Carcass wrote:
A (i) ______ platform for accessing government data sets is crucial not only for researchers, statisticians, and political advisers but also for the entire population if citizens are to be informed participants in policy making. As agencies continue to collect an ever-increasing array of information in order to address fiscal and social issues, the technical resources that house that data must be (ii) ______ in kind.
Blank (i) |
Blank (ii)
|
a. proprietary |
D. capsulized |
B. static |
E. expanded |
C. scalable |
F. constringed |
Recycle the CLUE.
The first blank refers to a platform for accessing DATA.
The second blank refers to resources that house DATA.
From the sentence, what do we know about data?
Agencies continue to collect an EVER-INCREASING array of information.Thus, the clue for each blank is EVER-INCREASING.
If we recycle
ever-increasing for each blank, the result is a logical sentence:
An EVER-INCREASING platform for accessing government data sets is crucial not only for researchers, statisticians, and political advisers but also for the entire population if citizens are to be informed participants in policy making. As agencies continue to collect an ever-increasing array of information in order to address fiscal and social issues, the technical resources that house that data must be EVER-INCREASING in kind.The only answers that are close in meaning to
ever-increasing are
scalable (which means
capable of being expanded) and
expanded (which means
made larger).