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Read the passage and determine where the given sentence best fits.
Sentence: However, this apparent simplicity conceals a significant administrative burden that only becomes visible once the scheme is implemented at scale.
Passage: [1] Conditional cash transfer programmes typically require recipients to meet specific conditions, such as enrolling children in school or attending health check-ups, before payment is released. [2] Proponents argue that this design is more politically palatable than unconditional transfers, since taxpayers can see a direct link between the payment and a socially desirable behaviour. [3] Verifying millions of individual conditions across scattered rural clinics and understaffed schools, often with unreliable record-keeping, can consume a large share of the programme's total budget. [4] Some governments have responded by loosening enforcement in practice, which raises the question of whether the conditions were ever more than symbolic.
Sentence: However, this apparent simplicity conceals a significant administrative burden that only becomes visible once the scheme is implemented at scale.
Passage: [1] Conditional cash transfer programmes typically require recipients to meet specific conditions, such as enrolling children in school or attending health check-ups, before payment is released. [2] Proponents argue that this design is more politically palatable than unconditional transfers, since taxpayers can see a direct link between the payment and a socially desirable behaviour. [3] Verifying millions of individual conditions across scattered rural clinics and understaffed schools, often with unreliable record-keeping, can consume a large share of the programme's total budget. [4] Some governments have responded by loosening enforcement in practice, which raises the question of whether the conditions were ever more than symbolic.
- A. Position [1]
- B. Position [2]
- C. Position [3]
- D. Position [4]
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Answer: (C) Position [3]
The sentence claims the scheme's simplicity 'conceals a significant administrative burden' that becomes visible 'once implemented at scale.' Position [3] is where the passage first describes that very burden in concrete terms (verifying conditions across clinics and schools). Placing the sentence at [3] lets 'this apparent simplicity' refer back to the political appeal described in [2], and lets the sentence introduce the burden that [3]'s original content then illustrates.
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