Urban planner Elena Rodriguez needed community input for the new park design, so she organized public meetings where residents' suggestions...
GMAT Craft and Structure : (Structure) Questions
Urban planner Elena Rodriguez needed community input for the new park design, so she organized public meetings where residents' suggestions ______ valuable insights about accessibility needs, leading to features that served the entire neighborhood effectively.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
dismissed
yielded
questioned
simplified
Step 1: Decode and Map the Passage
Create Passage Analysis Table
| Text from Passage | Analysis |
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| "Urban planner Elena Rodriguez needed community input for the new park design," |
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| "so she organized public meetings where residents' suggestions" |
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| "[MISSING WORD]" |
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| "valuable insights about accessibility needs," |
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| "leading to features that served the entire neighborhood effectively." |
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Provide Passage Architecture & Core Elements
Main Point: Elena's community meetings successfully generated valuable insights that led to an effective park design.
Argument Flow: Elena faced a need for community input, took action by organizing meetings, and the residents' participation produced valuable insights that ultimately resulted in successful park features for everyone.
Step 2: Interpret the Question Precisely
This is a fill-in-the-blank question asking us to choose the best logical connector. The answer must create the right relationship between what comes before and after the blank.
Step 3: Prethink the Answer
- Looking at our analysis, we see that residents' suggestions need to connect to "valuable insights about accessibility needs."
- The context shows this is positive - the suggestions led to successful park features that served everyone well.
- The missing word needs to show that suggestions produced or resulted in valuable insights.
- We need a word that indicates the suggestions were the source or cause of these insights.
dismissed
- This would mean the suggestions rejected or ignored the insights.
- Completely contradicts the positive outcome described.
yielded
- Means "produced" or "generated" - suggestions produced valuable insights.
- Creates perfect logical flow: meetings to suggestions to insights to successful features.
- Matches our prethinking about suggestions being the source of insights.
questioned
- Would mean suggestions doubted or challenged the insights.
- Does not fit the positive progression toward successful outcomes.
simplified
- Would mean suggestions made insights less complex.
- Does not show the causal relationship we need between suggestions and insights.