سوال ۱ کنکور ارشد علوم کامپیوتر ۱۳۹۷
Animal welfare science is an emerging field that seeks to answer questions ---------- by the keeping and use of animals.
پاسخ صحیح: گزینهٔ A — raised
The fixed collocation is "questions raised by ...", meaning questions that are brought up / posed by something. The sentence states that the field seeks to answer the questions that the keeping and use of animals raise — a past participle reducing the relative clause "questions [that are] raised by ...".
The distractors fail on meaning:
| Option | Meaning | Why it fails |
|---|---|---|
| resolved | answered, solved | The field seeks to answer them, so they are not already resolved (redundant/contradictory). |
| settled | decided, put to rest | Same problem as resolved; questions still open. |
| evolved | developed gradually | "questions evolved by ..." is not idiomatic and does not fit. |
Only raised produces the natural "questions raised by the keeping and use of animals" — the open issues the new field aims to address.
Exam trick: When a sentence says a field seeks to answer / resolve questions, the blank describing those questions must mean "brought up," not "answered" — otherwise the sentence is self-contradictory.