After -------- , it was found that the robbery was an insider’s job
Answer: A
Correct answer: investigation
After ______, it was found that… calls for the process that produced the finding, and a robbery is followed by an investigation.
Masterminded and estimated are verbs, and grave does not fit the sense.
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What are you _________ in the kitchen cupboard?
Answer: D
Correct answer: looking for
Look for means to search for, which is what one does in a cupboard.
Look in means to pay a short visit, look on is to watch without taking part, and look to is to rely on.
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The neighbour grabbed the boy, and rolled him on the road to ___________ the flames.
Answer: B
Correct answer: kill
Among the options offered, only kill collocates with the flames to mean putting them out; rolling someone on the ground smothers the fire.
Cover needs an object such as the person, burn out is what the fire does by itself, and fizz out is not used of flames.
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he has -------- several adventure novels which have been on the New York Best Seller list more than 20 times.
Answer: A
Correct answer: penned
Pen as a verb means to write, and it is novels that are written.
Read would make him the reader rather than the author; explorer and schedule are nouns and cannot follow he has.
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High emotional intelligence can help a manager _______ workplace communication skills, employee motivation and organisational effectiveness
Answer: A
Correct answer: improve
The three items listed - communication, motivation, effectiveness - are things a manager makes better, so the verb is improve.
Listen cannot take these objects, empathy is a noun, and increased is a past form that will not follow help a manager.
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Based on his --------- as the chairman and founder as well as an active underwater diver
Answer: B
Correct answer: experiences
Based on his ______ as the chairman and founder needs a noun for what he has lived through, and experiences is it.
Stand and diver do not fit based on his… as the chairman, and penned is a verb.
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More recently it has been discovered that owning a pet can help lower people’s blood pressure, _________ the chances of living after a heart attack, keep people more active and provide more satisfaction with life
Answer: C
Correct answer: enhance
The list that follows - lower blood pressure, keep people active, provide company - is of benefits, so the blank must mean improve. Chances of survival are enhanced.
Discover would repeat the earlier verb and makes no sense with chances; the other two do not fit the grammar.
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Sometimes the greatest inventions ___________ an idea of startling simplicity.
Answer: B
Correct answer: hinge upon
Hinge upon means to depend entirely on, which is what an invention does when its whole force comes from one simple idea.
Stumbles upon means to find by accident and takes a person as subject, starves without is not idiomatic here, and lacks would say the invention has no such idea.
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Today, scientific research is trying to _______ the positive aspects of living with companion animals
Answer: A
Correct answer: discover
Research finds out what is not yet known, so discover is the verb that fits trying to.
Enhance would mean improving those aspects rather than finding them; alternative is not a verb, and theorized is a past form that cannot follow to.
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I did not see the point of _________ waiting for them, so I went home.
Answer: A
Correct answer: hanging around
Hang around means to wait idly, which is what the speaker saw no point in.
Hang on means to wait a moment or to hold tight, hang up is to end a telephone call, and hang together is to be consistent.
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