Set 6: Transitions (Advanced)
Explanation
PASSAGE
Jorge Luis Borges's fiction often explores the labyrinthine nature of knowledge and reality, featuring libraries that contain every possible book and gardens where time forks into infinite paths. His stories resist conventional narrative resolution. _______ this apparent complexity paradoxically serves clarity: by dramatizing the limits of understanding, Borges illuminates what it means to be a finite mind in an infinite universe.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
Detailed Answer Explanation
This question asks you to choose the transition that best connects two ideas. Complexity seems contrary to clarity, yet Borges achieves both. 'Nevertheless' marks this paradoxical relationship. Transitions signal the relationship between sentences or paragraphs. Determine the logical relationship (addition, contrast, cause-effect, example) and select the transition that accurately expresses it. The right transition makes the relationship between ideas crystal clear. Consider what logical connection exists: Is the second idea adding to the first? Contrasting it? Showing a result? The transition should accurately reflect this relationship.
Key Evidence:
• "resist conventional narrative resolution"
• "apparent complexity paradoxically serves clarity"
Why others are wrong: D (Cause/effect - clarity isn't a logical result of resisting resolution.), A (Comparison - the clarity is surprising given the complexity.), C (Example - the insight about clarity is an interpretation, not an example.).
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