Bananas, apples, and avocados continue to ripen after they are picked. Cherries, blackberries, and grapes do not. The difference between climacteric fruits (the former) and non-climacteric fruits (the latter) matters to fruit growers and greengrocers, who must … read passage
The main point the writer makes is that fruit-bearing plants
Aof all kinds need to be studied, not just those consumed by humans.
Band other plant species' propagation cannot be studied accurately.
Care better protected than other plant species and can propagate easily.
Dhave the same problems in propagation as other plants.
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. The second paragraph places fruit inside a problem that is not unique to fruiting plants at all: fruits 'exist to solve a problem faced by all plants' - the question of how best to spread their progeny around. Sugary pulp is one answer to that shared problem, and climacterism is a refinement of the answer.
Everything after that sentence - the ground-dweller versus tree-dweller split, the colour evidence, the sample of 80 varieties - is built on it. The writer's central claim is therefore that fruit-bearing plants are wrestling with the same dispersal problem every plant faces.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 is the closing suggestion, not the main point. The final paragraph does recommend analysing wild fruits, but that is a limitation of this particular study and a direction for future work.
* Option 2 overstates. The passage says the origins remain unclear, not that propagation cannot be studied accurately - it goes on to report a study that found a strong correlation.
* Option 3 introduces a comparison the passage never makes. Nothing here ranks fruit-bearing plants as better protected than other species.
Final Answer: have the same problems in propagation as other plants.
Bananas, apples, and avocados continue to ripen after they are picked. Cherries, blackberries, and grapes do not. The difference between climacteric fruits (the former) and non-climacteric fruits (the latter) matters to fruit growers and greengrocers, who must … read passage
The study has been based on
Afruits that are consumed by humans.
Bfruits available at the University of Tokyo.
Cwild fruits consumed by animals.
Dfruits sourced by greengrocers.
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. The closing paragraph names the study's limitation outright: the researchers 'looked at fruits eaten by people.' That is precisely why the authors worry the sample is contaminated - thousands of years of selective breeding for traits humans like may have drowned out the natural-selection signal.
So the 80 varieties were drawn from the fruits humans eat.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 confuses the researchers with their material. The University of Tokyo is where the two biologists work; the passage never says the fruits came from there.
* Option 3 inverts the timeline. Wild fruits appear only as what should be studied next, which is the opposite of what was studied.
* Option 4 borrows a word from the first paragraph. Greengrocers are introduced as people who care about ripening, not as the source of the sample.
Final Answer: fruits that are consumed by humans.
Bananas, apples, and avocados continue to ripen after they are picked. Cherries, blackberries, and grapes do not. The difference between climacteric fruits (the former) and non-climacteric fruits (the latter) matters to fruit growers and greengrocers, who must … read passage
Which one of the following options means 'arboreal' and 'camouflage'?
Atree-dwelling and disguised
Bground-dwelling and hidden
Cprotected and fortified
Dcovered and variegated
Pick an option to attempt
Both words can be read straight off the passage.
*Arboreal:* the second paragraph contrasts 'ground-dwelling animals' with distributors that are 'arboreal or aerial, and so can feed on unfallen fruit'. An animal that reaches fruit still hanging on the plant lives up in it - tree-dwelling.
*Camouflage:* the fourth paragraph says climacteric fruits 'are generally better camouflaged', and that this 'makes them harder to spot until they have fallen to the ground.' Being harder to spot is being disguised.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 gets 'arboreal' exactly backwards - ground-dwelling is the category the passage sets *against* arboreal.
* Option 3 describes defence rather than habitat or concealment; neither word means protected or fortified.
* Option 4 is the closer trap. 'Variegated' means patched with several colours, which fits the vivid reds and purples of non-climacteric fruits that *advertise* their presence - the opposite of camouflage.
Final Answer: tree-dwelling and disguised
Bananas, apples, and avocados continue to ripen after they are picked. Cherries, blackberries, and grapes do not. The difference between climacteric fruits (the former) and non-climacteric fruits (the latter) matters to fruit growers and greengrocers, who must … read passage
The origins of the distinguishing characteristics between the two types of fruits, climacteric and non-climacteric are
Anebulous in spite of research.
Bclear now as a result of this research.
Ctrivial at this stage.
Ddependent on researcher observation.
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. The first paragraph ends: 'But how those differences originally came about remains unclear.' Nebulous is simply the word for that - hazy, not yet pinned down.
Crucially, the rest of the passage does not lift the haze. It reports a proposal and a correlation, then concedes in the final paragraph that the sample may be contaminated and that wild fruits still need analysing. The origins remain unclear *in spite of* the research described.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 claims the research settled the matter. What the study produced is a 'suggestively strong correlation' and a hypothesis - and its authors themselves call for a further step.
* Option 3 misjudges the stakes. The difference matters commercially and was worth an 80-variety study, so it is not treated as trivial.
* Option 4 misreads the limitation. The weakness identified is the sample - fruits shaped by human breeding - not the researchers' powers of observation.
Final Answer: nebulous in spite of research.
Bananas, apples, and avocados continue to ripen after they are picked. Cherries, blackberries, and grapes do not. The difference between climacteric fruits (the former) and non-climacteric fruits (the latter) matters to fruit growers and greengrocers, who must … read passage
According to the passage, the interest in the difference between climacteric and non-climacteric fruits is in the
Acommercial context.
Benvironmental context.
Cgastronomical context.
Dpublic health context.
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. The opening paragraph names both who cares and why: the distinction 'matters to fruit growers and greengrocers, who must make sure their wares are in tip-top condition when they arrive at the marketplace.'
Growers, greengrocers, wares, marketplace - four commercial terms in a single sentence. The stake being set up is trade.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2: animals and seed dispersal appear as the evolutionary *explanation* for the difference, not as an environmental concern arising from it.
* Option 3: taste enters only as the mechanism - sugary pulp as 'a tasty meal' to recruit animals - never as culinary interest.
* Option 4: nothing in the passage connects ripening behaviour to human health.
Final Answer: commercial context.
Bananas, apples, and avocados continue to ripen after they are picked. Cherries, blackberries, and grapes do not. The difference between climacteric fruits (the former) and non-climacteric fruits (the latter) matters to fruit growers and greengrocers, who must … read passage
Consider the following two Findings: (i) Non-climacteric fruits tend to have vivid colours. (ii) Thirty-six varieties of climacteric and non-climacteric fruits were eaten predominantly either by ground-dwellers, or by arboreal or aerial animals respectively. According to the passage,
AFinding (i) provides main evidence and Finding (ii) provides supplementary evidence confirming the hypothesis of the biologists.
