سوال ۶۱ کنکور ارشد مدیریت کسبوکار (MBA) ۱۴۰۰
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As thousands of retail leases come up for renewal, their duration is increasingly shrinking, as businesses grapple with an unpredictable future and look for ways .......... costs.
پاسخ صحیح: گزینهٔ B — to slash
پاسخ تشریحی
Answer: option 2 — to slash. The noun complement ways + to-infinitive (متمم مصدریِ اسم) specifies methods for achieving a goal: businesses seek methods to slash costs, meaning to reduce costs sharply.
- (1) by slashing: by + -ing can express a method, but here cutting costs is the goal whose methods are sought. The usual alternative would be ways of slashing costs.
- (3) that slashes: the singular verb slashes disagrees with plural ways.
- (4) that they slash: does not naturally express the prospective purpose after look for ways. A finite alternative would be ways in which they could slash costs.
Exam trick: Learn a way / ways to do something as a noun-plus-infinitive pattern.
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