IPMAT Indore 2025 · Verbal Ability · Question 17
IPMAT Indore 2025 previous year question on Cloze Test, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.
- Apleasing; decrease
- Bacceptable; disturb
- Cavoidable; mitigate
- Dtherapeutic; enhance
Answer & solution
Answer: Option D
Read the logic before the vocabulary. The sentence lists three benefits: process complex feelings, reduce stress, and ____ self-awareness. All three are positive outcomes, so the second blank must be a positive verb, and the first blank must name the quality that produces healing.
Blank 1 — “therapeutic” = having a healing effect. Exactly matches “process complex feelings, reduce stress”. ✓
Blank 2 — “enhance” = increase or improve. Self-awareness going up is the natural third benefit. ✓
Why the others fail:
Option | Problem |
|---|---|
pleasing; decrease | decreasing self-awareness is not a benefit |
acceptable; disturb | “acceptable” is far too weak, and disturbing self-awareness is negative |
avoidable; mitigate | “avoidable” is nonsensical here, and you mitigate problems, not self-awareness |
Note how the second blank alone eliminates three options — always scan a cloze for the blank with the clearest logical constraint.
Answer: Option 4 — therapeutic; enhance
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