BBoth Findings (i) and (ii) provide supplementary evidence confirming the hypothesis of the biologists.
CBoth Findings (i) and (ii) provide main evidence confirming the hypothesis of the biologists.
DFinding (i) provides supplementary evidence and Finding (ii) provides main evidence confirming the hypothesis of the biologists.
Pick an option to attempt
Locate each finding, then read the sentence that introduces it.
Finding (ii) is the study's own count. The third paragraph reports that 15 of the 19 varieties eaten principally by ground-dwellers were climacteric, and 21 of the 26 eaten by arboreal or aerial animals were non-climacteric. That is 15+21=36 varieties behaving exactly as the hypothesis predicts - the thirty-six of the Finding. The next paragraph calls it 'a suggestively strong correlation.' This tally *is* the test of the idea, so it carries the case.
Finding (i) arrives with its role announced: 'And the authors' hypothesis is fortified by other evidence. They point out that non-climacteric fruits tend to have vivid colours'. Evidence that fortifies a case already made is supporting it, not carrying it.
So (ii) is the main evidence and (i) supplements it.
Why the others fail. Option 1 swaps the two roles. Option 3 promotes the colour observation to main evidence, which the word 'fortified' rules out. Option 2 demotes the correlation to a supporting detail, leaving the hypothesis with nothing actually testing it.
Final Answer: Finding (i) provides supplementary evidence and Finding (ii) provides main evidence confirming the hypothesis of the biologists.
On the 14th of May 1796, vaccine matter was taken from the hand of a dairy maid, Sarah Nelmes, and inserted by two superficial incisions in the arms of James Phipps, a healthy boy of about eight years of age. The boy went through an attack of cowpox as expecte … read passage
Local reaction' refers to
Aadverse reaction caused by injections.
Badverse comments and protests by people from that location.
Cencouraging reaction from local doctors.
Dencouraging reaction from the people of the locality.
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. In the fourth paragraph the child 'was in a run-down condition, and the vaccine material might very well have provoked a rather serious local reaction.'
Read 'local' anatomically, not geographically: it means at the site of the inoculation. And the whole sentence is about danger - the lines around it say the fate of vaccination 'hung in the balance' and that 'good luck was in its favour', which only makes sense if the thing being risked was harm to the patient.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 reads 'local' as a place and 'reaction' as public opinion. Organised opposition does appear in the passage, but a paragraph later, and it comes from London physicians rather than from a locality.
* Options 3 and 4 both make the reaction a welcome one. The passage frames it as a hazard that was narrowly avoided, not a reception to be pleased about.
Final Answer: adverse reaction caused by injections.
On the 14th of May 1796, vaccine matter was taken from the hand of a dairy maid, Sarah Nelmes, and inserted by two superficial incisions in the arms of James Phipps, a healthy boy of about eight years of age. The boy went through an attack of cowpox as expecte … read passage
Jenner received a lot of recognition from medical bodies because
Afortunately, only a few colleagues were illogical enough to reject him.
Bmost of his colleagues realised the effectiveness of his work.
CDr. Watt could not prove that vaccination caused measles.
Dmedical societies across Europe regularly engaged in tokenism.
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. The final paragraph pairs two facts: 'only a few colleagues were so illogical,' and the appreciation of his contemporaries can be measured by 'the number of honours, diplomas, addresses and communications from public bodies and distinguished individuals which he received.'
If only a handful dissented, the profession at large accepted the work - and the honours followed from that acceptance.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 mistakes context for cause. The small number of objectors is background; the recognition came from the many who saw that the method worked, not from the scarcity of critics.
* Option 3 invents a link. Dr Watt's claim about measles is recorded, but the passage never says it was refuted, nor connects it to the honours.
* Option 4 reads the honours as empty ceremony. Election to Europe's leading medical and scientific societies is presented as genuine esteem.
Final Answer: most of his colleagues realised the effectiveness of his work.
On the 14th of May 1796, vaccine matter was taken from the hand of a dairy maid, Sarah Nelmes, and inserted by two superficial incisions in the arms of James Phipps, a healthy boy of about eight years of age. The boy went through an attack of cowpox as expecte … read passage
According to the author, the main idea in the passage is
Ascientific breakthroughs are more likely to happen in major urban centres.
Bdocumentation is key for disseminating science.
Cto explore the causes for vaccine hesitancy.
Dchance and risk play a part in the success of scientific experiments.
Pick an option to attempt
Look at the shape of the whole passage. It is a chain of near-misses. Jenner inoculates an eight-year-old and then deliberately exposes him to smallpox. He spends three months in London without finding a single volunteer. The trial that finally rescues the method is performed on a child already weakened by chronic hip-joint disease, who might easily have reacted badly.
The author draws the moral himself: 'In a way, the fate of vaccination hung in the balance and good luck was in its favour.' Risk taken, luck holding - that thread runs through the passage.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 is contradicted by the events. London is where Jenner failed to find volunteers; the work itself was done in Gloucestershire.
* Option 2 promotes a detail. He did prepare a pamphlet, but the passage spends its length on outcomes and reception, not on the role of documentation.
* Option 3 confuses reporting with investigating. Ingenhouz and Watt are described as opponents, but the passage never asks what caused their hesitancy.
Final Answer: chance and risk play a part in the success of scientific experiments.
On the 14th of May 1796, vaccine matter was taken from the hand of a dairy maid, Sarah Nelmes, and inserted by two superficial incisions in the arms of James Phipps, a healthy boy of about eight years of age. The boy went through an attack of cowpox as expecte … read passage
On returning from London, Dr. Jenner was disappointed because
Ahis friends responded negatively to the vaccine.
Bhe was unsuccessful in replicating the experiment due to lack of volunteers.
Chis friends would not agree with his findings on the vaccine.
Dthe vaccine did not receive any recognition, rewards, or a patent.
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. The third paragraph gives the reason in the sentence immediately before the disappointment: 'He remained in London for nearly three months without being able to find anyone who would submit to vaccination. Jenner went back to Gloucestershire, disappointed.'
He went to London to demonstrate the result again in front of others. Without a single person willing to be vaccinated, there was no demonstration to give.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 misplaces the obstacle. His friends are the people he introduced the subject to, and it was material left with them that Cline later used - hardly a negative response.
* Option 3 invents a disagreement. Nothing suggests his friends disputed the findings; what he lacked was volunteers, not agreement.
