This is question no. 3 from section 6.The answer is option C.
For first blank, “to” indicates support and it talks about “nurturing” so the first blank should be something good. For second blank, “but” indicates contrast but I am not getting the correct answer.
Can someone please explain how to solve this?
Are the blanks themselves contrasting or are the ideas overall contrasting?
Try going through again and start with identifying what the blanks are doing—what are they referring to? What function do they serve in the sentence?
From there, consider the relationship between these ideas/blanks before moving on to predict the blanks.
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The ideas are contrasting.
Idea of first blank talks about “nurturing the career of a young artist” so it should be something good. I eliminated options D and E on basis of that.
I can’t figure out the second blank.
You are still focused on finding the support, but that is step 2 of the process. Step 1 is to determine the blank’s function in the sentence. Do that for both blanks before thinking about support/contrast.
First Blank describes the dealers and the second blank describes the public’s appetite.
Awesome. So now we look for support/contrast cues. You have already done that for blank 1, noting that the dealers must be some form of “nurturing”. You mentioned the “but” as belonging to blank 2, and if you keep reading and thinking about how the blanks/ideas relate to each other—what does the public’s appetite have to do with the dealers?
The word in second blank should be such that it makes it difficult for the dealers to nurture young artists.
So, the public’s certain kind of appetite is preventing the existence of dealers who help young artists.
Exactly! There is some aspect of nurturing that makes it unfeasible to do, given with the type of appetite held by the public. What sort of appetite would make it hard for a dealer to nurture young talent?
Appetite can either be more, less or none at all. So one of them?
Yup, which one fits better–a strong appetite or a weak appetite? You will have to make a small inference to fully connect the dots.
Weak appetite means that the demand for art is less so the dealers won’t be interested in nurturing the young artists.
Strong appetite means the dealers will be busy and won’t get time to nurture young artists.
So ideally, appetite should be at optimum level.
Yes, so which of those options is the one that fits the logic of the sentence?
Only insatiable fits. So, option C.
Ok Thanks.
