From ancient Rome up to the Victorian era, a training in logic and rhetoric was meant to help privileged young men recognise spurious arguments and facts. Times have changed, but contemporary Italy is determined that its youth are prepared, as their ancient co … read passage
The writer of the passage suggests that
Athe purpose of education in early times was very different from what it is now.
Bthere are similarities in the aims of education in early times and those of today.
Cthe purpose of education in early times was to help students attain a position of privilege
Das times have changed the basis of education has expanded.
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. The opening paragraph sets the two eras side by side on purpose. In ancient Rome and up to the Victorian era, a training in logic and rhetoric 'was meant to help privileged young men recognise spurious arguments and facts'. Italy today prepares its students 'as their ancient counterparts were' - the writer's own comparison - to spot fake news. Different classroom, different medium, same job: teaching the young to tell a sound argument from a rigged one.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 reverses the point. The writer stresses continuity; what changed is the *arena* - the Forum became social media - while the aim held.
* Option 3 mistakes a description for a purpose. 'privileged young men' tells us who received the training, not what it was for.
* Option 4 sounds plausible, but the passage never claims the *basis* of education widened. It describes the same skill being taught against a new target.
Final Answer: there are similarities in the aims of education in early times and those of today.
From ancient Rome up to the Victorian era, a training in logic and rhetoric was meant to help privileged young men recognise spurious arguments and facts. Times have changed, but contemporary Italy is determined that its youth are prepared, as their ancient co … read passage
The passage points out that an important difference between traditional media and social media is that
Asocial media reaches more people.
Btraditional media tries to present different points of view.
Csocial media is more balanced in its reports.
Dit is easier to spread fake stories through traditional media.
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. The third paragraph draws the contrast directly. Of legacy media: 'There is, at least in principle, an attempt to tell both sides of a story in each report.' Of social media: 'the only editor is the user herself', with algorithms serving up more of what she already likes so that 'biases are reinforced rather than countered'. The difference the writer names is the attempt at balance - present in one, absent in the other. The hedge 'at least in principle' matters, because the option claims only that traditional media *tries*.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 raises reach, which the passage never compares. Speed appears - 'the speed with which information is shared online' - but that is about how fast damage is done, not about audience size.
* Option 3 states the reverse. Balance is the property of traditional media here; social media is where biases harden.
* Option 4 also inverts the passage. Doctored images and blatant lies are described as travelling through online outlets, not through newspapers.
Final Answer: traditional media tries to present different points of view.
From ancient Rome up to the Victorian era, a training in logic and rhetoric was meant to help privileged young men recognise spurious arguments and facts. Times have changed, but contemporary Italy is determined that its youth are prepared, as their ancient co … read passage
Social media is dangerous in its ability to influence opinion in readers through
Aits choice of news items which are presented.
Bits balanced reporting of wide-ranging stories.
Cits ability to guide the reader to motivated conclusions.
Dthe creation of interest by using dubious facts.
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. The third paragraph names the mechanism precisely: 'On social media, the only editor is the user herself.' An editor's job is *selection* - deciding what appears and what does not - and here that job falls to an algorithm tuned to the user's own likes, so that 'biases are reinforced rather than countered'. The influence comes from what is put in front of the reader in the first place.
Why the others fail.
* Option 3 is the near-miss and worth pausing on. The passage does not describe social media *arguing* anyone into a conclusion; it describes a filter. The writer's remedy confirms it - young citizens 'need to consciously seek out more than they are comfortable with', a fix aimed at what reaches them, not at persuasion.
* Option 2 belongs to traditional media, and even there only 'at least in principle'. Social media is the opposite of balanced in this account.
* Option 4 describes fake news from the second paragraph. That danger is real in the passage, but the writer separates it from this one: 'The effects of social media on the formation of opinion, however, go far beyond fake news.'
Final Answer: its choice of news items which are presented.
From ancient Rome up to the Victorian era, a training in logic and rhetoric was meant to help privileged young men recognise spurious arguments and facts. Times have changed, but contemporary Italy is determined that its youth are prepared, as their ancient co … read passage
Vested interests' (Para 2) means
Ahidden purposes.
Bpopular interests.
