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Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

The sky is quite overcast. We’re ______ to have rain today.

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SSC CGL 2018 (Tier 2) Statistics Previous Year Paper (22-feb-2018)
The correct answer is

likely

The structure "be + ___ + to + verb" requires an adjective of probability. Only likely fits this pattern: "We're likely to have rain today" — a standard idiom expressing high probability, matching the cue "sky is quite overcast".

"Probably" and "surely" are adverbs that do not take the "be ___ to" structure; "mostly" indicates proportion, not probability. Hence likely.

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