Discussion
Inhaling the smoke from a burning _________ could _________ you quickly.
Answer: C
The sentence reads “Inhaling the smoke from a burning tyre could tire you quickly.”
The first blank needs a noun for the thing that burns: tyre, the rubber covering of a wheel (spelt tire in American English). The second blank follows the modal could, so it needs a verb: tire, to make weary or exhausted.
Tier is a noun meaning a row or level, as in a tiered cake, and is not a verb at all, so options ending in tier fail. tire / tyre puts the verb spelling in the noun slot and a noun in the verb slot; tyre is never used as a verb. The question rests on the British spelling the paper follows, where tyre is the noun and tire the verb.
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