* Option 4 is the wrong part of the story. Honours arrive in the closing paragraph, and a patent is never mentioned at all.
Final Answer: he was unsuccessful in replicating the experiment due to lack of volunteers.
On the 14th of May 1796, vaccine matter was taken from the hand of a dairy maid, Sarah Nelmes, and inserted by two superficial incisions in the arms of James Phipps, a healthy boy of about eight years of age. The boy went through an attack of cowpox as expecte … read passage
Twenty-three cases were put on record with the objective to explain very clearly that
Athe cowpox vaccine protected the patients from another deadly disease.
BDr. Jenner was ready to go to any extent, even testing the vaccine on his own son.
Caccidental contraction of cowpox happens among dairy workers.
Dit is beneficial to immunity if we work with cows and horses.
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. The second paragraph states the purpose outright: Jenner 'had succeeded in demonstrating the protective quality of the cowpox virus against smallpox, by putting on record details of 23 cases'. The paragraph then closes by naming the same conclusion again - he 'demonstrated conclusively that the cowpox protects the human constitution from the infection of smallpox'.
The record was therefore assembled to establish one thing: that catching the milder disease shields a person from the deadlier one.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 mistakes an entry for the purpose. Jenner's eleven-month-old son is one of the 23 cases, included as evidence rather than as a display of his resolve.
* Option 3 describes how the sample arose, not what it was meant to prove. Sixteen cases did occur accidentally among dairy workers, but that is the origin of the data.
* Option 4 generalises far beyond the claim. The passage credits cowpox specifically, never suggesting that working with cows and horses is good for immunity at large.
Final Answer: the cowpox vaccine protected the patients from another deadly disease.
On the 14th of May 1796, vaccine matter was taken from the hand of a dairy maid, Sarah Nelmes, and inserted by two superficial incisions in the arms of James Phipps, a healthy boy of about eight years of age. The boy went through an attack of cowpox as expecte … read passage
By calling the vaccine unjustifiable, Dr. Ingenhouz meant that vaccination
Amade people sick and failed to provide general immunity.
Bwas an injustice against those on whom it was tested.
Cwas being carried out without any legal basis.
Dactually spread the disease to a large population.
Pick an option to attempt
The anchor. Ingenhouz's charge is quoted in full: vaccination was 'a dangerous innovation, absolutely unjustifiable, and communicated a disease without protecting against any other'.
Unpack the two halves of that accusation. 'Communicated a disease' means the procedure gave people an illness. 'Without protecting against any other' means it bought them nothing in exchange. *Unjustifiable* is the verdict those two halves produce: a treatment that harms and does not protect has no case to make for itself.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 reads 'unjustifiable' as an ethical complaint on behalf of the test subjects. Consent is never raised anywhere in the passage.
* Option 3 turns it into a legal objection. No law, licence or regulation appears in the text.
* Option 4 inflates the scale. The accusation concerns what the vaccine did to the person receiving it, not the spread of disease through a population.
Final Answer: made people sick and failed to provide general immunity.
Some of the best spies take the guise of innocuous secretaries or researchers and are able to send large amounts of information to their heads of espionage, as they are ________________________.
Ahiding in plain sight
Bhiding documents very craftily
Chiding from watchful eyes
Dhiding within everyone's sight
Pick an option to attempt
What the sentence needs. The spies take 'the guise of innocuous secretaries or researchers' - they are visible, ordinary and unremarkable, and that ordinariness is precisely why nobody examines them. The blank needs an idiom for concealment achieved *through* visibility rather than by disappearing.
'Hiding in plain sight' is that idiom: the thing is fully on view, and looking unremarkable is the disguise.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 changes the object. The sentence is about how the spies themselves escape suspicion, not about where they conceal paperwork.
* Option 3 says the opposite. To hide *from* watchful eyes is to stay out of view, whereas these spies succeed by remaining in it.
* Option 4 is the near-miss, gesturing at the right idea in the wrong words. The fixed English phrase is 'in plain sight', and idioms do not accept substitutions.
Final Answer: hiding in plain sight
Ever since Girish won the prestigious Infosys prize, he has been behaving _______________________.
Aambitiously
Bcondescendingly
Coverly
Dcontroversially
Pick an option to attempt
What the sentence needs. 'Ever since' dates a change to the moment of the prize: winning it altered how Girish treats people. The blank takes an adverb describing that changed manner.
*Condescendingly* - talking down to others, treating them as inferiors - is the behaviour a sudden rise in status is proverbially said to produce.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 describes a drive towards a goal, not a manner adopted after reaching one. Ambition also characterises his aims rather than his conduct towards colleagues.
* Option 3 is not a complete adverb. 'Overly' must modify another word, so *behaving overly* is simply ungrammatical - the sentence would need 'overly' plus something for it to qualify.
* Option 4 would require him to be doing something disputed or divisive, and nothing in the sentence supplies a controversy.
Final Answer: condescendingly
Flying this simple aeroplane is a ________________ for the experienced pilot.
Aleft-handed game
Bpiece of cake
Cleft-handed sport
Dslice of cake
Pick an option to attempt
What the sentence needs. Both halves of the sentence point the same way - a *simple* aeroplane, an *experienced* pilot - so the blank must mean effortless. It calls for the standard English idiom for a task that takes no effort.
*A piece of cake.*
Why the others fail.
* Options 1 and 3 are not English idioms at all. 'Left-handed' carries no sense of ease in standard usage.
* Option 4 is the real trap: the right image, the wrong word. 'Slice' is a perfectly good synonym for 'piece' everywhere in English except inside this phrase. An idiom is a fixed form, and swapping a word for its synonym breaks it.
Final Answer: piece of cake
For the past three decades, this chain of coffee shops has been committed to building a culture where everyone is welcome. They are an ally to the LGBTQ community, and this is just one instance of their ________________.
Ainclusivity and diversity
Bmindfulness and objectivity
Cdiscriminatory practices
Ddiscretionary practices
Pick an option to attempt
What the sentence needs. Two clues sit in the sentence. The company builds 'a culture where everyone is welcome', and its LGBTQ allyship is offered as 'just one instance of' something broader. So the blank must name the wider value that both the open culture and the allyship are examples of.
*Inclusivity and diversity* names exactly that pairing.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 supplies unrelated virtues. Mindfulness and objectivity are qualities, but neither follows from welcoming people or standing as an ally.
* Option 3 reverses the meaning outright, contradicting 'everyone is welcome' in the very same sentence.
