Reading
Choose words from dropdowns to complete a passage — tests reading and writing together.
Choose the word that best completes each blank.
The committee reached a _____ decision after three hours of debate, though several members later expressed _____ about the timeline.
unanimous / reservations
'Unanimous decision' is a fixed collocation; 'united' does not collocate with 'decision'. 'Express reservations' is likewise fixed and takes the plural.
Read from start to finish before touching a dropdown, skipping over the gaps. You need the argument in your head first, because later sentences routinely settle earlier blanks and no gap here can be judged from its own line alone.
At each blank, work out the part of speech and whether the sentence wants a positive or negative sense, before you open the dropdown. Deciding first stops the options from steering you, which is exactly what the distractors are written to do.
Open the dropdown and eliminate anything of the wrong word class. Where two options remain grammatically possible, take the one that forms the ordinary partnership with the neighbouring words, since that is what this task is testing rather than meaning in isolation.
Read your finished version through once for sense. Every blank is credited independently, so leave nothing unselected even where you are unsure, and give this task the time it deserves relative to the shorter multiple-choice items in the section.
Read the whole passage first for meaning, then work blank by blank using collocation and part of speech. When two options both fit grammatically, the one that fits the surrounding collocation is nearly always correct.
Answering each blank in isolation. Later sentences frequently disambiguate earlier gaps.