There are _______ views on the issue of giving bonus to the employees.

Sentence-completion vocabulary questions test whether you can pick the word whose core meaning matches the sense the sentence is building, not just a word that happens to be the same part of speech. Several adjectives can look interchangeable at a glance, but each carries a distinct shade of meaning, and only one truly fits the situation described.

Here the sentence says there are ______ views "on the issue" of giving bonus to employees -- meaning people hold opinions that differ from, or are opposed to, one another on this question. "Divergent" means tending to move apart or differ from one another, which is exactly the sense of disagreement and variety in opinion the sentence needs. So "There are divergent views on the issue of giving bonus to the employees" correctly conveys that opinions on the matter differ.

Why the other options do not fit:

• independent: means self-governing or not controlled by others; it describes autonomy, not whether the views differ from each other, so it does not capture the sense of disagreement in the sentence.

• modest: means small in degree, or humble and unassuming; it describes size or humility, not variety of opinion, so it does not fit describing differing views.

• adverse: means harmful or unfavourable, working against someone's interest; it describes something damaging, not simply differing viewpoints, so it does not match the neutral sense of "differing opinions" here.