Discussion
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.
For the first time, researchers have ______ a clouded leopard in a community forest in Nagaland. Clouded leopards ______ known for their spotted coat and inhabit the primary evergreen rainforests.
Answer: A
The pair is spotted, are. Researchers have spotted a clouded leopard means they have seen it, and the second blank needs a plural verb for ‘Clouded leopards’: they are known for their spotted coat.
‘Were’ changes the tense wrongly in a statement of general fact, ‘be’ cannot follow a plural subject here, and ‘is’ does not agree with the plural subject.
The verb ‘spotted’ is the right sense of the first blank: in wildlife reports researchers spot, record or sight an animal. ‘Discovered’ and ‘found’ need a different second verb, and ‘seen’ with ‘were’ makes the second sentence a past statement about leopards in general.
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