سوال ۲ کنکور ارشد ریاضی ۱۴۰۱

The decisive clues are the agent by the landlord and the cause after not paying their rent for six months. The verb must mean to legally force a tenant out of a property, which is exactly evict.

• (3) evicted — to expel a tenant from a rented property by legal process; the standard collocation is evicted by the landlord for non-payment of rent. Correct.
• (1) extended — to make longer or larger (a deadline, a lease). A landlord could extend a lease, but that is a reward, not a consequence of six months of unpaid rent, and it takes an object like the lease, not the couple.
• (2) elicited — to draw out a response, information or a reaction (elicit an answer). Its object is a reaction, never a person, so the couple were elicited is ungrammatical in sense.
• (4) evacuated — to remove people from a place because of danger (fire, flood, war), typically by authorities. It is the classic look-alike trap for evict: same e-v-a/i shape, but it lacks the tenancy/legal meaning and no danger is mentioned here.

Exam trick: evict vs evacuate is a recurring konkur near-pair. Ask why people are being removed: for breaking a tenancy/contract → evict; because the place is unsafe → evacuate.