سوال ۱ کنکور ارشد مدیریت کسبوکار (MBA) ۱۴۰۳
اهمیت
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Between now and 2030, urban areas .......... to triple in surface, and by 2050, 68% of the population will reside in cities.
پاسخ صحیح: گزینهٔ C — are expected
پاسخ تشریحی
Answer: option 3 — are expected supplies the finite passive verb (فعل مجهولِ صرفشده): urban areas are expected to triple. The areas are the subject of a prediction made by others; they do not themselves expect anything. The pattern is subject + be + expected + to-infinitive.
- (1) expected: a past participle alone cannot form the required passive predicate; it needs are.
- (2) expecting: an -ing form alone is not a finite predicate; are expecting would also make the areas the agents of expecting.
- (4) have expected: is active present perfect and assigns the act of expecting to the urban areas.
Exam trick: When the subject is being predicted to change, use is/are expected to + verb.
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