Re: The point we might still take from the First World War
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25 Aug 2020, 22:51
While reading this sentence most of us instinctively feel like choosing the words ruinous and devastating. These are words that are often used when speaking about war, and for good reason. War IS ruinous and devastating. However, these two words are trick options.
The key to this question lies in the phrase "they produce unforeseeable results.", we all know war is ruinous and devastating, this wouldn't be in line with the 'unforeseeable results' that the sentence is referring to. The only two other word pairs are (unsurprising, conventional) and (astounding, stunning). Of these two choices the second word pair makes the most sense. The first option is directly eliminated since the sentence says that war produces unforeseeable results which is the exact opposite of unsurprising and conventional.
Therefore we choose (B) and (E)