In her university research paper, Daniela wrote that she would ____ her conclusions in the final chapter.
Which word completes the academic collocation?
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Respuesta correcta: B)draw
💡 Explicación
Academic writing depends on collocations rather than on single words. 'Draw conclusions' is a high-frequency pair in research English, and learning it as a unit prevents the learner from choosing a verb that is grammatically possible but academically wrong.
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Respuesta correcta: B)draw
A)burglarA burglar is a person who breaks into houses, so the word belongs to crime, not academia.
B)draw'Draw conclusions' is the fixed academic pair meaning to reach a result after examining evidence, and it matches her writing a paper.
C)eat'Eat conclusions' is not an English combination; the verb and the noun do not pair in any register.
D)sleeveA sleeve is part of a garment and has no connection to arguments or evidence.
💡 Explicación
Academic writing depends on collocations rather than on single words. 'Draw conclusions' is a high-frequency pair in research English, and learning it as a unit prevents the learner from choosing a verb that is grammatically possible but academically wrong.
Pregunta 2
Pregunta 2 · D3Bloom: Apply
The thesis committee asked the student to ____ a clear definition of the key term.
Which phrase completes the sentence correctly?
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Respuesta correcta: C)provide
💡 Explicación
The exam tests whether the learner knows the verb that goes with the noun in an academic request. Only 'provide' forms the standard collocation here, and the other options are word forms that cannot serve as the main verb of the clause.
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Respuesta correcta: C)provide
A)providing'Providing' is a gerund and cannot follow 'asked the student to' without a preposition.
B)providely'Providely' is an adverb of manner and cannot act as the verb the sentence requires.
C)provide'Provide a definition' is the natural academic combination, and the committee is asking for that definition.
D)provide off'Provide off' is not a phrasal verb in English, so it cannot complete any sentence of this kind.
💡 Explicación
The exam tests whether the learner knows the verb that goes with the noun in an academic request. Only 'provide' forms the standard collocation here, and the other options are word forms that cannot serve as the main verb of the clause.
Pregunta 3
Pregunta 3 · D4Bloom: Analyze
A reviewer commented on a paper about coral bleaching in the Caribbean coast.
Which pair is a correct academic collocation?
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Respuesta correcta: C)carry out an analysis
💡 Explicación
Collocation errors in academic English usually involve a verb that is correct English but belongs to another field. The exercise trains the learner to attach methods of study to verbs of execution such as 'carry out', 'conduct' and 'perform'.
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Respuesta correcta: C)carry out an analysis
A)sleep an analysis'Sleep' takes a person or a duration as object, not an abstract academic process.
B)wash an analysis'Wash' pairs with clothes, dishes or money, and never with a noun that names a method of study.
C)carry out an analysis'Carry out an analysis' is the standard way of describing research activity in academic English.
D)eat an analysis'Eat' pairs with food and cannot be used for intellectual work, however odd the context.
💡 Explicación
Collocation errors in academic English usually involve a verb that is correct English but belongs to another field. The exercise trains the learner to attach methods of study to verbs of execution such as 'carry out', 'conduct' and 'perform'.
Pregunta 4
Pregunta 4 · D4Bloom: Analyze
A historical essay compares the trade routes of two colonial ports in the region.
Which sentence uses a collocation correctly?
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Respuesta correcta: A)The essay makes a comparison between the two ports.
💡 Explicación
Spanish 'hacer una comparación' is a calque that produces 'make a compare' in English. Academic English requires the nominal form 'comparison' with the noun, and knowing the noun as a fixed piece of vocabulary is what prevents the error.
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Respuesta correcta: A)The essay makes a comparison between the two ports.
A)The essay makes a comparison between the two ports.'Make a comparison' pairs a verb with a noun, which is the standard academic construction.
B)The essay makes a compare between the two ports.'Make a compare' uses a verb where the noun is required, and 'compare' is the verb in English.
