سوال ۱ کنکور ارشد فیزیک ۱۴۰۱
The rising death toll is .......... largely to the growing number of elderly people, who are especially vulnerable to the flu.
پاسخ صحیح: گزینهٔ A — attributed
Option 1: attributed. To attribute an effect to a cause is to explain the effect as resulting from that cause. In the passive, the pattern is an effect is attributed to a cause. Here, the increase in deaths is explained largely by the increasing number of elderly people, whose vulnerability to flu supplies the causal link.
The completed phrase is “is attributed largely to the growing number of elderly people.” The adverb “largely” means mainly; it does not change the verb–preposition pattern.
| Other option | Meaning | Why it fails |
|---|---|---|
| 2. converted | changed into a different form, use, or belief | The death toll is not being transformed into a population; the sentence explains its cause. |
| 3. debilitated | weakened physically or made less effective | A death toll is a count, not someone weakened by illness; the relative clause describes the elderly people. |
| 4. transferred | moved from one place, person, or account to another | No movement of the death toll is described. “Transferred to” does not express attribution of a cause. |
Exam trick: Separate the effect from its cause: deaths are the effect, and an ageing population is the proposed cause. This points to “be attributed to.”