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Question : In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
The Maasais live in (1)_____ very beautiful part of Africa. They live on the wide plains in southern and northern Kenya and northern Tanzania. The area (2)____of miles of rolling grass land, on which you can find thorny bushes and rocky hills. The people move from one place to another according to the seasons, looking for grasses and other plants (3)_____ which their cattle can graze. They have no permanent home. When they want to settle in a place for some time, they build a kind of camp called a 'Manyatta', where a few families live for a (4)____ weeks or months. Then they move on again, taking their few (5)_____ with them, and burning the old 'Manyatta' to the ground.

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Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 2.

 

Option 1: surrounds

Option 2: measures

Option 3: considers

Option 4: consists


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Correct Answer: consists


Solution : The correct answer is the fourth option.

The word consists is the most fitting choice to describe the composition of the area. It indicates that the area is made up of miles of rolling grassland, providing a sense of what the region comprises.

Therefore, the complete sentence is: "The area consists of miles of rolling grassland, on which you can find thorny bushes and rocky hills."

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