Question

CHOOSE BEST OPTION TO FILL IN THE BLANK.

Yevgeny Salinde, an 11-years-old Russian boy, has (e.g.) _____(B)_____ a 30,000-year-old mammoth carcass near his home in Russia's far north. Experts ___(40)____ this is the second most well ____(41)_____ mammoth specimen ever discovered. A similar find like this hasn't been encountered in a century. ____(42)____ did not only find a skeleton, ____(43)_____ a complete carcass - skin, meat, fat hump, organs and a tusk. Scientists estimate the mammoth was 15 to 16 years old when it succumbed.

Fill in blank 40.

• A. confound
• B. believe
• C. consider
• D. debate

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

believe

Option A) is the best fit for blank #40, making it the correct answer. This is because out of all the options, 'believe' follows the phrase after the blank i.e 'this is the second most' appropriately; that is the individuals believe that it is the second most well preserved mammoth carcass found yet. Believe is preferable here as in science, beliefs are subject to change upon new discoveries - and not debated, considered or confounded. All the other options are incorrect.