesn't give the objective nouns for those verbs. So when I was writing the previous message, I took this sentence as; 02br
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00[1] It is an error to re
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0 Thank you, paco. It does make sense. 02br
00Since the imagiantion is a revolutionary force, it can destroy and alter something huh. 050010id1
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It does make sense. Thank you.
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