سوال ۳ کنکور ارشد ریاضی ۱۴۰۳
Many of these popular best-sellers will soon become dated and ................, and will eventually go out of print.
پاسخ صحیح: گزینهٔ A — irrelevant
This is a vocabulary / sentence-completion item. The blank is joined by and to the adjective dated and leads into the consequence will eventually go out of print. The three words in this coordinated chain must be consistent in meaning: the books grow out of date, so the blank must reinforce the idea of losing value/relevance.
- (1) irrelevant — “no longer relevant or applicable.” This fits perfectly: dated and irrelevant → naturally go out of print.
- (2) permanent — “lasting forever.” Contradicts dated and go out of print.
- (3) fascinating — “intensely interesting,” a positive quality; a fascinating book would stay in print, so it clashes with the sentence’s downward trajectory.
- (4) paramount — “supremely important.” Also positive and inconsistent with becoming outdated.
Only irrelevant preserves the logical parallelism (dated → irrelevant → out of print), so the answer is option 1.
Exam trick: In a coordinated pair like “X and ___,” the missing word almost always matches the polarity (positive/negative) of X. Here dated is negative and is reinforced by the outcome out of print, so eliminate every positive adjective at once.