Question

'People are crowding around pit into which elephant has fallen. I have never seen an elephant looking more bewildered miserable. Here it is in a most undignified position, thrust into a pit and made to look up a vast, curiosity-stricken crowd.'

Choose the option with the correct sequence of words to fill the blanks.

• A. an; a; at; and
• B. a; an; and; at
• C. and; a; an; at
• D. at; a; an; and

Hint:

Match each article to the sound that follows it (a/an), and remember "look up at" is the correct phrasal verb for looking upward toward a crowd.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

This question tests three small but common grammar points at once: choosing "a" versus "an" by sound, joining two adjectives correctly, and picking the right preposition to finish a fixed phrase. Go blank by blank instead of judging the whole sentence at once.

1. Blank 1, before "pit": "pit" starts with a consonant sound, so it takes "a," not "an," "and," or "at."
2. Blank 2, before "elephant": "elephant" starts with a vowel sound, so it takes "an," not "a."
3. Blank 3, between "bewildered" and "miserable": these are two separate describing words for the same elephant, so a simple joining word, "and," links them correctly; a preposition like "at" would not make sense here.
4. Blank 4, after "look up": English has a fixed phrase, "look up at," used when looking upward toward someone or something, here the crowd. Neither "to," "in," nor "and" completes this phrase correctly.

Filling the blanks in order gives "a; an; and; at," which is option (B), and reads naturally as: "People are crowding around a pit into which an elephant has fallen ... made to look up at a vast, curiosity-stricken crowd."

Let's summarize:

• Pick "a" or "an" based on the sound of the very next word, not its spelling.
• Learn fixed phrasal verbs like "look up at" as whole units, since the right preposition often cannot be guessed from meaning alone.

The correct sequence of words is "a; an; and; at."