NDA (II) 2023 GAT Q2: Given the scale of the challenges that __________ us today,

Q: What is the answer to NDA (II) 2023 GAT Q2?

C. Correct — C, 'confronts'. To confront someone is to face them as a problem or an opponent, and that is what a challenge does, so 'the challenges that confront us today' is the ordinary way to speak of problems facing a group now. The rest of the sentence, where the company answers with viable plans, only makes sense if the blank names something hostile that has to be met.

NDA (II) 2023 General Ability Test · Question 2 of 146

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Given the scale of the challenges that __________ us today, our company proposes more viable plans for sustainability.

(a)supports
(b)conflict
(c)confronts
(d)convince

Answer

Why

Correct — C, 'confronts'. To confront someone is to face them as a problem or an opponent, and that is what a challenge does, so 'the challenges that confront us today' is the ordinary way to speak of problems facing a group now. The rest of the sentence, where the company answers with viable plans, only makes sense if the blank names something hostile that has to be met.

Why the others are wrong

(a)supports — It reverses the relationship. A challenge is something a company has to answer, not something that props it up.
(b)conflict — 'Conflict' needs 'with' before a person or group, so 'challenges that conflict us' is not English.
(d)convince — To convince is to persuade someone of an argument, and a challenge does not argue a case.

Concept

The item tests which verb goes with 'challenges' when the challenges are acting on people rather than being acted on.

Strict agreement would want the plural 'confront' after the plural antecedent 'challenges', and the option prints 'confronts'. The official key marks C all the same, and the four options are split between singular and plural forms anyway, so number cannot be what separates them. Choose on sense and collocation instead.

Key facts

'Confront' takes a direct object — problems confront people.
'Conflict' is followed by 'with' when it names the party involved.

Study next

Verb and noun collocations with 'challenge', 'problem' and 'crisis'Verbs that need a preposition before their objectReading the second clause for the sense of the blank

Common traps

Choosing by verb ending instead of by meaning when the options mix singular and plural forms.
Accepting 'conflict' without checking that it needs 'with'.

Asked as a fill-in-the-blank item — choose the word that completes the sentence.

Related PYQs

No directly related past PYQ was found.

Practice

practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the word that best completes the sentence. The water crisis that __________ the city has forced a rationing plan.
- (a)supports
- (b)confronts
- (c)convinces
- (d)conflicts
Answer(b) confronts — a crisis confronts the people who have to face it.
practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the word that best completes the sentence. The new evidence __________ with the earlier report.
- (a)conflicts
- (b)confronts
- (c)confuses
- (d)convinces
Answer(a) conflicts — 'conflict' is followed by 'with' before the thing it clashes against.