سوال ۱ کنکور ارشد ریاضی ۱۴۰۰

اهمیت

۰/۵

I ---------- the argument because I didn't know enough about the subject.

پاسخ صحیح: گزینهٔ C — dropped

پاسخ تشریحی

The reason clause — because I didn't know enough about the subject — says the speaker had to stop/abandon the argument. drop (an argument / a subject / a case) = to stop pursuing or discussing something ("let's drop it"), which is exactly the consequence of not knowing enough, so option 3 is correct.

Why the others fail:

Option	Meaning	Why it fails
1) depicted	portrayed, represented (in words or a picture)	You depict a scene or a character, not an argument you are having; and depicting something does not follow from ignorance.
2) confronted	faced or challenged head-on	The opposite direction: someone who lacks knowledge does not press the confrontation — because would then make no sense.
4) broached	raised/brought up (a topic) for the first time	Also contradicts the reason clause: you would not introduce a subject you know too little about; broach marks the START of a discussion, not its end.

Exam trick: solve these from the connector. Because + lack of knowledge forces a verb of giving up, so only "dropped" can be right; "broached" is the deliberate trap, since it is the one verb that also collocates with a topic but points to the opposite moment in the conversation.

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