In the passage given below there are 8 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Each blank has four alternative words given in options (1), (2), (3) and (4). You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. Mark (5) as your answer if the word given in bold after the blank
In the passage given below there are 8 blanks, each followed by a word given in bold. Each blank has four alternative words given in options (1), (2), (3) and (4). You have to tell which word will best suit the respective blank. Mark (5) as your answer if the word given in bold after the blank is your answer. i.e. No Change Required.
You may have heard mention of the word Holocaust in your History or English classes. The Holocaust took place from 1939-1945. It was an attempt by the Nazi party to purify the human race, by ___(A)___ [assimilating] Jews, Gypsies, Catholics, homosexuals and others they deemed inferior to their “perfect” Aryan race. The Nazis used Concentration Camps, which were sometimes used as Death Camps, to ___(B)___ [terminate] the people they held in the camps. The saddest fact about the Holocaust was the over one million children under the age of sixteen died in a Nazi concentration camp. Just a few weeks before World War II was over, Anne Frank was one of those children to die. Before the Nazi party began its ___(C)___ [resurrection] of the Jews, Anne Frank had a happy life. She was born in June of 1929. In June of 1942, for her 13th birthday, she was given a simple present which would go onto impact the lives of millions of people around the world. That gift was a small red diary that she called Kitty. This diary was to become Anne’s most treasured ___(D)___ [probation] when she and her family hid from the Nazi’s in a secret ___(E)___ [annex] above her father’s office building in Amsterdam. Here, Anne, her sister Margot, her parents, another family, and an elderly Jewish dentist hid from the Nazis for 25 months. They were never permitted to go outside and their food and supplies were brought to them by Miep Gies and her husband, who did not believe in the Nazi persecution of the Jews. It was a very difficult life for young Anne and she used Kitty as an outlet to ___(F)___ [inscribe] her life in hiding. After 2 years, Anne and her family were betrayed and arrested by the Nazis. To this day, nobody is exactly sure who betrayed the Frank family and the other residents. Anne, her mother, and her sister were separated from Otto Frank, Anne’s father. Then, Anne and Margot were separated from their mother. In March of 1945, Margot Frank died of ___(G)___ [infectious] in a Concentration Camp. A few days later, at the age of 15, Anne Frank died of typhus. Of all the people who hid in the Annex, only Otto Frank ___(H)___ [revived] the Holocaust.
Which of the following words most appropriately fits the blank labelled (G)?
1). Demotion
2). Hibernation
3). Starvation
4). Aestivation
1 answers
The correct word here is 'starvation.’ This is the only valid reason that cause death out of the given options. Starvation means ‘extreme hunger.’ So option 3 is correct. Grammatically ‘infection’ could have been correct, since infection can kill people, but infectious is an adjective and therefore ruled out.
Demotion: opposite of promotion
Hibernation: winter sleep
Aestivation: summer sleep