C)The essay makes the compare of the two ports.'The compare of' treats a verb as if it were the noun form, a transfer from Spanish usage.
D)The essay makes comparing between the two ports.'Make comparing' needs a preposition after the gerund and has no object here.
💡 Explicación
Spanish 'hacer una comparación' is a calque that produces 'make a compare' in English. Academic English requires the nominal form 'comparison' with the noun, and knowing the noun as a fixed piece of vocabulary is what prevents the error.
Pregunta 5
Pregunta 5 · D4Bloom: Understand
In the discussion section, the author explains that the results are ____ with earlier studies.
Which adverb completes the sentence?
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Respuesta correcta: C)consistent
💡 Explicación
Adjective plus preposition combinations such as 'consistent with', 'responsible for' or 'aware of' are collocations of three words, not two. Mastering the whole phrase is what allows a student to describe a relationship between findings instead of translating word by word.
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Respuesta correcta: C)consistent
A)consistence'Consistence' is a noun meaning existence, and it is not an adverb.
B)consistently-inA hyphenated form built from the adverb has no place after the verb 'are'.
C)consistent'Consistent with' is the fixed prepositional collocation used to compare results with previous research.
D)consist'Consist' is the verb and cannot modify the noun 'results' in this position.
💡 Explicación
Adjective plus preposition combinations such as 'consistent with', 'responsible for' or 'aware of' are collocations of three words, not two. Mastering the whole phrase is what allows a student to describe a relationship between findings instead of translating word by word.
Pregunta 6
Pregunta 6 · D5Bloom: Apply
The ministry published a report on public spending in education.
The ministry intends to ____ the findings of the audit.
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Respuesta correcta: D)publish
💡 Explicación
Reporting verbs such as 'publish', 'present' and 'report' take findings, data or results as their object in research English. Choosing the right one is a matter of collocation rather than grammar, which is exactly what an academic writing course teaches.
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Respuesta correcta: D)publish
A)publish off'Publish off' is not an English phrasal verb and cannot follow an infinitive in this way.
B)publisher'Publisher' is a noun for a company that issues books, not a verb for a ministry.
C)publishing'Publishing' is a gerund and would need 'to' before it in the phrase 'intends to'.
D)publish'Publish the findings' is the natural combination in official reports, since the ministry makes the results public.
💡 Explicación
Reporting verbs such as 'publish', 'present' and 'report' take findings, data or results as their object in research English. Choosing the right one is a matter of collocation rather than grammar, which is exactly what an academic writing course teaches.
Pregunta 7
Pregunta 7 · D5Bloom: Analyze
A student writes about the influence of social media on teenagers.
Which phrase is the natural English collocation for what the student does in the introduction?
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Respuesta correcta: D)state the thesis clearly
💡 Explicación
An essay in English is expected to state a thesis, argue a case and draw a conclusion, and each verb is fixed to its object. Students who translate from Spanish often search for the noun and choose any verb, and this item marks that habit as wrong.
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Respuesta correcta: D)state the thesis clearly
A)eat the thesis clearly'Eat' never pairs with a thesis, since the verb belongs to the domain of food.
B)slept the thesis clearly'Slept' requires a person or a duration as its object and cannot express a scholarly act.
C)thieving the thesis clearly'Thieving' is not a verb form used with a thesis, and it describes theft in any case.
D)state the thesis clearly'State a thesis' is the fixed academic phrase used in essay introductions.
💡 Explicación
An essay in English is expected to state a thesis, argue a case and draw a conclusion, and each verb is fixed to its object. Students who translate from Spanish often search for the noun and choose any verb, and this item marks that habit as wrong.
Pregunta 8
Pregunta 8 · D5Bloom: Analyze
Two research groups were comparing their measurements of rainfall over ten years.
The second team was asked to ____ the results of the first team before publication.
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Respuesta correcta: A)verify
💡 Explicación
Before publication, a team must verify data, confirm results or validate a model, and the choice among those verbs matters. Each of them is a collocation that names a slightly different scientific check, and this item selects the right one for accuracy.
