Multiple choice

Directions: In the question, there are four sentences. Each sentence has a pair of words/phrases marked as ‘A’ and ‘B’ that are highlighted. Select the most appropriate word or phrase to form grammatically and syntactically correct sentences. Then, from the options that follow, choose the correct one.

(i) There were (A) cables (B) cabal for telephones, lights and computers all over the floor. (ii) What (A) earthly (B) earthy reason can she have for being so horrible to me? (iii) She wrote an (A) elegy (B) eulogy to be sung on the funeral of the great traveler. (iv) The police are trying to stop the (A) elicit (B) illicit trade in stolen vehicles.

  1. AAAB

  2. BABB

  3. ABBA

  4. BBBB

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A Correct answer
Explanation

Cable means wire strands and cabal means small group of persons. Earthly means worldly and earthy means like earth or soil. Elegy means a poem or song of lament and praise for the dead, and eulogy means speech or writing in praise. Elicit means to evoke and illicit means illegal.