سوال ۱ کنکور ارشد مهندسی کامپیوتر ۱۴۰۳
But at this point, it's pretty hard to hurt my ………… . I've heard it all, and I'm still here.
پاسخ صحیح: گزینهٔ B — feelings
This is a sentence-completion vocabulary item that hinges on a fixed collocation. The verb hurt combines naturally with feelings: the idiom "to hurt someone's feelings" means to make them sad or offended. The second sentence — "I've heard it all, and I'm still here" — reinforces that the speaker is emotionally unaffected, i.e. their feelings can't easily be hurt.
The distractors do not collocate with hurt my __:
- characterization = the way a character is portrayed — you cannot "hurt" it.
- sentimentality = excessive, exaggerated emotion — wrong nuance and not a hurt collocation.
- pain = hurt already means cause pain, so "hurt my pain" is redundant/illogical.
So the correct choice is feelings (option 2).
Pitfall: The printed answer key lists option 1 (characterization), but "hurt my characterization" is not English; the only idiomatic fit for hurt my __ is feelings. The key appears to be an erratum.