Read the passage given below and complete it by selecting the right words from…
2023
Read the passage given below and complete it by selecting the right words from the choices given to match them to the numbered blanks.
While a certain 101 attitude can be detected in the 102 of fast food in the narratives of the established 103, the popular writings which appear in cookbooks and dailies 104 the virtues of fast food. A quick 105 through some of the recipes published in ‘Metro Plus’ in The Hindu, a 106 Indian newspaper, will show the importance given to the time 107 to cook as well as the appliances which are 108 in cooking. On the cover of a popular ‘Readymade Paneer’, I have come across the 109 ‘no cooking required’. All that is required is heating the food in a microwave oven. This is probably the other end of the 110 of food writing in India where minimalism has become the buzzword. More importantly, their entry into the group of Indian English writers also signals a significant shift in the way we look at Indian writing in English.
Choose the word that best completes blank 110.
Answer: D. More than one of the above — ConceptA cloze answer is normally determined by grammar, established collocation, and contextual meaning. For a previous-year examination item, the official…
- A.
spectrum
- B.
field
- C.
genre
- D.
More than one of the above
- E.
None of the above
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Correct answer: D
Concept
A cloze answer is normally determined by grammar, established collocation, and contextual meaning.
For a previous-year examination item, the official final key determines the scored response; when that key conflicts with the underlying source wording, a sound explanation must preserve both facts instead of inventing a linguistic justification.
Application
In the underlying University of Hyderabad passage, the sentence reads “the other end of the spectrum of food writing in India.”
That source wording makes spectrum the strongest ordinary lexical completion because “the other end of the spectrum” is the established range-between-extremes expression.
The BPSC final answer key for this exact 2023 English PYQ nevertheless assigns “More than one of the above.” The official key gives the scored response but does not explain which additional word it regarded as acceptable.
Contrast
Field names a domain, but “the other end of the field of food writing” is not the source wording and is less idiomatic than the spectrum construction.
Genre names a literary category, but endpoint language is not the natural relation in this sentence.
None of the above would claim that no listed completion works, but the source passage supplies a listed completion and the official key selects a listed response.
Cross-check
The primary passage verifies the original wording, while the official BPSC final key verifies how this PYQ is scored. The discrepancy is therefore explicit rather than being hidden behind an unsupported claim that two lexical choices are equally natural.
Result
For this BPSC PYQ, the accepted scored response is More than one of the above; the source passage itself uses spectrum.