سوال ۳ کنکور ارشد علوم کامپیوتر ۱۳۹۷
Choose the word or the phrase that best completes the blank.
The chef furnished his assistant with very explicit instructions regarding the ______ to be used for the new dish.
پاسخ صحیح: گزینهٔ D — ingredients
The sentence describes a chef giving instructions to an assistant about what “is to be used for the new dish.” The things used in (and combined to make) a dish are its ingredients — the foods and substances that go into a recipe. This is the natural collocation: the ingredients to be used for the dish.
Why the others fail:
- properties — characteristics/qualities of something; you don’t “use properties” in a dish.
- aesthetics — principles of beauty/appearance; not items used to cook with.
- ceremonies — formal rituals/events; unrelated to cooking components.
Only ingredients fits both the meaning (cooking components) and the structure (things to be used for the dish), so the answer is option 4.
Exam trick: Anchor on the most concrete content word — here “dish” — and ask which option is literally used to make it. Cooking + “used for the dish” → ingredients.