Discussion
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.
During spring 1947, as communal tensions rose and the central government ______ increasingly divided between the Muslim League and the Congress, Lord Mountbatten moved to propose that the country be partitioned ______ two dominions, to be known as Pakistan and India. After both the League and Congress ______ to this plan "behind the scenes," the British government announced its approval and Nehru, Jinnah, and Baldev Singh publicly ______ it on 3 June 1947.
Answer: B
The words are became, into, agreed, accepted. The central government became increasingly divided, the country was partitioned into two dominions, both parties agreed to the plan behind the scenes, and the leaders publicly accepted it on 3 June 1947.
Got is wrong with divided in this sense, and of, to and between do not suit partitioned two dominions. Alluded to, proceeded and denounced do not fit the meaning of leaders approving the plan in public.
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