Read the passage given below and complete it by selecting the right words from…
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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 105.
Answer: B. look — CONCEPTIn a cloze passage, the best word must satisfy grammar, natural collocation, and contextual meaning together. When an article and adjective open a noun…
- A.
gaze
- B.
look
- C.
inspection
- D.
More than one of the above
- E.
None of the above
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Correct answer: B
CONCEPT
In a cloze passage, the best word must satisfy grammar, natural collocation, and contextual meaning together.
When an article and adjective open a noun phrase, the blank must work as a singular count noun, and the noun must combine naturally with the following preposition.
APPLICATION
The local phrase is “A quick ___ through some of the recipes …”. The blank therefore needs a noun that naturally forms a phrase meaning a brief examination of a collection.
“Look” forms the established expression “a quick look through”, so the completed sentence means that briefly examining the recipes will reveal their emphasis on time and appliances.
CONTRAST
“Gaze” denotes a steady or intent act of looking and is not the natural noun in this quick-review collocation.
“Look” works as a singular count noun after “a quick” and combines idiomatically with “through”.
“Inspection” denotes a more formal or careful examination and normally takes “of” in this structure.
“More than one of the above” is unsupported because only one offered word produces the natural phrase required here.
“None of the above” is unsupported because an offered word does complete the phrase naturally.
CROSS-CHECK
Substituting the word gives “A quick look through some of the recipes …”, a grammatical and idiomatic phrase. Standard dictionaries define “look through” as briefly examining or reading items in a collection.
Therefore, the word that best completes blank 105 is “look”.