سوال ۳ کنکور ارشد فیزیک ۱۴۰۳
Many of these popular best-sellers will soon become dated and .........., and will eventually go out of print.
پاسخ صحیح: گزینهٔ A — irrelevant
Option 1: irrelevant. Dated means out of date, and irrelevant means no longer relevant or applicable to the matter at hand. The sentence predicts that books popular now will lose their timeliness and relevance, and will eventually stop being printed. “Dated and irrelevant” therefore gives two compatible descriptions of their decline.
| Option | Meaning | Why it fails |
|---|---|---|
| 2. permanent | Lasting indefinitely; not temporary | It does not explain the predicted loss of relevance and disappearance from print. |
| 3. fascinating | Extremely interesting or captivating | This positive description gives no reason for the decline described by “dated” and “go out of print.” A dated book can still be fascinating, but that is not the progression conveyed here. |
| 4. paramount | More important than anything else; supreme | Becoming supremely important conflicts with the intended progression toward obsolescence. |
Check: “Will soon” and “will eventually” establish a sequence: lose relevance first, disappear from print later. Option 1 fits that sequence without an unexplained change in direction.
Exam trick: Use the final consequence to constrain the adjective. “Go out of print” helps identify the negative direction of this sentence.