Vinit800HBS wrote:
AjiteshArunHi Sir,
I am a little confused with the whole answer here.
In Option C, we are basically saying that “isolation of insulin was perhaps the most significant medical breakthrough”
That doesn’t make sense.
How can “isolation of insulation” be the “most significant medical breakthrough”? Isn’t it the “insulin” that is the “most significant medical breakthrough”?
I believe answer is E
Can you please help here. Between C and E please
Hi
Vinit800HBS,
They're asking us to take a meaning call here: is it the substance itself that is the breakthrough, or is its isolation the real breakthrough?
Isolation seems to suggest that other things were removed. That is,
isolation seems to mean
extraction. That sounds like something important.
However, this is not an official question, so it's fine if you feel that the GMAT won't test what sounds a little bit like a technical term.
There is another (more reliable) meaning call we can take here:
C
... the real story behind it was not revealed for over fifty years. ← This seems reasonable. The real story behind the breakthrough was not revealed for a long time.
E
... its isolation was not revealed for over fifty years. ← This option drops the
real story bit altogether.
I think it's more likely that it was the story that was kept "secret" for 50 years (otherwise, why would the word "real" be used)? Effectively, option C says that a breakthrough happened in the 20s, but the
real story behind that breakthrough came out much later.
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