Multiple choice

Which of the following could replace ‘transform’ as used in the passage?

Directions: Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option according to the corresponding number in the passage.

The importance of developing a highly cohesive and effective team can be gauged from some of the strangest methods adopted by organisations across the world for this purpose. Corporations could still be exploring new things and one day might ask their employees to perform strange tasks like swimming with dolphins to inculcate team spirit or even ask them to go for parachuting as a strategy to create a winning team out of a group of quarrelling individuals. Of late, the so-called team building activities have become so absurd and nonsensical to employees as well as employers that I developed a kind of scepticism towards all types of team building exercises. Here comes the most pertinent question; if games and group activities cannot transform a group of employees into a cohesive team, then what else can achieve this?

  1. alter

  2. renovate

  3. convert

  4. innovate
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Transform means to change the form, appearance, or nature of something. The passage asks what can 'convert' a quarrelling group into a cohesive team. 'Convert' is the best synonym - changing the group's fundamental nature from disorganized to unified. 'Alter' suggests minor changes, 'renovate' applies to buildings, and 'innovate' means to introduce something new.

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