Directions: Complete the sentences given below using the correct alternatives.…

Concept

Seasons follow a recurring annual cycle. In the conventional four-season sequence, each season has one immediate predecessor and one immediate successor.

The sequence is winter → spring → summer → autumn, then it returns to winter.

Application

The sentence asks for the season immediately before spring. Reading the sequence shows winter → spring, so the blank is completed by “Winter”.

Contrast

• Summer comes immediately after spring in the conventional sequence.

• Rain is precipitation, not one of the four seasons named in this sequence.

• Winter comes immediately before spring in the conventional sequence.

• “More than one of the above” would require at least two listed choices to be spring’s immediate predecessor, but a sequence gives each season only one immediate predecessor.

• “None of the above” would require the predecessor to be absent from the list, but the list includes winter.

Result

Therefore, spring comes after winter.