| DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and select the most suitable option form each list according to the corresponding number in the passage. |
| PASSAGE-1 |
| 1. Once upon a time there was an old man who had seven sons. |
| 2. He lived with them in their good farm and they were considerably well settled as to money and the other necessities of life. |
| 3. He had worked hard all his life and had been a man of means always. |
| 4. A good fortune was yet at his hands and as he was now growing old he wished to make some kind of a settled before going into the great beyond and he gave it much thought. |
| 5. As he thought about the matter he had to come to no other conclusion but that his sons were always querrelling and never could seem to agree on anything amongst themselves. |
| 6. This worried the old man a lot and at last he thought he could try and find some method of showing them how they would not gain anything by arguing among themselves as it would only encourage others to gain what little they might have. |
| 7. So at last he called them all before him as they came in from the field after work. |
| 8. He had the youngest of them all to go gather him seven sticks of small size and he placed them all together and tied them. |
| 9. He then asked his sons to break the bundle of sticks. |
| In sentence 6, the word encourage could best be replace with |
A) forget
B) persuade
C) discourage
D) target
Correct Answer: B
Solution :
In the given lines, the old man is worried that if his sons keep fighting among themselves, they will lose everything they have and others will take advantage of their fights. In sentence 6, the word 'encourage' can easily be replaced with the word 'persuade'. Both the words are synonymous to each other. Persuade means to induce someone to do something through reasoning or argument. And encourage means to persuade others to do or continue to do something by giving support and advice.
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