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Respuesta correcta: A)verify
A)verify'Verify the results' is the correct collocation: to check that data are accurate before release.
B)verify off'Verify off' is not a standard phrase in English and cannot express an academic check.
C)verification'Verification' is a noun, so it cannot follow the auxiliary 'to' as a main verb.
D)verify up'Verify up' is not an idiom, and 'up' adds no meaning to this verb in any register.
💡 Explicación
Before publication, a team must verify data, confirm results or validate a model, and the choice among those verbs matters. Each of them is a collocation that names a slightly different scientific check, and this item selects the right one for accuracy.
Pregunta 9
Pregunta 9 · D5Bloom: Evaluate
An abstract summarises a study of soil degradation in the Central Valley.
Which sentence uses academic collocations correctly throughout?
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Respuesta correcta: A)The study examines the problem and reaches a conclusion based on field data.
💡 Explicación
Academic sentences are evaluated as whole combinations rather than as a sum of correct words. A sentence can have perfect grammar and still sound wrong because two of its verbs are attached to the wrong nouns, and this item makes that habit visible.
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Respuesta correcta: A)The study examines the problem and reaches a conclusion based on field data.
A)The study examines the problem and reaches a conclusion based on field data.Both verbs are fixed to their nouns in research English: 'examine a problem' and 'reach a conclusion'.
B)The study eats the problem and sleeps a conclusion based on field data.Eating a problem and sleeping a conclusion are word combinations that no speaker of English produces.
C)The study examines the problem and reaches a conclusion based on field eat.Field data are collected and measured, not eaten, so the last noun breaks the collocation.
D)The study examines the eat and reaches a conclusion based on field data.The object of 'examine' must be a phenomenon, not food, which makes the sentence meaningless.
💡 Explicación
Academic sentences are evaluated as whole combinations rather than as a sum of correct words. A sentence can have perfect grammar and still sound wrong because two of its verbs are attached to the wrong nouns, and this item makes that habit visible.
Pregunta 10
Pregunta 10 · D5Bloom: Understand
The teacher asked the class to ____ the readings assigned for Friday.
Which word completes the phrase in an academic classroom?
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Respuesta correcta: B)complete
💡 Explicación
'Complete a reading' and 'finish the assignment' are the pairs Costa Rican students hear in class every week. The three distractors are content words from other areas, which tests whether the learner selected by meaning or merely by shape.
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Respuesta correcta: B)complete
A)burglarA burglar is a criminal, and the word cannot complete any instruction given by a teacher.
B)complete'Complete the readings' is the standard classroom collocation for finishing assigned texts.
C)eat'Eat the readings' is not English; the verb belongs to food, not to pages.
D)sleeveA sleeve belongs to clothing, so it has no meaning in a study instruction.
💡 Explicación
'Complete a reading' and 'finish the assignment' are the pairs Costa Rican students hear in class every week. The three distractors are content words from other areas, which tests whether the learner selected by meaning or merely by shape.
Pregunta 11
Pregunta 11 · D6Bloom: Apply
A government agency is examining why certain species are disappearing from the watershed.
The agency must ____ the causes of the decline before it proposes measures.
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Respuesta correcta: C)assess
💡 Explicación
Institutional reports rely on the collocations 'assess the causes', 'identify the factors' and 'measure the impact'. Each verb names a different intellectual operation, and choosing the right one is what makes a policy document sound professional.
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Respuesta correcta: C)assess
A)assessor'Assessor' is a person who evaluates, so it cannot follow the infinitive marker 'to' as a verb.
B)assessment'Assessment' is the noun for the process and does not serve as the main verb of the sentence.
C)assess'Assess the causes' is the correct collocation in policy research, meaning to evaluate them carefully.
D)assess off'Assess off' is not an English phrase and cannot complete the clause.
