For these reasons, gold remains ________ desirable now as it ever was.

For these reasons, gold remains ________ desirable now as it ever was.

• A. so
• B. yet
• C. more
• D. as

Answer: (D)

The sentence tests using a correlative comparison to express equality of degree across time. When you want to say something is just as X now as it was in the past, you use the structure as ... as. Here, gold’s level of desirability is being compared between now and the past, so the natural form is as desirable now as it ever was. That keeps the sense that its desirability hasn’t changed. Other options don’t fit the same way. Using so would be less natural in this exact expression of equality, and yet would introduce an unnecessary contrast. More would imply a comparison of increasing degree (more desirable now than ever was) rather than equality.

The sentence tests using a correlative comparison to express equality of degree across time. When you want to say something is just as X now as it was in the past, you use the structure as ... as. Here, gold’s level of desirability is being compared between now and the past, so the natural form is as desirable now as it ever was. That keeps the sense that its desirability hasn’t changed.

Other options don’t fit the same way. Using so would be less natural in this exact expression of equality, and yet would introduce an unnecessary contrast. More would imply a comparison of increasing degree (more desirable now than ever was) rather than equality.