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Fill in the blank with the most appropriate preposition:

The athlete was disqualified _____ violating the rules of the competition.

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SSC CHSL 2025 Tier 1 Question Paper (21-Nov-2025) (Shift 1)
The correct answer is

for

The blank calls for the preposition that links a penalty to its cause, since the athlete was disqualified because of an offence.

The rule is that the preposition for introduces the reason or ground of an action, especially a punishment, as in 'fined for speeding' or 'praised for honesty'.

So 'disqualified for violating the rules' correctly expresses that the violation was the cause of the disqualification.

'With' would express accompaniment or an instrument, which does not fit a reason.

'To' would signal direction or a purpose ('disqualified to...'), producing a meaningless clause here.

'From' would suggest being barred out of something, but it does not idiomatically pair with 'disqualified' to give a cause before a gerund like 'violating'.

Hence the correct preposition is for.

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