Cself-serving intentions
Dprofitable motives.
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. The phrase sits in a sentence about protecting elections: the courses exist so that public debate 'is not hijacked by vested interests'. A vested interest is a stake someone holds in an outcome, which is what moves them to push that outcome for their own benefit - self-serving, by definition.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 borrows from a different phrase. *Hidden* purposes would be *ulterior* motives; a vested interest can be entirely open about what it wants and still distort the debate.
* Option 2 is close to the opposite. These interests are narrow and partisan, not *popular* ones widely shared.
* Option 4 is too narrow. *Profit* names only one kind of stake, and the paragraph's own example - a state running online propaganda around an election - is political rather than commercial.
Final Answer: self-serving intentions
From ancient Rome up to the Victorian era, a training in logic and rhetoric was meant to help privileged young men recognise spurious arguments and facts. Times have changed, but contemporary Italy is determined that its youth are prepared, as their ancient co … read passage
The antonym for 'spurious' (Para 1) is
Ainferior.
Bincisive.
Cdubious.
Dgenuine
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. The first sentence has students trained to recognise 'spurious arguments and facts' - arguments that are false while dressed up as sound. *Spurious* means fake or counterfeit, so the word that reverses it is *authentic*, which among these options is genuine.
Why the others fail.
* Option 3 is the trap. *Dubious* is a near-synonym of spurious, not its opposite; the stem asks for the 'antonym', and that one word decides the question.
* Option 1 misreads spurious as a judgement of *quality*. Something *inferior* is poor but real, whereas something spurious may be polished and still false.
* Option 2 is unrelated. *Incisive* means sharp or penetrating, and its opposite would be something nearer *vague*.
Final Answer: genuine
From ancient Rome up to the Victorian era, a training in logic and rhetoric was meant to help privileged young men recognise spurious arguments and facts. Times have changed, but contemporary Italy is determined that its youth are prepared, as their ancient co … read passage
The writer of the passage calls social media 'the present-day version of the Roman Forum' because it is a space for
Acarrying out political propaganda.
Bdiscussing ideas.
Cnurturing political ambitions.
Dspreading spurious arguments.
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. The Roman Forum was the public square where citizens argued things out, and the writer invokes it as the place students must be ready to 'engage meaningfully with'. The very next paragraph says what is at stake there - that 'public debate' should not be hijacked. The analogy rests on the Forum being a venue for open discussion, which is what social media now supplies.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 names an *abuse* of the space rather than its purpose. Propaganda is the hazard students are being trained against; the Forum is the arena, not the attack on it.
* Option 4 fails the same way, and doubly so - 'spurious arguments' is what the ancient training existed to *detect*, so it cannot be why the space is valued.
* Option 3 introduces political ambition, which appears nowhere. The passage is about voters forming opinions, not about candidates building careers.
Final Answer: discussing ideas.
The impatient and intolerant mother made every effort to _______.
Adomineer her children
Bdominate the child's lives
Cdenominate her children.
Ddominion her children
Pick an option to attempt
What the blank needs. The mother is 'impatient and intolerant', so the verb has to describe *ruling over* her children in a heavy-handed way, and it has to take them as its direct object. *Domineer* is exactly that verb - to assert control arrogantly and overbearingly.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 breaks on grammar rather than meaning. 'the child's lives' pairs a singular possessive with a plural noun, and the sentence has already established more than one child.
* Option 3 confuses two similar-looking words. *Denominate* means to give something a name, or to express a quantity in stated units.
* Option 4 uses a noun as though it were a verb. *Dominion* is the authority itself, not the act of exercising it.
Final Answer: domineer her children
To avoid the ecological issues, scientists and government agencies consider how sustainable development _______.
Aeffects the citizen.
Baffects the citizen.
Cis affective to the citizen
Dis affectionate to the citizen.
Pick an option to attempt
What the blank needs. The clause needs a verb: sustainable development *does something to* citizens. *Affect* is the verb meaning to influence or make a difference to something, which is precisely the sense the sentence calls for.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 is the classic pair error. *Effect* is ordinarily the noun - the result - and as a verb it means to bring about, which would have development *creating* the citizen.
