Pick out the most effective word(s) from the given words to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
It ...... that Prashant will not be selected for the post
Answer: D
Correct answer: Seems
It seems that… is the impersonal construction English uses to report an impression.
Looks and feels need as if, and believes requires a person as its subject - it cannot believe anything.
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In Bush, Saddam was up ...... more than his match.
Answer: C
Correct answer: Against
Be up against means to be faced with a difficulty or an opponent, which is exactly the situation described.
Up for means willing, up to means capable of or engaged in, and up into is not an idiom.
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I haven't seen you ...... a week.
Answer: C
Correct answer: For
A stretch of time takes for; a starting point takes since. A week is a stretch.
Since would need a point such as last Monday, and within and from do not fit a negative perfect of this kind.
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I listened, but I had no idea what he was ...... about.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Talking
Talk about is the phrase the blank needs, since about follows.
Tell and discuss take a direct object with no preposition, and say takes the words said, not the topic.
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The car in which the minister was traveling ...... with an accident.
Answer: D
Correct answer: Met
Meet with an accident is the fixed idiom for being involved in one.
Hit and crashed would need a different object, and drove with an accident is not English.
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The non cooperative attitude of the members can only ...... the image of the society.
Answer: A
Correct answer: Spoil
Spoil the image is the ordinary collocation, and can only tells us the effect is bad.
Improve reverses it. Defame takes a person, not an image, and degrade suggests lowering in rank rather than damaging a reputation.
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Sonika is quite intelligent but rather ......
Answer: C
Correct answer: Lazy
But demands a contrast with intelligent, and laziness is the quality that undercuts intelligence.
Idealistic, generous and optimistic are all compatible with being intelligent, so none of them supplies the contrast but promises.
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In a little-publicised deal, Pepsi, Cola has ...... the entire soft drink market in Afghanistan.
Answer: D
Correct answer: captured
Capture the market is the established business idiom for taking it over.
Occupied and conquered belong to territory, and swallowed would be used of taking over a company, not a market.
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He ...... in wearing the old fashioned coat in spite of his wife's disapproval.
Answer: B
Correct answer: persists
Persist in means to keep doing something despite opposition, which is what the disapproval establishes.
Insists takes on, and desists and resists both mean stopping or opposing - the opposite of what he does.
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She ...... a brief appearance at the end of party.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Put in
Put in an appearance is a fixed phrase meaning to attend briefly.
Put on is to wear or to stage, put up is to lodge or to raise, and put across is to communicate.
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