IPMAT Indore 2026 · Verbal Ability · Question 39
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.
Even as technology threatens to alter medicine_________, doctors work with the conviction that they are_________ in matters of prognosis and treatment. History, however, shows that those most invested in their own_________are rarely the best judges of their own irreplaceability.
- A
incredibly; reliable; concerns
- B
invaluably; opportunistic; determination
- C
irrevocably; indispensable; survival
- D
unimaginably; immutable; subculture
Answer & solution
Answer: Option C
Blank 2 is the anchor — work from the last sentence backwards. The paragraph ends on “the best judges of their own irreplaceability”. So the conviction doctors hold must be that they are indispensable. That single match points to option (c).
Blank 1 — how technology alters medicine. Irrevocably — permanently, beyond reversal. This sets up the threat the doctors are resisting. (Incredibly and unimaginably are vague intensifiers; invaluably would be positive, clashing with “threatens”.)
Blank 3 — what they are invested in. Their own survival — professional survival, which is precisely what irreplaceability is about.
Why the others fail. Option (a)’s reliable and option (d)’s immutable do not connect to irreplaceability; option (b)’s opportunistic is pejorative and makes no sense as a self-conviction.
Answer: Option 3
Shortcut. Read to the end before filling anything in. The word irreplaceability in the final clause is a direct synonym clue for blank 2, and indispensable appears in only one option. Cloze passages often hide the key after the last blank.
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