* Option 3 uses *affective*, an adjective concerning emotion or feeling, not influence.
* Option 4 uses *affectionate*, meaning fond or loving, which makes no sense of a policy consideration.
Final Answer: affects the citizen.
I now have more productive time during the day because I keep the office gossips _______.
Aa foot away.
Bat arm's length
Cat bay's length
Dout of harm's way.
Pick an option to attempt
What the blank needs. The speaker gains 'more productive time' by keeping the office gossips *away*. The established idiom for deliberately holding someone at a distance is *at arm's length*.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 measures literal distance and is not an idiom. Keeping someone 'a foot away' says nothing about avoiding their influence.
* Option 3 is a blend of two real expressions, *at bay* and *at arm's length*, and exists as neither.
* Option 4 points the wrong way. *Out of harm's way* means moving someone to safety, so it would have the speaker protecting the gossips instead of avoiding them.
Final Answer: at arm's length
We need to cut down on our expenses, so that we are able to _______.
Amake ends meet
Btie up the loose ends
Cbe more philanthropic.
Dbe tax compliant.
Pick an option to attempt
What the blank needs. The sentence supplies the reason before the blank - 'cut down on our expenses' - so the blank must be the goal that spending less serves. *Make ends meet* means having just enough income to cover what has to be paid for, which is exactly what economising buys.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 is a different idiom entirely. *Tie up the loose ends* means finishing the last details of a task, with no financial sense at all.
* Option 3 runs against the sentence. Being *philanthropic* means giving money away, which cutting expenses does not enable.
* Option 4 is unconnected. Complying with tax rules is a matter of filing correctly, not of spending less.
Final Answer: make ends meet
A portion of the house collapsed because the contractor _______.
Ashort-changed places
Bcut corners
Cbit the bullet
Dmade a fortune
Pick an option to attempt
What the blank needs. The sentence gives an effect - 'A portion of the house collapsed' - and the blank must supply a cause that sits with the contractor. *Cut corners* means doing a job cheaply and carelessly, skipping the steps that cost time or money, which is precisely how a building comes to fail.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 is not an expression in English. To *short-change* someone is to give them less than they are owed; it takes a person as its object, not 'places'.
* Option 3 has the wrong sense entirely. To *bite the bullet* is to brace yourself and endure something unpleasant - a form of courage, not of negligence.
* Option 4 describes the contractor's profit, not their workmanship. Getting rich does not by itself bring a house down, so it leaves the collapse unexplained.
Final Answer: cut corners
Our team has won every single match that they have played since January. They seem to be _______.
Arolling in luck.
Brolling in money.
Con a roll.
Don a roller coaster.
Pick an option to attempt
What the blank needs. The team 'won every single match that they have played since January' - an unbroken run of success. *On a roll* is the idiom for exactly that: a streak in which things keep going your way.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 is about wealth. To be *rolling in money* is to have plenty of it, which the sentence never raises.
* Option 1 borrows the shape of that idiom without being one. English has *in luck*, and *rolling in* something you possess, but not *rolling in luck*.
* Option 4 says the opposite. A *roller coaster* is a run of sharp ups and downs, and this team has had no downs at all.
Final Answer: on a roll.
Other politicians may have claims to seniority over their peers, based upon their accomplishments and their ability to lead campaigns, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex, who is often described as merely being a junior member of the House of Representatives, has an unparalleled seniority over all of them by virtue of her prowess in social media management.
Aas merely being a junior member of the House of Representatives
Bas being a merely junior member of the House of Representatives
Cfor merely being a junior member of the House of Representatives
Das a mere junior member of the House of Representatives
Pick an option to attempt
What is wrong with the sentence. *Describe* pairs with *as*, and what follows *as* should be the thing she is described as - a noun phrase. The original wraps that noun phrase in 'merely being', a gerund that adds a word and a grammatical layer without adding meaning. Replacing it with the adjective *mere* in front of the noun says the same thing in one clean phrase.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 simply repeats the original wording.
* Option 2 keeps *being* and shifts *merely* so that it modifies the adjective *junior* - now the claim is that she is *barely* junior, which is not the intended sense.