* Option 4 is a sound-alike planted to catch a hurried reader. 'Discretionary' means left to one's own judgement; it is unrelated to 'discriminatory' and equally unrelated to acceptance.
Final Answer: inclusivity and diversity
Leela is always nasty and inconsiderate with her colleagues; now that she has a rude superior, she is getting _____________.
Aa spoon of her own medicine
Ba taste of her own medicine
Can unpleasant medicine dose
Da dose of bitter medicine
Pick an option to attempt
What the sentence needs. Leela dispenses nasty treatment; a rude superior now serves the same back to her. English has one fixed idiom for precisely this reversal.
*A taste of her own medicine.*
Why the others fail. All three remaining choices describe the idea in words the idiom does not use. 'A spoon of her own medicine' keeps the possessive but swaps the noun. 'An unpleasant medicine dose' and 'a dose of bitter medicine' both drop *her own* - and that phrase is the whole point, since what returns to Leela has to be recognisably her own conduct. Because an idiom is fixed, a paraphrase of it is wrong however close the sense.
Final Answer: a taste of her own medicine
She _______________________ her classmates because she comes from a very rich, aristocratic family.
Alooks up to
Blooks towards
Clooks away from
Dlooks down on
Pick an option to attempt
What the sentence needs. The reason clause does the work: 'because she comes from a very rich, aristocratic family'. Wealth and rank are being offered to explain an attitude, so the blank must express that she holds her classmates beneath her.
*Looks down on* carries exactly that contempt.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 is the precise reverse - to look up to someone is to admire them, which her aristocratic background is not being used to explain.
* Option 2 is directional rather than attitudinal. 'Looks towards' says where her attention falls, not what she thinks of the people there.
* Option 3 describes avoidance. Turning away from her classmates is not the same as despising them, and avoidance does not follow from social superiority.
Final Answer: looks down on
I still have two more difficult exams left, but I'm trying to __________________; after these I won't have any more for a year!
Alook on the bright side
Bthink upon the sunny side
Clook forward to the bright side
Dthink about the sunny side
Pick an option to attempt
What the sentence needs. The structure is concessive: two difficult exams remain, 'but' - and then a clear year without any is offered as the compensating thought. The blank needs the idiom for deliberately attending to the good part of a bad situation.
*Look on the bright side.*
Why the others fail. The other three reach for the same image and misassemble it. The fixed phrase joins the verb 'look' to the preposition 'on' and the noun 'bright side'. 'Think upon' and 'think about' replace the verb, 'look forward to' replaces the preposition and shifts the sense to anticipation, and 'sunny side' is not the noun English uses here - it survives almost solely in *sunny side up*, of eggs.
Final Answer: look on the bright side
If I had known that you needed to go to the airport yesterday, I could drive you there.
Ashould have driven you there.
Bwould have driven you there.
Cwould drive you there.
Dshould drive you there.
Pick an option to attempt
What is wrong with the sentence. The if-clause is 'If I had known' - past perfect - and it reports something that did not happen: the speaker did not know. That is the third conditional, the pattern English uses for unreal situations in the past, and it requires *would have* plus a past participle in the main clause.
'Could drive' is present in force, so it collides both with the past-perfect if-clause and with 'yesterday'. Repairing the pattern gives *would have driven you there*.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 is grammatical English but changes the meaning. 'Should have driven' expresses reproach - an obligation the speaker failed to meet - rather than the consequence a different past would have produced.
* Option 3 is the second conditional. 'Would drive' pairs with 'if I knew' and points at the present, which 'yesterday' rules out.
* Option 4 offers present advice, leaving both the tense and the sense of the sentence unresolved.
Final Answer: would have driven you there.
The Principal and professors are authorized to sanction leave to a student provided she will have a good attendance record.
Aprovided she has a good attendance record.
Bprovided she will have a good attendance record.
Cprovided she had a good attendance record.
Dprovided that a good attendance record is maintained by her.
Pick an option to attempt
What is wrong with the sentence. Here 'provided' means *on the condition that*, and it introduces a conditional clause. English does not put *will* inside such a clause, even when the condition points to the future - the same rule that gives *if you ask nicely* rather than *if you will ask nicely*. The present tense carries the future sense by itself.
So 'will have' has to become *has*.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 simply repeats the original error.
* Option 3 shifts the condition into the past. *Had* would describe a record already settled, whereas the sentence states a standing policy that applies whenever leave is sought.
* Option 4 is grammatically sound but turns a crisp active clause into a wordy passive - 'a good attendance record is maintained by her'. A correction question asks for the best available version, not merely a permissible one.
Final Answer: provided she has a good attendance record.
When all the words on the page got scrambled, she quickly pressed undo, after which the document reverted back to its original state.
Adocument reverted back to it's original state.
Bdocument reverted back to original state.
Cdocument reverted to it's original state.
Ddocument reverted to its original state.
Pick an option to attempt
Two separate faults, and only one option repairs both.
*Redundancy.* To revert already means to go back, so 'reverted back' states it twice - the same fault as *return back*.
*The possessive.* 'Its' shows possession; 'it's' is the contraction of *it is*. Written out, 'it's original state' reads as *it is original state*.
The version that fixes both is 'reverted to its original state'.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 keeps the redundant *back* and adds the wrong 'it's original state'.
* Option 2 clears the possessive problem by deleting the word entirely, but keeps *back* and leaves the noun bare, with neither article nor possessive.
* Option 3 correctly drops *back* but still writes 'it's original state', so the possessive is wrong.
Final Answer: document reverted to its original state.
His talk on heritage sites has picked up my interest.
Aaroused
Badopted
Ccaught
Dbrightened
Pick an option to attempt
What the sentence needs. 'Picked up my interest' is the wrong pairing. You pick up a language, a habit, a signal or an infection, but interest that did not exist before has to be *awakened*, and English has a settled verb for that.
*Aroused my interest* is the standard collocation.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 belongs to other objects entirely - you adopt a child, a policy or a stance, never an interest.
* Option 3 is the closest rival and worth pausing on. *Caught my interest* is perfectly idiomatic, but it implies attention already there to be captured, whereas the talk is what created the interest in the first place.
* Option 4 applies to rooms, colours and moods; brightening an interest is not English.
Final Answer: aroused
He was having a difficult time, but never once he complained.
Anot once did he complain.
Bnot once did he give the complaint.
Cnot once any complaining happened.
Dnot once he complained.
Pick an option to attempt
What is wrong with the sentence. When a negative expression such as *not once*, *never* or *rarely* is moved to the front of a clause, English inverts the subject and the auxiliary, exactly as it does when forming a question. 'Never once he complained' keeps ordinary statement order, so the required inversion is missing.
