Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each…
2024
Direction: Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks
Every month, scientists ___(i)___ new gadgets and new ways to make technology faster and better. Our homes are full of hardware (such as DVD players and computers) and ___(ii)___ (such as computer games and MP3s). ___(iii)___ suggests, however, that it is the young people who are best able to deal with this change. Whereas teenagers have no problem ___(iv)___ a DVD player, their parents and grandparents often find using new technology ___(v)___ and different. But if you’re a teenager who criticizes your parents for their ___(vi)___ of technological awareness, don’t be too hard on them! Sometime ___(vii)___the future, when you’ve got children of your own, your ___(viii)___ to deal with new technology will probably ___(ix)___ and your children will feel more ___(x)___ with new technology than you do.
Find the appropriate word in case
(v)=?
(question no 1 till 10 are linked together )
- A.
sudden
- B.
unique
- C.
complicated
- D.
automatic
Attempted by 4 students.
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: C
Concept: In a cloze / vocabulary-based blank question, the missing word must (a) fit the co-ordinate structure it sits in — here it is joined to another adjective by "and" — and (b) match the meaning the passage has already set up; any option that merely restates the paired word, contradicts the stated meaning, or is grammatically mismatched must be discarded.
Application: The sentence reads "parents and grandparents often find using new technology ___ and different." The blank must combine with 'different' through 'and', describing the parents' and grandparents' experience of new technology. The passage's whole point is that older generations struggle with technology (contrasted with teenagers who "have no problem" with it), so the blank needs a word meaning hard to understand or handle. 'Complicated' supplies exactly that sense, and it pairs naturally with 'different' — together the two words describe technology as both hard to handle ('complicated') and unfamiliar in kind ('different').
Cross-check — why each other option fails:
'Unique' means one-of-a-kind, which already overlaps with 'different' — pairing them would just repeat the same idea instead of adding a new one, so it is discarded.
'Sudden' describes timing/abruptness, not the difficulty of using something, so it does not logically pair with 'different' here.
'Automatic' means happening by itself with no effort — the opposite of struggling with something — which contradicts the passage's context.
So the word that both fits the grammar of '___ and different' and matches the passage's meaning of a struggle — completing it as 'complicated and different' — is the correct fill.