Multiple choice

Directions: For the following question, choose the option that fills up the blanks most correctly.

Millions of years ago, a volcano ________ a mountain on the floor of the Atlantic, in eruption after eruption, it pushed up a great pile of volcanic rock, until it had accumulated a mass a hundred mile across at its base, reaching ________ towards the surface of the sea.

  1. collapsed, laterally

  2. ruptured, transitionally

  3. brazured, downward

  4. built, upward

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The clue for first blank is found in latter part of the sentence as this is an explanation to the first part. 'Pushed up' and 'accumulated a mass' signifies that a volcano built a mountain and not collapsed it as we would have thought. As 'built' is one of our options, hence (4) is the answer.

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