* Option 3 changes the preposition. One is described *as* something, not 'for' it; *for* would give a reason for the describing rather than its content.
Final Answer: as a mere junior member of the House of Representatives
Although the coastal city of Kundapur was once home to a flourishing maritime trade, their economy has been dependent in more recent years on the cotton textile and sugar industries.
Ait's economy had depended in more recent years
Bits economy has in more recent years depended
Cthe economy having in more recent years depended
Dits economy has depended in more recent years
Pick an option to attempt
What is wrong with the sentence. 'the coastal city of Kundapur' is one city, so the possessive referring back to it must be singular. The sentence writes 'their economy', which has no plural noun to point at, and the fix is *its*. The tense also wants tightening: with 'in more recent years' the natural form is the present perfect, since the dependence began earlier and still holds.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 makes the possessive worse rather than better. *It's* is the contraction of *it is*, and the past perfect *had depended* would place the dependence before some other past event that the sentence never supplies.
* Option 2 keeps the right possessive but wedges the time phrase between the auxiliary and the participle, which reads awkwardly next to the clean alternative.
* Option 3 replaces the finite verb with a participle. The main clause is then left with no verb of its own, so the sentence never completes.
Final Answer: its economy has depended in more recent years
Due to the progress in the field of modern medicine and advances in nutrition and hygiene, less people die every year from infectious diseases then ever before.
Afewer people die every year from infectious diseases then ever before.
Bless people die every year from infectious diseases then ever before.
Cfewer people die every year from infectious diseases than ever before.
Devery year, fewer people die from infectious diseases than have ever before.
Pick an option to attempt
What is wrong with the sentence. Two separate errors, and the right option is the one that repairs both. *Less* is for quantities you measure; people are counted, so it must be *fewer*. And the comparison needs *than* - 'then' is about sequence in time, not comparison.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 fixes only the first error, leaving 'then ever before' uncorrected.
* Option 2 is the original sentence, carrying both errors forward.
* Option 4 does correct both words, which makes it the one worth a second look. But it rearranges the sentence to front 'every year', and ends 'than have ever before' - an auxiliary that does not match the plain present *die* it is being compared with. A correction question asks for the cleanest repair, not the most rewriting.
Final Answer: fewer people die every year from infectious diseases than ever before.
Captive breeding has helped revive wildlife such as the Eurasian beaver, the cheetah and the Arabian Onyx. Several species have been reintroduced into locations in order that the ecological balance is restored. When herbivorous bandicoots were set free in the wild, they dug the ground and redistributed dry leaves and branches, reducing the chance of bush fires. But some predators may overhunt or threaten other vulnerable species. _________.
AHence, wildlife conservationists should revive more of herbivorous animals and enrich the ecosystems.
BConservation of carnivorous animals is complex and could be dangerous to so many other vulnerable species.
CThe revival of the ecosystem therefore, depends on the eating habits of the animals introduced therein.
DTherefore, all species must be revived and allowed to live in forests regardless of their being carnivorous.
Pick an option to attempt
What the paragraph is building to. The examples are sorted by diet and nothing else. Herbivorous bandicoots turn out to help - they 'dug the ground and redistributed dry leaves and branches, reducing the chance of bush fires' - while the pivot sentence warns that 'some predators may overhunt or threaten other vulnerable species'. Plant-eaters improved their ecosystem, meat-eaters may damage it, so the conclusion the paragraph has earned is that what the reintroduced animal *eats* decides how the reintroduction goes.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 restates the final sentence instead of concluding from the paragraph. It also drops the bandicoots entirely, so half the evidence goes unused.
* Option 1 leaps from observation to policy. The paragraph reports what happens when different animals are released; it never recommends breeding more of one kind.
* Option 4 contradicts the sentence immediately before the blank. 'But' has just introduced the danger some predators pose, so a conclusion that all species should be released 'regardless' ignores it.
Final Answer: The revival of the ecosystem therefore, depends on the eating habits of the animals introduced therein.
Postponed from last year, the Tokyo Olympics are set to begin this year. The locals are wary, the athletes are anxious, training sessions are truncated, and restrictions are extensive. _________. Yet Japan, in many ways is seen as a safe choice, because of its past experience of hosting big events. It has an impeccable reputation for discipline and the ability to deliver the goods.
