Fill in the Blanks Questions and Answers

Answer: A

The correct word is security: the security officer.

A security officer is a person employed to guard a building such as a bank and watch for suspicious people, which fits someone who noticed a masked man leaving the bank.

An 'emergency officer' and a 'safety officer' have different jobs, dealing with emergencies and workplace hazards. 'Watchman' is itself a noun for a guard, so 'watchman officer' is not idiomatic.

Answer: D

The correct option is inspite of.

The blank is followed by a noun phrase, 'the low attendance', so a preposition meaning 'regardless of' is needed: the meeting will be held in spite of the low attendance. (The standard spelling is 'in spite of'; the paper prints it as one word.)

'Even when', 'although' and 'even if' are conjunctions and must be followed by a clause with a verb, such as 'although attendance is low', not by a noun phrase alone.

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.

Answer: A

Correct answer: widespread

A hobby shared by many people is widespread.

Notable says it is worth remarking on rather than that many share it; inception and perspective are nouns and cannot modify hobby.

Answer: A

Correct answer: backed out

Back out means to withdraw from an agreement, which is what losing confidence at the last minute leads to.

Back down is to abandon a claim in an argument, and backed on and backed onto describe a building's aspect.

Answer: C

Correct answer: launched

A company launches a product - the standard verb for putting one on the market.

Started and begun take an activity, not a product, and commissioned means ordering work to be done.

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.

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.

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.

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.