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Jasonlee Posted 13 years ago
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in a Korean SAT test...
The Question: Choose a suitable word for the blank.
As the structures of our world and the conditions of certainty have yielded to an avalanche of change, the extent of our longing for stable, definitive leadership _____________________________. The fault lies not with leadership but rather with ourselves and our expectations. In the old days, leaders were supposed to make sense of chaos, to make certainty out of doubt, and to create positive action plans for the resolution of paradoxes. Good leaders straightened things out. Should chaos rear its ugly head, the leader was expected to restore normality immediately. But chaos is now considered normal, paradoxes cannot be resolved, and certainty is possible only to the level of high probability. Leadership that attempts to deliver in terms of fixing any of these can only fail. And that is exactly what is happening.
? can only be measured by our will to establish it
? has made traditional leadership more irreplaceable
? can create viable action plans for restoring normality
? has vastly reduced the probability of resolving paradoxes
? has been exceeded only by the impossibility of finding it
The answer was:
has been exceeded only by the impossibility of finding it
I don't think there is a enough clue that support the sentence, " the extent of our longing for stable, definitive leadership has been exceeded ONLY by the impossibility of finding it"
As the structures of our world and the conditions of certainty have yielded to an avalanche of change, the extent of our longing for stable, definitive leadership _____________________________. The fault lies not with leadership but rather with ourselves and our expectations. In the old days, leaders were supposed to make sense of chaos, to make certainty out of doubt, and to create positive action plans for the resolution of paradoxes. Good leaders straightened things out. Should chaos rear its ugly head, the leader was expected to restore normality immediately. But chaos is now considered normal, paradoxes cannot be resolved, and certainty is possible only to the level of high probability. Leadership that attempts to deliver in terms of fixing any of these can only fail. And that is exactly what is happening.
? can only be measured by our will to establish it
? has made traditional leadership more irreplaceable
? can create viable action plans for restoring normality
? has vastly reduced the probability of resolving paradoxes
? has been exceeded only by the impossibility of finding it
The answer was:
has been exceeded only by the impossibility of finding it
I don't think there is a enough clue that support the sentence, " the extent of our longing for stable, definitive leadership has been exceeded ONLY by the impossibility of finding it"
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jasonlee I don't think there is a enough clue that support the sentence, " the extent of our longing for stable, definitive leadership has been exceeded ONLY by the impossibility of finding it" The phrasing is unnecessarily murky in any case, but #5 is the only one that really makes semantic sense.
- jasonlee I don't think there is a enough clue that support the sentence, " the extent of our longing for stable, definitive leadership has been exceeded ONLY by the impossibility of finding it" The phrasing is unnecessarily murky in any case, but #5 is the only one that really makes semantic sense.
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jasonleeI don't think there is a enough clue that support the sentence, " the extent of our longing for stable, definitive leadership has been exceeded ONLY by the impossibility of finding it"The phrasing is unnecessarily murky in any case, but #5 is the only one that really makes semantic sense.
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I agree if I should choose only one choice among five choices.
I think there is no answer.
In order to say "only by the impossiblity of finding it", there should be a supportive idea that "only the impossiblity of finding it" can exceed and the others cannot exceed the extent of our longing for..... Am I wrong?
I think there is no answer.
In order to say "only by the impossiblity of finding it", there should be a supportive idea that "only the impossiblity of finding it" can exceed and the others cannot exceed the extent of our longing for..... Am I wrong?
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That "only" is understood to be hyperbolic. "X is exceeded only by Y" is formulaic and not to be taken literally (which is a good reason for the writer not to use it, but he did anyway). I do agree that there is no good choice, but only because the writing stinks.
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