AThe Japanese are anxious but ready to welcome the athletes.
BThe shadow of the pandemic looms large over the Tokyo Olympics.
CThe International Olympic Committee has fully supported the Tokyo games.
DJapan is going through an economic recession and could run out of funds.
Pick an option to attempt
What the blank needs. This blank sits between two opposed halves, and the word after it decides everything. Before it: locals 'wary', athletes 'anxious', sessions 'truncated', restrictions 'extensive' - an accumulation of trouble. After it: 'Yet Japan, in many ways is seen as a safe choice'. *Yet* signals a reversal, so the blank must be the low point that the reassurance then pushes against, and it must name the one cause behind all four difficulties - the pandemic.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 is already half-reassuring. If the Japanese are 'ready to welcome the athletes', the following *Yet* has nothing left to contrast with.
* Option 3 is positive outright. Full backing from the International Olympic Committee would point the same way as Japan being a safe choice, not against it.
* Option 4 introduces money, a subject the paragraph never touches. The listed problems are all about caution and restriction, not about funds.
Final Answer: The shadow of the pandemic looms large over the Tokyo Olympics.
When we think about listening, we tend to assume that it is basically the same as hearing; this is a _________ because it leads us to believe that effective listening is _________. As a result, we make little effort to learn, or develop listening skills and thereby __________ a vital communication function.
Ablunder, spontaneous, forget
Bfallacy, impulsive, ignore
Cmistake, natural, reject
Dmisconception, instinctive, neglect
Pick an option to attempt
How the three blanks lock together. The passage describes assuming that listening 'is basically the same as hearing', then calls that assumption something, then says what the assumption makes us believe, then names the cost. Blank one needs a *wrong belief*; blank two needs a word meaning *automatic*, since hearing requires no training; blank three needs a *failure to attend to* something, matching 'we make little effort'.
*Misconception* is precisely a mistaken belief. *Instinctive* is the word for a capacity you are born with rather than one you build. *Neglect* is failing to give something the care it needs - which is what 'little effort' amounts to.
Why the others fail.
* Option 3 is the near-miss, and it dies on its third word. *Mistake* and *natural* both work, but we do not *reject* the function - rejection is a deliberate refusal, whereas the passage describes inattention.
* Option 1 fails on the first two. A *blunder* is a clumsy action rather than a false belief, and *spontaneous* means unplanned, not inborn.
* Option 2 fails on its second. A *fallacy* is a flawed piece of reasoning, which is arguable here, but *impulsive* describes someone who acts without thinking - it says nothing about a skill being innate.
Final Answer: misconception, instinctive, neglect
As vaccination rates rise and governments relax their pandemic_______ , the recovery of the event ecosystem is happening faster than expected. Event management___________ see the number of events and event attendance reaching and potentially____________ pre-pandemic levels in 2019.
Aregulations, professionals, surpassing
Bmonitoring, experts, confounding
Cresolutions, practitioners, reducing
Dsystems, masters, exceeding
Pick an option to attempt
How the three blanks lock together. Blank one is what governments 'relax' as vaccination rises - the rules imposed during the pandemic. Blank two is who in event management does the forecasting. Blank three follows 'reaching and potentially', so it must be a step *beyond* reaching, and the sentence has already told us recovery is 'happening faster than expected'.
*Regulations* are exactly what a government relaxes. *Professionals* is the standard word for the people working in a field. *Surpassing* goes past the level merely reached, which is what 'potentially' is preparing us for.
Why the others fail.
* Option 4 has a workable third word - *exceeding* means the same as surpassing - but fails on the other two. Governments do not relax 'systems', and *masters* is not how a profession describes its practitioners.
* Option 3 collapses on its third word. *Reducing* points below pre-pandemic levels, contradicting a recovery running ahead of forecast.
* Option 2 fails on its third as well. To *confound* a level is not an idea the sentence can use; the gradient here runs reaching, then beyond.
Final Answer: regulations, professionals, surpassing
This ________,__________man was actually the __________manager the company ever had.
