IPMAT Indore 2025 · Verbal Ability · Question 22

IPMAT Indore 2025 previous year question on Cloze Test, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.

Cloze TestVerbal AbilityMultiple choiceMedium
Psychologists urge users to remember that social media rarely reflects the full complexity of real life. Influencers often ____________ a carefully curated online persona, which can ____________ unrealistic standards and occasionally ____________ negative self-comparisons amongst their followers.
  1. A
    endorse; foster; provoke
  2. B
    maintain; generate; trigger
  3. C
    advocate; perpetuate; stimulate
  4. D
    profess; inspire; release
Pick an option, then check.
Answer & solution

Answer: Option B

Blank 1 is decisive. What does an influencer do with a persona? You maintain a persona — keep it up over time. You do not endorse, advocate or profess a persona:

endorse = publicly approve something external (a product, a candidate)

advocate = argue in favour of a cause

profess = claim or declare openly, often insincerely, and it takes beliefs or feelings, not personas

Blank 2 — the persona generates unrealistic standards. (Foster and perpetuate are defensible, but perpetuate implies the standards already existed, and inspire in option 4 is positively loaded, which clashes with “unrealistic”.)

Blank 3 — trigger negative self-comparisons. Standard psychological collocation. (Release in option 4 is wrong — you do not release a comparison.)

Option 2 is the only one natural in all three slots, and the only one whose first blank collocates correctly with “persona”.

Answer: Option 2 — maintain; generate; trigger

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