In the following question, two separate sentences with a few highlighted words have been given. Answer the questions, based on the given sentences.
(A) The first wave of the pandemic attempts (A) the world revealed (B) the vulnerabilities in the global (C) healthcare system.
(B) Hospitals have been replenish (D) for nearly a year, and no throughout (E) have been made to swamped (F) medical oxygen supplies.
You are required to choose the most appropriate connector from the given options which can be used to connect both sentences to form a coherent paragraph.
Correct Answer :
yet
Solution :
To determine the most appropriate connector to link sentence (A) and sentence (B) coherently, let us first examine the meaning and relationship of both sentences. Note that the highlighted words in the sentences themselves may be misplaced (word swap/context errors), but we need to connect the core ideas of the two sentences.
Sentence (A) talks about the first wave of the pandemic revealing vulnerabilities in the global healthcare system (implying a massive crisis, lack of preparedness, and initial shock).
Sentence (B) points out that despite hospitals being swamped for nearly a year (a long duration of the crisis), no attempts have been made to replenish medical oxygen supplies.
Let us analyze the logical relationship between the two statements:
- The first wave highlighted critical weaknesses in healthcare.
- One would expect that over the course of a year, efforts would be made to address these weaknesses (like replenishing oxygen supplies).
- Instead, sentence (B) states that hospitals have been swamped for a year and still no attempts to replenish oxygen have been made.
- This represents a strong contrast or concession. The action expected in response to the revealed vulnerabilities did not happen.
Now let us evaluate the given options:
- "since": Used to indicate cause/reason or time. It does not fit because sentence (B) is not the cause of sentence (A).
- "then": Indicates sequence in time or logical consequence, which does not capture the contrast.
- "for": Used as a conjunction meaning "because". The lack of replenishment is not the reason why the first wave revealed vulnerabilities.
- "even": Cannot act as a standalone coordinating or subordinating conjunction between these two clauses in this manner.
- "yet": Used as a coordinating conjunction to join two contrasting ideas, meaning "but at the same time" or "nevertheless". It perfectly connects the fact that the pandemic exposed vulnerabilities, yet (despite this exposure and a year's time) no actions were taken to fix them.
Therefore, the correct connector is yet.
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