Aassiduous, ludicrous, most able
Bassiduous, analytical, best
Cwell-groomed, assertive, compassionate
Dkind-hearted, thoughtful, friendly
Pick an option to attempt
How the three blanks lock together. Start with the third blank, because grammar settles it. the frame 'manager the company ever had' needs a superlative in front of it - only a superlative can take *the* and stand with *ever had*. That alone eliminates two options. Then the first two blanks describe the man in terms that account for his being the finest manager the company had, so both must be complimentary.
*Assiduous* (hardworking and attentive) and *analytical* are exactly such qualities, and *best* is the superlative the frame demands.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 is the one that survives the grammar test, since 'most able' is also a superlative - but its second word sinks it. *Ludicrous* means absurd, and no one is the ablest manager the company ever had *because* he was ridiculous.
* Option 3 fails the frame. *Compassionate* is not a superlative, so *the compassionate manager* cannot take *the* and stand with *ever had*.
* Option 4 fails the same test with *friendly*, and its first two words are merely pleasant rather than reasons for managerial excellence.
Final Answer: assiduous, analytical, best
The best strategy to give an ________ is to deliver it orally as well as in _________ It is also important to _________ the employee's achievements in the same manner.
Aapproval, awards, promote
Bindictment, memos, realise
Cappraisal, writing, recognise
Dappreciation, increments, advertise
Pick an option to attempt
How the three blanks lock together. The second blank is the one that decides the question. 'orally as well as in _______' is half of a fixed pair - the counterpart of speaking is *writing*, and no other option supplies it. Once that is fixed, the first blank is the thing being delivered in both modes, and the third is what you do with achievements when you name them publicly.
*Appraisal* is the formal assessment a manager gives an employee, *writing* completes the pair, and *recognise* is acknowledging achievement openly.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 breaks the pair. You cannot deliver something 'orally as well as in' awards - awards are given, not a medium of delivery.
* Option 4 breaks it the same way with increments, which are payments rather than a channel, and *advertise* is the wrong register for an employee's achievements.
* Option 2 fails on meaning before it fails on grammar. An *indictment* is a formal accusation, the opposite of what a manager delivers alongside recognition.
Final Answer: appraisal, writing, recognise
The Aravalli range is the oldest_______ geological feature anywhere in the world. These were once tall mountains, possibly as high as the Himalayas. Over hundreds of millions of years these tall mountains have been______ to low hills and ridges. Yet, these diminutive hills have been_________ to many important events in Indian history.
Aexisting, reduced, sentinel
Bprevailing, destroyed, testament
Csurviving, eroded, witness
Dcontinuing, broken down, observers
Pick an option to attempt
How the three blanks lock together. The second blank carries the weight. The mountains have been worn 'to low hills and ridges', so the verb must be one that takes *to* and names the process that wears rock down over 'hundreds of millions of years'. *Eroded* is that verb precisely. The first blank then needs a word meaning still here after all that time, and the third completes the idiom *be witness to* an event.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 is the near-miss, because *testament* would sit well in the third blank. It dies on the second: things are not *destroyed to* a smaller form - destruction removes a thing rather than reducing it to hills that still stand.
* Option 1 fails on the third. A *sentinel* stands guard, and one is not *sentinel to* an event.
* Option 4 fails on both ends. *Broken down to* suggests sudden fracture rather than slow wearing, and *observers* is a plural noun that will not follow 'these diminutive hills have been'.
Final Answer: surviving, eroded, witness
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
ANaturally, the fauna of the region varies with climatic changes.
BSome plants adapt themselves to a variety of climatic conditions.
CWhen the last tree dies in the climactic scene, the message in the movie becomes clear
DThe climactic changes from summer to winter affected the moods of the hero of the film.
Pick an option to attempt
The pair being tested. *Climatic* belongs to climate - weather over time. *Climactic* belongs to a climax - the peak of a story. The two differ by one letter and by everything else.
Option 4 puts the story word on the weather. 'The climactic changes from summer to winter' describes the turn of the seasons, which is a matter of climate, so it needs *climatic*.
Why the others are correct usage.
* Option 1 and Option 2 both use *climatic* of weather - fauna varying with it, plants adapting to it. Both right.
