Fill in the Blanks Questions and Answers

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.

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.

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.

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: 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: threat

Losing the bees that pollinate crops endangers them, and what is posed is a threat.

Hurdle is an obstacle to be got over rather than a danger; surplus reverses the sense, and disappearance already appears earlier in the sentence.

Answer: B

Correct answer: happened to be

Happen to be reports something that occurred by chance, which suits a chance encounter with a well at night.

Wasnt reverses the sense and is misspelt, and discovered in and found to do not fit passing by.

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: 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: 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.