IPMAT Indore 2022 · Verbal Ability · Question 18

Blank 1 — what kind of promotional messages? The sentence goes on to say that someone is trying to stop them, so the adjective must be negative — specifically, it must explain why they are unwanted:

unsolicited ✔ — not asked for. This is the defining feature of spam and the precise reason it is blocked.

informative (c) and educational (d) are positive; nobody deploys technology to stop informative messages.

inescapable (b) is negative but describes the result rather than the nature of the messages, and it sits oddly beside “commercial and…”.

Blank 2 — who tries to stop it? The slot needs an agent who “used more technology to stop this”:

regulators ✔ — the bodies that police unsolicited commercial messaging.

firewalls (d) ✘ — a firewall is a tool, not an actor; and the sentence contrasts this party with the one that “finds ways around it”, which requires people on both sides.

Blank 3 — who evades the controls?

spammers ✔ — the senders of unsolicited messages, the natural counterpart to regulators.

advertisers (b) and promoters (c) are neutral, legitimate roles; they would not be described as finding ways around controls.

hackers (d) belong to a different domain — intrusion, not bulk messaging.

Consistent throughout: unsolicited; regulators; spammers.

Answer: Option 1

Shortcut. Blank 1 is a pure polarity test. Something is being stopped, so the adjective must be negative — and informative and educational are positive. Options (c) and (d) go immediately.

Then blank 2 kills (d) a second time on a category error: a firewall is a piece of software, but the sentence needs an agent that uses technology. Check that each option supplies the right kind of thing — actor, tool, action — before weighing nuance.

The three blanks here form a single coherent story — unsolicited mail, regulators fighting it, spammers evading them. In a multi-blank cloze, the right option reads as one story; the wrong ones mix registers or domains.