* Option 3 uses *climactic* of a story's peak: the last tree dies 'in the climactic scene' of the movie. Also right, and it is placed there to make Option 4 look normal by comparison.
Final Answer: The climactic changes from summer to winter affected the moods of the hero of the film.
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
AThe lives of the little princes in the large castle in the rich city were luxurious
BThe rooms were adorned with luxuriant trimmings of gold, silk and velvet.
CThey were handsome men who were distinguished by their luxuriant, golden tresses
DThe cruise ship was of medium size, but the suites were very luxurious.
Pick an option to attempt
The pair being tested. *Luxurious* means richly comfortable and expensive. *Luxuriant* means growing thickly and abundantly - it is a word for hair, foliage and undergrowth, not for price.
Option 2 uses the growth word for furnishings. 'trimmings of gold, silk and velvet' are costly rather than fast-growing, so the sentence needs *luxurious*.
Why the others are correct usage.
* Option 1 and Option 4 both use *luxurious* of expensive comfort - the princes' lives, the ship's suites. Both right.
* Option 3 is the one that shows what *luxuriant* is actually for: 'luxuriant, golden tresses' is hair growing thickly, exactly the word's proper home.
Final Answer: The rooms were adorned with luxuriant trimmings of gold, silk and velvet.
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
AThe king was under intensive pressure to protect the borders of his vast empire
BThe subject's loathing of the cruel emperor was intense
CWithout intensive study, it is difficult for most students to get admitted into any course
DThe intense debate between states led to the resolution of issues across the border.
Pick an option to attempt
The pair being tested. *Intense* describes something extreme in degree - a feeling, a heat, a pressure. *Intensive* describes something concentrated and thorough - an effort deliberately applied, like a course or a treatment.
Option 1 applies the effort word to a feeling. Pressure on a king is a matter of degree, not of concentrated method, so 'under intensive pressure' needs *intense*.
Why the others are correct usage.
* Option 2 and Option 4 use *intense* of degree - a loathing, a debate. Both right.
* Option 3 uses *intensive* of concentrated effort: 'Without intensive study' means study applied hard and thoroughly, which is the word doing its proper job.
Final Answer: The king was under intensive pressure to protect the borders of his vast empire
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
AWe called a mechanic to appraise the car before we bought it.
BThe principal called a meeting to apprise the school's governing board of the progress made by all the students in the past year
CAt the end of each practice session, the teacher trainees are expected to appraise their own performance
DThe soldiers returned to the camp to appraise the commanding officer of the enemy's location.
Pick an option to attempt
The pair being tested. *Appraise* means to assess something's value or quality. *Apprise* means to inform someone of something - and it is the one that takes the construction *apprise somebody of something*.
Option 4 uses the assessing word in the informing frame. The soldiers are reporting where the enemy is, and 'appraise the commanding officer of the enemy's location' needs *apprise*. The tell is the *of*: you appraise a thing directly, but you apprise a person *of* news.
Why the others are correct usage.
* Option 1 and Option 3 both assess - a mechanic valuing a car, trainees judging their own performance. Both right.
* Option 2 is the giveaway pattern, and it is placed there deliberately: 'apprise the school's governing board of the progress' is person, *of*, news - the exact frame Option 4 borrows with the wrong verb.
Final Answer: The soldiers returned to the camp to appraise the commanding officer of the enemy's location.
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
AThe young girl said, "I now request our chief guest to come forward for the lighting of the lamp."
BI just read that two men who took shelter under a tall tree during a thunderstorm were struck by lightning.
CI believe that skin lightning products have a lot of undesirable side effects
DThe young girl helped her mother carry some of the groceries home, thereby lightening her heavy load.
Pick an option to attempt
The set being tested. Three words, one letter apart in places. *Lighting* is illumination or the act of setting alight. *Lightning* is the flash in a storm. *Lightening* is making something lighter - in weight, or in shade.
Option 3 reaches for the storm word to describe cosmetics. Products that make skin paler are *lightening* products, so 'skin lightning products' is wrong.
Why the others are correct usage.
* Option 1 uses *lighting* for setting a lamp alight.