The repair supplies the auxiliary and inverts it: *did he complain*.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 inverts correctly but wrecks the verb. 'Give the complaint' is not how English expresses complaining.
* Option 3 sidesteps the problem rather than solving it, swapping the person for an abstract subject; 'any complaining happened' is unidiomatic.
* Option 4 is the trap. It rewords the opening but preserves the original uninverted order - 'not once he complained' repeats the exact fault being tested.
Final Answer: not once did he complain.
This winter, I wish to go to the beaches for a holiday. I think I will go to Goa, India's most well-known beach holiday destination. It is about 600 km away from Mumbai, so reaching there is not a major problem. ___________________________. The major Goan beaches are tourist attractions and have some good beach-view hotels and plenty of shops selling touristy things such as beach robes, hats, jewellery, bags, and more.
AThere are buses that ply at night, there are both day and night trains, and one can always hire a car and reach there in comfort in about 10 hours.
BA great getaway place, it offers an interesting variety of food, sightseeing options, flea markets, and some wonderful Indo-Portuguese buildings.
COne of the great things about a holiday in Goa is that we can be as lazy as we want, relaxing all day, sunbathing, sipping juice, and trying out different Goan tidbits.
DSome major beaches are Baga, Bogmalo, Candolim, Calangute, and Dona Paula, where adventure sports activities like water skiing and scuba diving are organized.
Pick an option to attempt
What the blank has to do. The sentence before it makes a claim: Goa is 600 km from Mumbai, 'so reaching there is not a major problem'. A claim like that calls for immediate support, and the blank is where the support belongs.
Option 1 supplies it precisely - night buses, trains by day and night, and a hired car covering the distance in about ten hours. Those are the reasons the distance is not a problem.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 lists attractions: food, sightseeing, flea markets, Indo-Portuguese buildings. All true of Goa, but it leaves the accessibility claim standing unsupported.
* Option 3 describes what to do once you have arrived, and the paragraph has not yet got the traveller there.
* Option 4 is the trap. It names specific beaches and water sports, but the sentence *following* the blank is already about the major Goan beaches and what they offer. Choosing it would make the paragraph say the same thing twice.
Final Answer: There are buses that ply at night, there are both day and night trains, and one can always hire a car and reach there in comfort in about 10 hours.
Nowadays, many teenagers and young adults around the world have to spend most of their time studying in order to get top grades, a university place, and a good job. ________________________________. There are several causes for this situation, one of the main ones being exams. These are stressful experiences, and most students take a huge number of them during their school career.
ATherefore, studying while you are exhausted is unproductive.
BTherefore, it would be better to learn how to apply the knowledge gained.
CFor this reason, there is often little time left for hobbies or socializing.
DFor this reason, the education system has to change for the welfare of the students.
Pick an option to attempt
What the blank has to do. The decisive clue sits *after* the gap: 'There are several causes for this situation'. That phrase points backwards, so 'this situation' must be something the blank has just described. The blank therefore has to state a situation - not a moral, and not a remedy.
Option 3 states one: students left with little time for hobbies or socialising. The next sentence then supplies its causes, exams foremost among them.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 draws a general lesson about studying while exhausted. That is an observation, not a situation whose causes could then be listed.
* Option 2 proposes a remedy - applying knowledge rather than merely acquiring it. A remedy cannot be the thing that has several causes.
* Option 4 calls for the education system to change. That is a prescription, and it also runs ahead of the causes the paragraph is only about to introduce.
Final Answer: For this reason, there is often little time left for hobbies or socializing.
__________________________________________. In Southeast Asia, for example, climate and lifestyle factors mean that people spend much more time in shopping malls than Europeans do, who might go shopping once a fortnight. Then there are gender variations in the way we shop. As descendants of hunter-gatherers, accumulating is in our blood, but how you go about it depends on whether you are male or female.
ABy and large, people enjoy shopping and comparing brands and prices.
BRetail stores constantly offer promotional discounts to entice shoppers.
CWhen it comes to shopping, men hunt, and women gather.
DCulture plays an important role in shaping the shopping experience.
Pick an option to attempt
What the blank has to do. It opens the paragraph, and the sentence after it begins 'In Southeast Asia, for example'. An example must be an example *of* something, so the blank has to state the general principle that Southeast Asian shopping habits illustrate - and what that sentence describes is climate and lifestyle shaping behaviour, which is to say culture.
The opener also has to leave room for what comes next: 'Then there are gender variations' adds a second factor alongside the first.
Option 4 satisfies both requirements - culture as one shaping force, gender introduced afterwards as another.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 says people enjoy shopping and compare brands and prices. A contrast between regions is not an example of enjoyment.
* Option 2 concerns retailers' promotional discounts, a subject the paragraph never takes up.
* Option 3 is the real trap. It is genuinely about shopping, but it states the gender point that the paragraph deliberately withholds until 'Then there are gender variations'. Placed first, it would make that later sentence redundant and leave the Southeast Asia example illustrating nothing.
Final Answer: Culture plays an important role in shaping the shopping experience.
The people of the Indus Valley civilization wrote with a script. So far scholars have been unable to decipher that script. Archaeologists who have been excavating newly discovered sites in Mesopotamia hope to find a text that has scripts from both the Indus valley and Mesopotamia, the second of which has already been deciphered. __________________.
AThey will then be able to decode the Indus valley language.
BThey will then be able to decide which civilization was older.
CThe nature of relationships between the two will come to light.
DThey can then prove that there was trade between the two.
Pick an option to attempt
What the blank has to do. The paragraph assembles a precise piece of logic. The Indus script cannot be read. The Mesopotamian script 'has already been deciphered'. Archaeologists hope to find a single text carrying both. The blank is the payoff, and only one payoff follows from a bilingual text: a script you can read, set beside one you cannot, lets you crack the second. It is the principle that opened Egyptian hieroglyphs by way of the Rosetta Stone.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 is about dating. A text carrying both scripts would say nothing about which civilisation came first.
* Option 3 may well be true, but it is vague and it is not what the set-up has been building towards - the stated hope concerns the undeciphered script specifically.
* Option 4 jumps to a conclusion about trade. Contact might be inferred from a shared text, but proving trade is a different claim, and the paragraph's entire structure points at decipherment.
Final Answer: They will then be able to decode the Indus valley language.
The beauty of ______________ is that it poses thought-provoking questions and inspires us to think deeply about _____________ and life in general. Further, ______________ about the ideas and perspectives outlined by different thinkers can help us to gain a better _______________ of the world we live in.
