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HOW MUCH DIFFICULT ARE THESE MOCKS FROM REGULAR EXAM?

Question:

DIRECTIONS: In each of the following questions, a part of the sentence is Bold. Below each sentence are given some possible substitutions for the bold part. If one of them is better than the bold part, indicate your response against the corresponding letter. If none of the options improve the sentence choose “No correction required” as your answer. 

The company was absorbed into a large conglomerate and most of its employees were in a cast.

Options:
A) and most of its employees had cast a spell on it 
B) and most of its employees had been casting a spell on it 
C) and most of its employees were often cast as
D) and most of its employees cast adrift.
E) No correction required 
Solution:

Cast somebody adrift means to stop supporting someone, or to leave someone without any support or purpose.

Eg: While the government does not have the power to remove him, the damaging claims may persuade them to cast him adrift.

If a part of your body is in a cast, it has a plaster cast around it to protect it while a broken bone repairs itself, as for example: My leg was in a cast for about six weeks.

Cast as a verb means to choose actors to play particular parts in a play, film, or show.

He was often cast as the villain.

cast a spell means to use words thought to be magic, especially in order to have an effect on someone:

cast doubt/suspicion on sb/sth means to make people feel less sure about or have less trust in something or someone

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