* Option 2 uses *lightning* for the real thing - men 'struck by lightning' in a thunderstorm.
* Option 4 uses *lightening* correctly for weight, 'lightening her heavy load', which is the very word Option 3 needed in its other sense.
Final Answer: I believe that skin lightning products have a lot of undesirable side effects
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the most logical order and enter the sequence of numbers in the space provided, for e.g., 1234.
- In the past, companies with international aspirations simply familiarised themselves with any differences in the legal system or in the procedures used in the day-to-day business of import and export.
- Modern trade, however, demands more from companies.
- Today, the company seeking international success must also understand the people who live and work in countries they deal with, how they think, behave and do business.
- To succeed in today's global market place, it is essential to learn as much as possible about the conditions in overseas markets.
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Find the opener first. Three of the four sentences point backwards. Sentence 1 begins 'In the past', which only means something once a present has been established. Sentence 2's 'however' must contradict something already said. Sentence 3's 'Today' and its 'must also understand' both lean on earlier material - *also* is an addition to something. Sentence 4 alone makes a free-standing claim, so it opens: to succeed globally you must learn about overseas markets.
Then follow the links.
* 4 to 1. Sentence 1 supplies the first, older answer to the question 4 raises - what companies once did was 'simply familiarised themselves' with legal and procedural differences. The word *simply* quietly marks that answer as insufficient.
* 1 to 2. 'Modern trade, however, demands more from companies' is the turn, and it only works after the modest past practice of sentence 1 has been described.
* 2 to 3. Sentence 3 delivers the *more* that sentence 2 promised: companies must 'also understand the people who live and work in countries they deal with'.
That gives 4, 1, 2, 3.
Final Answer: 4123
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the most logical order and enter the sequence of numbers in the space provided, for e.g., 1234.
- It mentions a video on TikTok that questioned an influencer's possible views on the Israel-Palestine crisis.
- Social media has given us the expectation that every video, every tweet needs to be irreproachable and encompass the lived experiences of the audience.
- Should celebs always have a take, asks an article in a magazine.
- 'Do you guys even care about the issue or do you care about influencers caring about the issue?'
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Find the opener first. Sentence 1 begins 'It mentions', and that *It* has no referent until the article has been named - so 1 cannot open and must follow the sentence that introduces the article. Sentence 4 is a bare quotation, which needs something to attribute it to. Sentence 3 introduces the article but is itself a specific report. Sentence 2 is the only general claim, about what 'Social media has given us the expectation' of, so it opens.
Then follow the links.
* 2 to 3. The general expectation is stated, then narrowed to the concrete question an article puts: 'Should celebs always have a take'.
* 3 to 1. Now *It* has its referent - the article - and sentence 1 says what that article mentions, a TikTok video about an influencer and the Israel-Palestine crisis.
* 1 to 4. The quotation belongs to the video just introduced: 'Do you guys even care about the issue'. It lands as the closing jab only once we know whose words they are.
That gives 2, 3, 1, 4.
Final Answer: 2314
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the most logical order and enter the sequence of numbers in the space provided, for e.g., 1234.
- In a recent incident, villagers in a tea estate were shocked to find a leopard cub in a trench.
- The cub was then taken to the area where she was discovered and reunited with her mother.
- The 12,500 leopards in India stray into villages due to their shrinking habitat.
- The wildlife vet examined and declared it to be uninjured but dehydrated.
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Find the opener first. Sentence 1 says 'In a recent incident', which presents itself as an example and therefore wants a general statement before it. Sentence 4's 'it' and sentence 2's 'The cub' both need the cub introduced first, and sentence 2's *then* explicitly marks it as a later step. Sentence 3 is the only general fact - 'The 12,500 leopards in India stray into villages due to their shrinking habitat' - so it opens.
Then follow the links.
* 3 to 1. General pattern, then the instance of it: villagers 'were shocked to find a leopard cub in a trench'.
* 1 to 4. The cub is now on stage, so *it* has a referent and the vet can examine it and declare it 'uninjured but dehydrated'.
* 4 to 2. 'The cub was then taken' - *then* places this after the examination, and reuniting her with her mother closes the story.
That gives 3, 1, 4, 2.
Final Answer: 3142