Aphilosophy; ourselves; pondering; understanding
Borthography; writing; speaking; perspective
Clinguistics; language; cogitating; picture
Dhistory; animals; mulling; acquaintance
Pick an option to attempt
Work from the strongest clue. The third sentence refers to 'the ideas and perspectives outlined by different thinkers' - language that belongs to a discipline of thought rather than a technical field of study. That points to philosophy, which is also what 'poses thought-provoking questions' about life.
Now test the remaining three blanks against option 1:
* *ourselves* - philosophy prompts deep thought about ourselves and life in general.
* *pondering* - the right verb for reflecting on ideas, and it takes *about* naturally.
* *understanding* - gaining a better understanding of the world is the standard phrasing.
All four slot in cleanly.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 opens with orthography, the conventions of spelling. Spelling poses no questions about life, and speaking about ideas is not what the sentence describes.
* Option 3 is the most tempting. Linguistics is a real discipline and *cogitating* genuinely means pondering, but linguistics studies language scientifically rather than inspiring reflection on oneself, and it sits oddly with the different *thinkers* of the third sentence.
* Option 4 fails on the second blank alone: history does not lead one to think deeply about *animals*. Its fourth blank is faulty too, since acquaintance takes *with*, not *of*.
Final Answer: philosophy; ourselves; pondering; understanding
Everyday more than 1 billion promotional messages are sent that are commercial and ___________________. Although _______________ have used more technology to stop this, ________________ find ways around it.
Aunsolicited; regulators; spammers
Binescapable; governments; advertisers
Cinformative; authorities; promoters
Deducational; firewalls; hackers
Pick an option to attempt
Work from the first blank. The messages are commercial, sent a billion a day, and the rest of the sentence shows them being fought with technology. The precise word for messages nobody asked for is *unsolicited* - the standard description of spam.
The second and third blanks then form an opposition: one party tries to block, the other slips past. *Regulators* do the blocking; *spammers* do the evading, and spammers is exactly the word that pairs with unsolicited commercial messages.
Why the others fail.
* Option 2 weakens both halves. *Inescapable* describes the effect of the messages rather than their nature, and advertisers as a class are not the ones circumventing anti-spam technology.
* Option 3 is self-defeating. Calling the messages *informative* makes them useful, which removes any reason for authorities to be trying to stop them.
* Option 4 breaks the sense of the second blank: a firewall is a tool, not an agent that 'have used more technology to stop this'. *Educational* is also the opposite of what a billion promotional messages are.
Final Answer: unsolicited; regulators; spammers
Visually strong, __________________ films of the 1920s are _______________ preserved and suffer from censorship cuts, leading to the __________________ that they were primitive and barely watchable.
Aclassic; dispassionately; conclusion
Baction-packed; badly; accusation
Cmonochrome; barely; observation
Dsilent; poorly; misconception
Pick an option to attempt
The date fixes the first blank. Films 'of the 1920s' belong to the silent era - synchronised sound did not arrive until the very end of the decade. That one word then explains the rest of the sentence.
*Poorly* preserved fits the fate of early film stock, and it is what the censorship cuts compound.
The last blank turns on a contrast. These films are 'Visually strong', yet they are taken to be 'primitive and barely watchable'. A belief that is both widespread and false is a *misconception* - and the sentence is explaining how it arose, from damaged prints rather than from the films themselves.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1: *dispassionately* describes a manner of judging rather than a state of preservation, and a conclusion is reasoned, which the sentence says this belief is not.
* Option 2: *badly* would serve for the second blank, but 'action-packed' is not what characterises 1920s cinema, and an accusation requires someone accused.
* Option 3: *monochrome* is true of the period but says nothing about preservation, and *barely preserved* leaves the third blank as a neutral observation - losing the whole point, which is that the belief is mistaken.
Final Answer: silent; poorly; misconception
Achieving spaceflight enabled humans to begin to explore the solar system and the rest of the _______________, to understand the many objects and ____________ that are better observed from a space perspective, and to use for human benefit the resources and attributes of the space environment. All of these activities - discovery, scientific understanding, and the ______________ of that understanding to serve human purposes - are elements of space ________________.
Aconfiguration; elements; functioning; vastness
Bgalaxy; ideologies; enormity; visualisation
Ccosmos; materials; principles; identification
Duniverse; phenomena; application; exploration
Pick an option to attempt
Take the blanks in order.
* The first follows 'the rest of the', so it needs the category larger than the solar system: the *universe*.
* The second is paired with objects. What one observes from space are objects and *phenomena* - events, as against things.
* The third names the step that comes after understanding. Putting knowledge to work is its *application*, which the sentence then glosses as being 'to serve human purposes'.
* The fourth gathers discovery, understanding and application under a single heading: space *exploration*.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1: the solar system is not part of a 'configuration', and space functioning is not an expression English uses.
* Option 2: a galaxy is larger than the solar system but far short of everything else, *ideologies* are not observed from a space perspective, and visualisation names a technique rather than a field of activity.
* Option 3 is the strongest rival. *Cosmos* would do for the first blank, but 'materials' is much narrower than what is observed, principles are discovered rather than applied, and the closing word must name the whole endeavour - identification does not.
Final Answer: universe; phenomena; application; exploration
The investigators have _____________ that he had leaked confidential _______________ information about the acquisition, thereby allowing associates to profit _________________ from the deal.
Adiscovered; internal; enormously
Balleged; insider; illicitly
Caccused; important; dramatically
Dannounced; financial; treacherously
Pick an option to attempt
The first blank sets the register. Investigators state what they suspect but have not yet proved, and the verb English reserves for that is *alleged*.
*Insider* is then the fixed term for confidential company knowledge used ahead of a deal - insider information, insider trading. Profits made from it are made *illicitly*, outside the law.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1 grants what the sentence withholds. *Discovered* would assert the leak as settled fact, which sits badly with an investigation still under way, and *enormously* measures the profit without saying anything about its legality.
* Option 3 breaks the grammar. One accuses a *person* of something; *the investigators have alleged that he had leaked* works, but the same frame with 'accused' does not.
* Option 4: investigators announce findings, not suspicions, and *treacherously* describes disloyalty rather than the unlawful gain the sentence is concerned with.
Final Answer: alleged; insider; illicitly
In an anthropocentric ______________, animals are no more than property to human beings. Therefore, the concepts of 'humane' treatment and 'necessary' __________ are economic in nature. The idea that killing animals is not a serious issue as long as animals are not made to suffer rests ___________ on the widely accepted idea that animals do not have a right to life.
