Directions: Read the passage given below and choose the correct alternative…
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Directions: Read the passage given below and choose the correct alternative for each of the following.
There was a dog and he was very hungry. He searched for food everywhere and at last he found a bone. He started going home after picking the bone with his mouth. There was a bridge on the way to his home. When he started crossing it, he saw his reflection in water. The dog thought that there was another dog with a bone in water. He wanted to get that other bone too. So the dog started barking at his own reflection. His bone fell in water as soon as he opened his mouth. The greedy dog lost his bone.
The dog barked and the bone fell down from his ____.
Answer: C. mouth — ConceptA context-completion question is solved by linking the incomplete sentence to the passage’s explicit sequence of actions. The chosen word must preserve…
- A.
legs
- B.
body
- C.
mouth
- D.
More than one of the above
- E.
None of the above
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Correct answer: C
Concept
A context-completion question is solved by linking the incomplete sentence to the passage’s explicit sequence of actions. The chosen word must preserve both the grammar of the sentence and the cause-and-effect chain in the text.
When an object is being carried by a body part, identify what action changes that part’s state and what happens to the object immediately afterward.
Application
The passage first says that the dog picked up and carried the bone with his mouth.
The dog then barked at its reflection, which required him to open his mouth.
As soon as the mouth opened, it could no longer hold the bone, so the bone fell into the water.
Contrast
Legs explain walking and crossing the bridge, not the holding-and-release mechanism.
Body is too broad; the passage names a specific part that both carried the bone and opened while barking.
“More than one of the above” would require two body-part terms to satisfy the same evidence chain, which the passage does not provide.
“None of the above” would require no listed term to fit, but the passage explicitly supplies one.
Result
Therefore, the bone fell from the dog’s mouth.