Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
The passengers were afraid, but the captain ...... them that there was no danger.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Assured
Assure means to tell someone something confidently so as to remove doubt, and it takes a person as its direct object.
Promised would commit the captain to a future act; advised and counselled offer guidance rather than reassurance.
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The family gave father a gold watch on the ...... of his fiftieth birthday
Answer: C
Correct answer: Occasion
On the occasion of is the fixed phrase for marking an event.
Time, event and celebration do not take on the… of in this way.
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The park ...... as far as the river.
Answer: A
Correct answer: extends
A park stretching to the river extends as far as it; the verb describes reaching over a distance.
Advances and emerges imply movement, which a park does not make, and enlarges means growing bigger rather than reaching a limit.
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Many of the advances of civilisation have been conceived by young people just on the ...... of adulthood
Answer: B
Correct answer: Threshold
On the threshold of means at the very beginning of, which is what young people just entering adulthood are.
Boundary and horizon do not take on the… of in this sense, and peak would mean the height of adulthood, not its start.
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Arti pulled a long ...... when she was told that she could not go to Agra.
Answer: C
Correct answer: face
Pull a long face is the idiom for looking disappointed, which is what being refused the trip would produce.
None of the other nouns forms an idiom with pull a long.
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Brothers must live in harmony. They must never fall ......
Answer: B
Correct answer: out
Fall out means to quarrel, which is what brothers living in harmony must avoid.
Fall off is to decline, fall apart is to disintegrate, and fall away is to desert or dwindle.
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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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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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The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about the _______ that one makes in life.
Answer: A
Correct answer: choices
Frost's poem turns on a traveller deciding between two roads, and the fork stands for the choices a person makes.
Fork is the image, not what it represents; sorry is a word from the poem, and both is what the traveller cannot take.
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Frost uses this fork in the road to represent a point in the man’s life where he has to choose the_________ he wishes to take in life.
Answer: C
Correct answer: direction
Choosing a road means choosing a direction, and the sentence says the man must choose the one he wishes to take in life.
Choices would repeat the previous sentence, fork is the point of decision rather than what is chosen, and both is impossible at a fork.
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