It will be through raising high the prestige of your administration by success in short-range Recovery, that you will have the
driving force to accomplish long-range Reform. On the other hand, even wise and necessary Reform may, in some respects,
impede and complicate Recovery
What is the purpose of the transitional phrase on the other hand in this excerpt?
It provides à counter-argument to the writer's main ideas,
It provides a hypothetical situation for the reader to ponder.
Eliminate
It provides additional evidence in favor of the writer's argument
It provides information about laws that are opposed to the writer's
argument

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.