Explanation
Reading the prompt: it's relatively easy to get confused
near the end of the prompt in this question. The last sentence mentions "two
key economic outcomes" and "two kinds of financial incentives"--what do these
refer to? One technique is to use the
answer choices simply to understand a difficult prompt. Struggling
test-takers do this all the time: they jump to the answer choices long before
they're ready, because they don't know what else to do. We won't do that, but
when we are having trouble understanding the prompt, we can use the answer
choices...and then, we go back up and
we'll still attempt to create a filter heading back down again to evaluate the
answer choices.
Creating a filter: glancing at (A) and (B), we get the
idea that "the two kinds of financial incentives" mentioned in the last
sentence are 1) to invest and 2) to be an entrepreneur. That makes sense, because
those two things are somewhat opposite and hence could be "balanced," as the
prompt says. Having cleared that up makes it easier to see that the "two key
economic outcomes" are accelerated personal investment levels and the growth of
production capacity. Now we are able to form a filter, a brief summary of the
last sentence: "the country has to encourage both investment and
entrepreneurship in a balanced way."
Applying the filter: on first pass with this summary
filter, (A) is in, (B) is out, (C) is out, (D) is out, and (E) is out. All of
them except (A) have a miswording of the basic answer, which is to balance the
two personal actions, investing and entrepreneur-ing.
For example, (E) sounds good until the end, where it says both incentives drive
personal investment. The correct answer is (A).
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