IPMAT Indore 2025 · Verbal Ability · Question 4

What the sentence needs. The blank is the third item in a list of things deer do on or around the road: crossing it, standing in the middle of it, or else ____. It must be a plausible deer movement, and the preposition must make physical sense.

The answer. Bounding across the road — to bound is to move in leaps, which is exactly how deer travel, and across matches a road. ✓

Why the others fail:

jumping under the road — nothing can jump under a road; the preposition is impossible.

foraging beneath the road — foraging means searching for food, and beneath a road is not a place deer go.

staggering with the road — with is the wrong preposition, and staggering (walking unsteadily) does not fit healthy deer.

Answer: Option 4 — bounding across the road