Question : Comprehension:
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
His only (1)_____ was that he had no rifle. While running away from the village below, he had forgotten the rifle in a hurry. An unpardonable (2)_____, but it was now too late to make amends for it. (3)_____ he had the rifle, his pursuers would not have dared follow him with such brazen confidence. He would have hidden behind a rock and waited for them. As they came within his rifle's range, he would have picked them off one by one. But now he could do (4)_____ about it. He was unarmed. But come what may, he must (5)_____ of their rifle's range.
Question
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 5.
Option 1: keep from
Option 2: keep within
Option 3: keep out
Option 4: keep of
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Correct Answer: keep out
Solution : The correct choice is the third option.
Keep out means to prevent something or someone from entering or gaining access to an area or space, or in this case, to remain outside of the range of the rifle.
The meanings of the other options are as follows:
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Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 3.
Option 1: Has
Option 2: Had
Option 3: Have
Option 4: Did
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 4.
Option 1: anything
Option 2: something
Option 3: much
Option 4: nothing
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 2.
Option 1: lapse
Option 2: yearn
Option 3: reward
Option 4: crime
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 1.
Option 1: consolation
Option 2: regret
Option 3: shock
Option 4: joy
Harry Potter was first introduced in the novel 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' as an orphan who is (1)________ by his guardian aunt and uncle and their son. On his 11th birthday, Harry discovers that his parents were a witch and a wizard and that he, a wizard himself, has been invited to (2)__________ Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He also learns that his parents had not (3)__________ in a car accident, as his aunt and uncle had told him, but that they instead had been murdered by an evil wizard named Voldemort. Harry was the only person to have ever (4)________ an attack by Voldemort-by somehow (5)_________ the latter's 'killing curse'-which left him with a lightning-bolt-shaped scar on his forehead.
Option 1: perished
Option 2: departed
Option 3: lost
Option 4: vanished
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