Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. Five words/ phrases have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
Jerimoth Hill (812 ft, 247 m) is the highest point in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. (1) town of Foster near Providence, the site is used as an observatory. It is also a (2) highpointers, and prior to 2005 was known for being difficult to access due to a local landowner who prohibited entry. The hill is located on Route 101 in Foster, a half mile from the Connecticut line. To (3), for which there is a sign, there is a .3-mile (480 m) long trail that has a mere 10-foot (3.0 m) elevation gain. The mountain is 812 feet (247 m) high and is located 15 miles (24 km) west of Providence, Rhode Island, and 35 miles (56 km) east of Willimantic, Connecticut. The high point was donated to Brown University by Walter Raymond Turner, a Brown alumnus of the class of 1911. In 1938 (4) saltbox house to the west and the surrounding 360 acres (150 ha). Turner provided a right of way, straight north from the high point to Route 101, though eventually (5).
Find out the appropriate word for blank 2.
Explanation:
Correct Answer is (b).Highpointing is a sport of ascending to the point with highest elevation and highpointers are the people taking part in it, it’s not a place so ‘famous at’ can be left out. The blank as ‘a’ in front of it which doesn’t go with ‘very greatly known by’. It must be eliminated as well. Since the option D starts with a vowel sound there must be an ‘an’ in front of which, but there isn’t so option D must be eliminated as well. Again, option E has ‘through’ and it doesn’t fit well with ‘highpointers’ as those are human beings, so it can be eliminated as well. ‘Popular destination for highpointers’ seems grammatically correct as well as it makes sense. Hence the correct answer is option B.