Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
He became enamored ...... her grace when he first saw her dance.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Of
Enamoured takes of in standard usage: enamoured of her grace.
With is occasionally heard but is not the form tested here, and by and in do not follow this adjective.
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Rama was so badly injured that he needed ...... care in the hospital.
Answer: D
Correct answer: Intensive
Intensive care is the fixed term for concentrated medical attention, and it is what a badly injured patient needs.
Extensive means wide-ranging rather than concentrated; deep and little do not describe hospital care.
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You cannot devise a method which ...... all possibility of errors.
Answer: A
This sentence completely means that device means to come up with so you cannot device a method which exclude all possibility of errors - avoid and ignore can't be the option because there is still some error in your method. option A is correct.
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Many areas of the city were ...... into darkness for several hours.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Plunged
Plunge into darkness is the idiom for a sudden and complete loss of light.
Merged needs two things to combine, spread takes no into in this sense, and deep is an adjective, not a verb.
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Find the ...... that accompany these cartoons.
Answer: C
Caption is a brief word or sentence on a photo or poster. Titles are the main lines of the movies or books. Headings is the short summary about a paragraph or news and topic is a piece of content. option C is correct.
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I don't really know how to ...... the problem
Answer: A
Correct answer: Tackle
Tackle a problem is the standard collocation for taking one on.
Cope requires with, and draw and erase do not combine with problem at all.
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The English schemed to continue their rule in India by playing off one community ...... the other.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Against
Play off one against the other is a fixed idiom for setting two parties in conflict for one's own advantage - precisely the policy described.
No other preposition completes play off in this sense.
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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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