Abelief; well-being; partially
Bconstruct; comfort; somewhat
Cuniverse; gain; entirely
Dworldview; suffering; explicitly
Pick an option to attempt
Anthropocentric fixes the first blank. The word describes seeing the world with human beings at its centre, so the noun it modifies must be a comprehensive outlook - a *worldview*. A belief or a construct is too narrow to carry that adjective.
The second blank sits inside the sentence's own quotation marks, beside 'humane' treatment. Those marks flag both terms as words whose moral force has been drained away by economic use, and the pairing English uses here is *necessary suffering* - harm defended as unavoidable.
The third blank describes how openly the argument rests on its premise: *explicitly*, stated outright rather than merely implied.
Why the others fail.
* Option 1: a belief is narrower than a worldview, 'necessary well-being' is not a phrase anyone uses, and *partially* weakens a claim the sentence makes plainly.
* Option 2 inverts the sense at the second blank. What gets defended as necessary is the harm done to animals, not their comfort.
* Option 3: a universe is not something a person holds, and 'necessary gain' shifts the subject from treatment to profit.
Final Answer: worldview; suffering; explicitly
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
AThere was a scenic spot not very far from our cottage where we used to go for picnics.
BSuch a spot on his career was difficult to ignore when deciding promotions.
CHe was unsure if he could respond to the question asked; fortunately, his answer was spot on.
DShe wanted to make a good impression but, at the last moment, she discovered a spot of ink on her collar.
Pick an option to attempt
**The word under test is *spot*, and three of the four uses are sound.**
* Option 1 uses it as a place: a scenic spot near the cottage.
* Option 3 uses the idiom *spot on*, meaning exactly right.
* Option 4 uses it as a small mark: a spot of ink on a collar.
Option 2 asks *spot* to mean a stain on a reputation, and English does not stretch it that far. The word for a mark against someone's record is *blot* - a blot on his career. A spot is a physical mark; the figurative sense of a blemished record belongs to a different noun.
Final Answer: Such a spot on his career was difficult to ignore when deciding promotions.
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
AWhen the women were asked to join the protest, they refused to collaborate.
BSome treacherous relatives of Indian rulers collaborated with the British Empire.
CShe interviewed many teens to collaborate her thesis on their mental health issues.
DThe policeman collaborated with the film makers who were shooting a crime thriller.
Pick an option to attempt
**The question turns on two words that sound alike: *collaborate* and *corroborate*.**
To collaborate is to work jointly with someone. To corroborate is to confirm something with supporting evidence. They share a rhythm and nothing else.
Options 1, 2 and 4 all use collaborate correctly, and each describes people working together - refusing to join a protest, siding with the British Empire, assisting a film crew.
Option 3 needs the other word. Interviewing many teens gathers evidence that would *corroborate* a thesis. You cannot collaborate a thesis at all: collaboration is something done *with* a person, never *to* an argument.
Final Answer: She interviewed many teens to collaborate her thesis on their mental health issues.
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
AIt was a long journey by road, and they had yet to find a boat that would help them to cross the river.
BWe were told that she had lived through tough times which made her cross and cranky as she grew older.
CThe mistakes of his youth are the cross that he has to bear for the rest of his life.
DAlthough he thinks he is the life of the party, his remarks are insensitive, and his jokes are vulgar, cross, and crude.
Pick an option to attempt
**Three distinct senses of *cross* appear here, and three are used properly.**
* Option 1: the verb, meaning to go across - to cross the river.
* Option 2: the adjective, meaning irritable - she grew cross and cranky.
* Option 3: the noun inside the idiom *a cross to bear*, a burden one has to carry.
Option 4 misuses the adjective. *Cross* describes a person's temper, not the character of a joke. Jokes can be crude, tasteless or offensive; they cannot be irritable, which is what cross would have to mean sitting between 'vulgar' and 'crude'.
Final Answer: Although he thinks he is the life of the party, his remarks are insensitive, and his jokes are vulgar, cross, and crude.
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
AThe orchestra decided to flout tradition and played their instruments wearing ordinary clothes.
BThe problems caused by flouting rules are many, but some people do not care.
CShe flouted her designer wear and accessories in front of her classmates.
DHer fault was that she flouted the dress code and refused to wear the uniform.
Pick an option to attempt
**Another near-homophone pair: *flout* and *flaunt*.**
To flout is to defy a rule openly and with contempt. To flaunt is to display something showily. The similarity is entirely in the sound.
Options 1, 2 and 4 each flout the right kind of object - a tradition, rules, a dress code. All three are things that can be defied.
Option 3 has her flouting designer wear and accessories, but clothes are not rules and contain nothing to disobey. Displaying them in front of classmates is *flaunting* them.
Final Answer: She flouted her designer wear and accessories in front of her classmates.
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
AThe cricket match was heading for a draw, when the batsman hit a sixer and our team won.
BHe was lucky enough to win the draw in the lottery, where the prize was a rare painting.
CHe used to keep all his important documents in the draw of his cupboard.
DAs he was very old, he didn't have the strength to draw water from the well near his house.
Pick an option to attempt
**The confusion here is between *draw* and *drawer*.**
A draw is a tied result, or a lottery selection, or the act of pulling something out. A drawer is the sliding compartment in a piece of furniture.
Options 1, 2 and 4 all use *draw* correctly - a cricket match heading for a draw, a lottery draw, and drawing water from a well.
Option 3 means the compartment in a cupboard, and that word is *drawer*. A single missing letter is the entire error, which is exactly what makes it easy to read past.
Final Answer: He used to keep all his important documents in the draw of his cupboard.
One of the statements below contains a word used incorrectly. Choose the option which has the incorrect or inappropriate usage of the word.
AHer admirers considered her demeanour to be of great state and refinement, and most impressive.
BUttar Pradesh, being the most densely populated state in India, has the highest number of representatives in Parliament.
CThe judicial magistrate asked the prosecuting lawyer to state the grounds on which the defendant had been arrested.
DThe state of his grandfather's health was critical, but it was difficult for him to get in touch with all the members of the family.
Pick an option to attempt
**Three of the four sentences use *state* in an ordinary sense.**
* Option 2: a political division - the most densely populated state in India.
* Option 3: the verb, to declare - asked to state the grounds for an arrest.
* Option 4: a condition - the state of his grandfather's health.
