In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. The subjective experience of happiness eludes (1)_____ description and can only be apprehended through the nonverbal manifestation of a (2)______. Similarly, happiness serves as an indicator or marker of a positive and (3)_____ existence. (4)______ happiness is a straightforward process, yet articulating its essence proves to be a (5)______ task.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.
Experiencing
The sentence: ‘(4)______ happiness is a straightforward process, yet articulating its essence proves to be a challenging task.’
The structure decides it. The connector yet sets up a contrast: one thing is easy, another is hard. The hard thing is named — articulating happiness, putting it into words. So the easy thing must be simply having or feeling it.
Experiencing means undergoing or feeling something, giving exactly the required contrast: feeling happiness is easy, describing it is hard.
Why the others fail:
Speaking — would destroy the contrast altogether, since speaking about happiness is the very thing the sentence calls difficult. The sentence would then contradict itself.
Comforting — happiness is not something that needs consolation, so the phrase makes no sense.
Manufacturing — suggests producing happiness industrially, which does not fit the reflective tone of the passage.
Method: where a sentence contains yet, but or whereas, work out what is being contrasted with what. The blank is then filled by whatever completes the opposition.
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