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Difficulty: EasySummary: Paraphrasing, Synthesis, and Conciseness

Read the text below carefully:

'Although solar microgrids have significantly expanded access to clean electricity across semi-urban communities in Nigeria, their sustained operation is frequently jeopardized by a shortage of qualified local technicians to handle routine maintenance and repairs.'

Which of the following options provides the most concise and accurate summary of the passage?

  1. Solar microgrids improve energy access in Nigerian communities, but a shortage of skilled technicians threatens their long-term operation.Answer
  2. B
    Semi-urban communities in Nigeria now enjoy clean electricity through solar microgrids that require routine repairs and technical oversight.
  3. C
    Solar microgrids in Nigeria are failing because government agencies have neglected the training of local maintenance workers.
  4. D
    The expansion of solar microgrids in Nigeria has been halted completely due to an absence of clean electricity and qualified technicians.

Answer

Solar microgrids improve energy access in Nigerian communities, but a shortage of skilled technicians threatens their long-term operation.
The correct option succinctly preserves the central contrast of the original passage: while solar microgrids bring clean energy access, the lack of local maintenance technicians endangers their sustainability.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the core ideas in the complex sentence.
Idea 1: Solar microgrids have expanded clean electricity access in semi-urban Nigeria. Idea 2: A lack of local technicians threatens their ongoing maintenance.
Effective summary paraphrasing requires isolating the main thesis while stripping secondary wording.
2
Evaluate the options against conciseness and fidelity to the original text.
The option highlighting both expanded access and the threat posed by technical shortages captures the full meaning concisely.
A complete summary must represent both parts of the concession structure ('Although X, Y').

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Summary Paraphrasing and Conciseness
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