Option 1 asks *state* to mean dignity of bearing, and English does not use it that way. The words for an impressive personal presence are *stature* or *bearing*. As written, 'of great state and refinement' reads as a condition, which makes no sense of a demeanour her admirers found impressive.
Final Answer: Her admirers considered her demeanour to be of great state and refinement, and most impressive.
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph.
- 1. A sub-par monsoon cuts farm yields, output, and farm incomes, increasing the country's dependence on food imports.
- 2. A robust monsoon will help put a lid on food inflation by increasing domestic output of a variety of goods and commodities.
- 3. This is because half the Indian population depends upon farm-derived income.
- 4. The June-to-September rain-bearing system is often called the lifeblood of the country's economy.
- 5. Unfortunately, however, nearly 40% of India's net sown area does not have access to irrigation.
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Find the opener. Sentence 4 names the subject and labels it - the June-to-September system, 'the lifeblood of the country's economy'. Nothing can precede the sentence that introduces the topic.
Then follow the connectives.
* Sentence 3 begins 'This is because', so it must explain a claim just made. The claim it explains is why the monsoon earns that label: half the population lives on farm income. So 4 comes before 3.
* Sentence 5 opens 'Unfortunately, however' and supplies the complication - nearly 40% of sown area has no irrigation, which is what leaves that farm income at the mercy of the rain. So 3 before 5.
* Sentence 1 then spells out what a weak monsoon does, and it bites precisely because of the irrigation gap just established. So 5 before 1.
* Sentence 2 gives the opposite case, a robust monsoon holding food inflation down. A contrast must follow the thing it contrasts with, so it closes.
The paragraph runs 4 - 3 - 5 - 1 - 2.Final Answer: 43512
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph.
- 1. The popularity of these creations grew along with that of the tea ceremony in the 16th century.
- 2. However, savvy tourists find the best bargains for ceramics in Tokyo's Kitchen Town.
- 3. Modern shops in touristy spots display thousands of them, both hand crafted and factory made.
- 4. Japanese artisans have been making ceramics, known as Yakimono since prehistoric times.
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Find the opener. Sentence 4 is the only one that names its subject outright - ceramics, 'known as Yakimono' - and it begins at the earliest point in time, 'since prehistoric times'. Every other sentence refers back to something already introduced.
Then follow the back-references.
* Sentence 1 says 'these creations', a phrase with nothing to point at until the ceramics of sentence 4 have been named. It also advances the clock to the 16th century. So 4 before 1.
* Sentence 3 brings the account to the present with 'Modern shops' and calls the objects 'them', continuing the same chain. So 1 before 3.
* Sentence 2 opens 'However' and sets Kitchen Town against the 'touristy spots' of sentence 3. That phrase has to be on the page first, so 3 before 2, and the practical tip closes the paragraph.
The chronology confirms the chain: prehistory, then the 16th century, then the modern shops.
Final Answer: 4132
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph.
- 1. This means the brain receives less input over the course of a day.
- 2. Youthful eyes jiggle regularly to take in new or unfamiliar stimuli.
- 3. As the person attached to those eyes ages, the eye muscles grow slower and the pathways between the eye and the brain grow longer, more complex, or, in some cases, get damaged.
- 4. Our eyes quickly scan the surroundings and then send the data to the brain.
- 5. Human eyes perform jiggles, more formally called saccades, in response to a change in the field of vision.
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Find the opener. Sentence 5 introduces the phenomenon and names it - jiggles, 'more formally called saccades'. A paragraph cannot lean on a term before defining it, and sentences 2 and 3 both do lean on it.
Then follow the chain.
* Sentence 4 continues in general terms, with eyes scanning and sending data to the brain. It also puts the brain on the page, which the closing sentence needs. So 5 before 4.
* Sentence 2 narrows from eyes in general to a particular case, 'Youthful eyes'. So 4 before 2.
* Sentence 3 begins 'As the person attached to those eyes ages' - and *those eyes* points straight back to the youthful ones. So 2 before 3.
* Sentence 1 opens with a pointer of its own and states the upshot: less input reaching the brain across a day. It can only follow the deterioration sentence 3 describes.
The paragraph runs 5 - 4 - 2 - 3 - 1.Final Answer: 54231
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph.
- 1. Located in the foothills of the Sion Fort, the lake is a Grade II-A heritage structure, dating back to the 17th century.
- 2. Once home to several marine creatures, the lake is now surrounded by high-rise residential buildings.
- 3. The Municipal Corporation is set to breathe life back into the city's Sion Talao (Lake) with the rejuvenation and beautification of the centuries-old lake.
- 4. Over the years, the lake has lost its prominence.
- 5. Earlier the talao was a known natural water tank with the Sion hillock expanding around it like an enclosing wall.
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Find the opener. Sentence 3 is the only one that gives the lake its full name, 'Sion Talao (Lake)', and it carries the news - the Corporation's rejuvenation plan. The other four all say *the lake* or *the talao*, which assumes the name is already known.
Then follow the time markers.
* Sentence 1 identifies and places the lake just named, adding its heritage grade and 17th-century date. So 3 before 1.
* Sentence 5 begins *Earlier* and describes the original setting, with the hillock enclosing it like a wall. So 1 before 5.
* Sentence 4 - 'Over the years, the lake has lost its prominence' - carries the clock forward from that earlier state. So 5 before 4.
* Sentence 2 completes the decline with a past-to-present contrast of its own: 'Once home to several marine creatures', now ringed by high-rises. It closes.
The paragraph runs 3 - 1 - 5 - 4 - 2.Final Answer: 31542
The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph.
- 1. The Central African Republic has approved Bitcoin as an official currency.
- 2. Experts foresee that this will damage the environment as well as the economy.
- 3. Others claim that this may make money laundering easy and also use up a lot of electricity.
- 4. Economists criticised this move as a potential risk to the financial stability of the nation.
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Find the opener. Sentence 1 reports the event; the other three only comment on it. Sentence 4 speaks of *this move*, which needs something to refer to, and only sentence 1 supplies it.
Then follow the commentators.
* Sentence 4 gives the first reaction, from economists, and names their worry: risk to the nation's financial stability. So 1 before 4.
* Sentence 3 begins 'Others claim', which only makes sense once one group has already spoken. It adds two further objections - easy money laundering and heavy electricity use. So 4 before 3.
* Sentence 2 closes by gathering both threads: damage to 'the environment as well as the economy'. The environment answers the electricity of sentence 3 and the economy answers the financial stability of sentence 4, so it has to come after both.
The paragraph runs 1 - 4 - 3 - 2.Final Answer: 1432