I always felt hungry ________ I heard the dinner bell.
- (a)as much as
- (b)as well as
- (c)as soon as
- (d)as close as
Correct — C, 'as soon as'. The blank has to join two events in time — hunger arriving the very moment the bell was heard — and 'as soon as' is the conjunction of immediate succession. Read aloud, the sentence describes a reflex, and that is precisely what 'as soon as' encodes.
- (a)as much as — This compares quantity or degree, as in 'I like tea as much as coffee', and says nothing about timing.
- (b)as well as — This adds one item to another and works like 'in addition to', so it cannot link the bell to the hunger in time.
- (d)as close as — This measures nearness in space or in likeness and is never used to join two events in a sequence.
The 'as ... as' family looks uniform on the page, yet each member does a different job — comparing, adding, measuring nearness or marking time.
Every option opens with 'as', which is what makes the item feel slippery. Working out what relation the sentence actually needs — here one event following instantly on another — settles the choice before the options are weighed at all.
- 'As soon as' introduces a clause of time meaning immediately when.
- 'As well as' means in addition to.
- 'As much as' compares degree or quantity between two things.
- Choosing 'as well as' because it is the most familiar phrase in the set.
- Failing to ask what relation the two clauses actually need.
Asked as a selecting-words item — pick the group of words that fits the blank.
No directly related past PYQ was found.
- practice — not a real PYQ
________ the bell rang, the students rushed out.
- (a)As much as
- (b)As soon as
- (c)As well as
- (d)As close as
Answer(b) As soon as — it marks one event following immediately on another.
- practice — not a real PYQ
He plays the flute ________ the sitar.
- (a)as soon as
- (b)as much as
- (c)as well as
- (d)as close as
Answer(c) as well as — it adds a second item and means in addition to.