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
(iii)=?
(question no 1 till 10 are linked together )
- A.
industry
- B.
experiment
- C.
program
- D.
research
Attempted by 2 students.
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: D
Concept: In a vocabulary-based cloze test, the correct word for a blank must satisfy two things together: it must fit the surrounding grammar, and it must form a natural, idiomatic collocation with the neighbouring words — certain word-pairs (like “evidence shows” or “studies confirm”) are used together far more often than others of similar meaning.
Application: The blank sits in “___ suggests, however, that it is the young people who are best able to deal with this change,” so the missing word must be a noun capable of producing a general finding that “suggests” a broad conclusion. “Industry” ordinarily names a branch of economic activity (manufacturing, IT, tourism) or the trait of being industrious — neither sense lets it stand as the subject putting forward a claim, so “industry suggests” does not read as natural English. “Program” names a planned sequence of activities, a broadcast, or a software application — none of these senses let it function as a subject that puts forward a conclusion, so “program suggests” does not fit the sentence’s meaning. “Experiment” names one specific, controlled trial set up to test a single hypothesis; because it names one isolated test rather than an accumulated body of work, it does not sit comfortably as the subject introducing a sweeping claim about an entire generation the way this sentence does. “Research” denotes a systematic, ongoing body of investigation, and “research suggests” is the standard, frequently used English collocation for introducing exactly this kind of general claim.
Cross-check: Reading the sentence with “research” inserted — “Research suggests, however, that it is the young people who are best able to deal with this change” — reads naturally and matches the passage’s broader point about generational differences in adapting to technology, confirming that “research” is the word that belongs here.