IPMAT Indore 2026 · Verbal Ability · Question 36
IPMAT Indore 2026 previous year question on Cloze Test, with the answer and a step-by-step solution.
Some of the words in the paragraph below are missing. Choose the best option to complete it.
In the hothouse_________of social media, you are filled with envy when you scroll through photos of exotic_________and gleaming houses, but you reassure yourself that only_________people want these things – your humble home is all that you really want.
- A
climate; vistas; ordinary
- B
excitement; locations; overachieving
- C
atmosphere; vacations; superficial
- D
madness; destinations; embarrassing
Answer & solution
Answer: Option C
Blank 1 — the collocation. The fixed phrase is hothouse atmosphere — an intense, overheated environment. “Hothouse climate” is redundant (a hothouse is a climate) and “hothouse madness” is not English.
Blank 2 — what you scroll past. It must pair with “gleaming houses” as a thing people envy. Exotic vacations is the natural pairing; vistas, locations and destinations are all places rather than experiences, and sit oddly beside houses.
Blank 3 — the self-reassurance. You console yourself by thinking less of those who want such things. Only superficial people want these things works perfectly as a dismissal.
ordinary ✗ — being ordinary is no reason for disdain
overachieving ✗ — would be admiring, not dismissive
embarrassing ✗ — wrong form; people are embarrassed, things are embarrassing
Answer: Option 3
Shortcut. Blank 3 carries the sentence’s logic: the clause begins “but you reassure yourself”, so the word must be mildly disparaging. Only superficial dismisses. Confirm with the fixed phrase hothouse atmosphere and you are done.
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