Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Fate smiles ...... those who untiringly grapple with stark realities of life.
Answer: C
Correct answer: on
Smile on is the fixed idiom for showing favour, and it is the form the proverb takes: fate smiles on those who….
One smiles at a person one is amused by, but smile with, over and round are not English in this sense.
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The miser gazed ...... at the pile of gold coins in front of him.
Answer: A
Correct answer: Avidly
A miser gazing at his gold looks with greed, and avidly is the adverb for eager, hungry attention.
Admiringly and thoughtfully would make him a connoisseur rather than a miser, and earnestly describes sincerity, not desire.
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Catching the earlier train will give us the ...... to do some shopping.
Answer: A
Correct answer: Chance
Chance to do something is the standard pattern for an opportunity created by circumstance - here, by catching the earlier train.
Luck and possibility are not followed by a to-infinitive in this way, and occasion means a particular event rather than an opening in one's day.
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I saw a ...... of cows in the field.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Herd
English uses a different collective noun for each kind of animal, and cattle go in a herd.
A flock is of sheep or birds, a swarm of insects, and group is too general to be the tested answer.
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The grapes are now ...... enough to be picked.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Ripe
Fruit ready to be picked is ripe; the word is used of fruit and of little else.
Mature suits a person or a tree rather than the grapes themselves, and ready and advanced do not carry the specific sense of fruit fit to eat.
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Success in this examination depends ...... hard work alone.
Answer: D
Correct answer: On
Depend is always followed by on or upon.
No other preposition is possible with this verb, which is what makes the question a test of collocation rather than of meaning.
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My uncle decided to take ...... and my sister to the market.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Me
The pronoun is the object of take, so the objective form is required. Removing and my sister makes it audible: take me to the market.
I is a subject form, mine a possessive, and myself is reflexive, which needs the subject to be the same person.
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If you smuggle goods into the country, they may be ...... by the customs authority.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Confiscated
Goods seized by an authority are confiscated; the verb takes the goods as its object.
People, not goods, are punished and fined, and possessed does not carry the sense of official seizure.
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Man does not live by ...... alone.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Bread
The saying is fixed: man does not live by bread alone, where bread stands for material sustenance generally.
Food, meals and diet all give the literal sense but destroy the proverb, which is what the question is testing.
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Piyush behaves strangely at times and, therefore, nobody gets ...... with him.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Along
Get along with means to be on good terms with, which is what strange behaviour prevents.
Get about, get through and get up are all real phrasal verbs, but none of them describes a relationship between people.
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