سوال ۱ کنکور ارشد مهندسی مکانیک ۱۴۰۱
PART A: Vocabulary
Directions: Choose the word or the phrase (1), (2), (3), or (4) that best completes the blank. Then mark the correct choice on your answer sheet.
The rising death toll is ---------- largely to the growing number of elderly people, who are especially vulnerable to the flu.
پاسخ صحیح: گزینهٔ C — attributed
Option 3: attributed. Attribute an outcome to a cause means explain that outcome as resulting from that cause. In the passive form, the death toll is attributed to the growing elderly population. Death toll means the number of deaths, and the following relative clause explains why this population is relevant: elderly people are particularly vulnerable to influenza.
- 1) converted: Means changed into a different form or state. A death count is not being converted into an elderly population.
- 2) transferred: Means moved or passed from one place or person to another. The sentence identifies a cause, not a destination for a transfer.
- 4) debilitated: Means weakened or made feeble. It can describe a person weakened by illness, but not a death count explained by a demographic cause.
Exam trick: In be attributed to, to introduces the cause; do not confuse it with the destination in be transferred to.