Multiple choice

Directions: The sentence below has two blanks, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose the set of words that best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

Many people believed that spices help ______ food; however nutritionists found that most spices were ______ of having any effect on growth of microbes present in the food.

  1. preserve, incapable

  2. produce, impossible

  3. save, preventive

  4. spoil, probable

  5. protect, deprived
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Explanation

Preserve means to protect food from spoiling. Incapable means lacking the ability to do something. The sentence contrasts belief that spices help preserve food with findings that they cannot actually affect microbial growth.

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