gmatjeet wrote:American executives, unlike their Japanese counterparts, have pressure to show high profits in each quarterly report, with little thought given to long-term goals.
a) have pressure to show
b) are under pressure to show
c) are under the pressure of showing
d) are pressured toward showing
e) have pressure that they should show
oA: B
Please provide detailed reasoning on how to eliminate options
B) are under pressure to show
Here's how I thought through this one...
1. What's the split? "are/pressure" vs. "have pressure"
2. Which split can I eliminate?
> Okay, you
have pressure
on something, not "to" or "that"
> Eliminate "have pressure" split, i.e., Eliminate A and E!
3. Out of B,C and D, which two can I definitely eliminate?
> "are pressured toward showing" -- ambiguous. Are they pressured or not? This seems to change the meaning of the sentence. Eliminate D!
> "are under the pressure of..." Hmm, are the Am. execs under a Rock?? As arashyazdiha pointed out, the way this is worded, you expect the "subject" of the sentence to come right after "of".
>> For example, Am. execs ... are are under the pressure of "the sarbanes-oxley" law.
> Okay, Eliminate C
4. Answer, by POE, is
(B)
> B is a valid idiom too! "under pressure to.."
This approach may not work for all SC problems. However, I find that the "split, re-split strategy" (<insert credit here>) works best for most SC problems (at least for me).
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