💡 Explicación
Institutional reports rely on the collocations 'assess the causes', 'identify the factors' and 'measure the impact'. Each verb names a different intellectual operation, and choosing the right one is what makes a policy document sound professional.
Pregunta 12
Pregunta 12 · D6Bloom: Analyze
A doctoral student compares her hypothesis with three earlier theories.
Which word links the hypothesis to the theories in the correct academic way?
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Respuesta correcta: D)contrasts with
💡 Explicación
Comparative academic sentences need a linking expression that names the relation being described. The item contrasts a correct verb plus preposition with two wrong word forms and one invented adverb, which is the typical shape of this error in student writing.
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Respuesta correcta: D)contrasts with
A)contrasts off'Contrast off' is not idiomatic in English and would not be understood by a reader.
B)contrasted'Contrasted' is a past participle and cannot follow the verb 'compares' in this structure.
C)contrastingly'Contrastingly' is not an English adverb; 'by contrast' is the phrase used instead.
D)contrasts with'Contrast with' is the standard phrase for placing two ideas side by side so the differences show.
💡 Explicación
Comparative academic sentences need a linking expression that names the relation being described. The item contrasts a correct verb plus preposition with two wrong word forms and one invented adverb, which is the typical shape of this error in student writing.
Pregunta 13
Pregunta 13 · D6Bloom: Evaluate
A laboratory technician repeats an experiment three times to be sure of the result.
Which sentence describes her method with correct collocations?
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Respuesta correcta: A)She carried out the procedure three times and recorded the results each time.
💡 Explicación
Method sections of research articles are built from repeated collocations such as 'carry out', 'record' and 'observe'. An item that asks the learner to judge a whole sentence trains the eye for these pairs rather than for a single verb.
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Respuesta correcta: A)She carried out the procedure three times and recorded the results each time.
A)She carried out the procedure three times and recorded the results each time.'Carry out a procedure' and 'record results' are both fixed academic pairs, so the sentence is natural.
B)She carried out the procedure three times and recorded the foods each time.'Foods' cannot replace 'results' here, because no food is produced by an experiment in this context.
C)She ate the procedure three times and recorded the results each time.A procedure is a method, not something to eat, so the first verb breaks the collocation.
D)She carried out the procedure three times and recorded each time the results.The final adverbial has been left without its noun, which leaves the object of 'recorded' unclear.
💡 Explicación
Method sections of research articles are built from repeated collocations such as 'carry out', 'record' and 'observe'. An item that asks the learner to judge a whole sentence trains the eye for these pairs rather than for a single verb.
Pregunta 14
Pregunta 14 · D6Bloom: Analyze
A newspaper explains that the university will open a new research centre next year.
The university plans to ____ a centre for environmental studies.
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Respuesta correcta: C)establish
💡 Explicación
Institutional announcements prefer 'establish', 'open' or 'launch' to 'make' or 'do'. The item asks the learner to select the verb that sounds like professional English and rejects the other word forms of the same stem.
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Respuesta correcta: C)establish
A)establishing'Establishing' is a gerund and needs 'to' before it, which the sentence does not have.
B)established'Established' is a past participle and would need an auxiliary verb in a future plan.
C)establish'Establish a centre' is the collocation used in announcements about new institutions.
D)establish off'Establish off' has no meaning in English and cannot follow an infinitive marker.
💡 Explicación
Institutional announcements prefer 'establish', 'open' or 'launch' to 'make' or 'do'. The item asks the learner to select the verb that sounds like professional English and rejects the other word forms of the same stem.
Pregunta 15
Pregunta 15 · D6Bloom: Understand
A reader describes how the author of the article organises her evidence.
In the sentence 'The author arranges her evidence in three sections', what collocation appears?
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Respuesta correcta: D)arrange evidence
💡 Explicación
Two things combine here: a verb that names organisation and a noun that is uncountable. Students who insert an article before 'evidence' reveal that they have learned the word as a countable noun, and the collocation exercise corrects both habits at once.
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Respuesta correcta: D)arrange evidence
A)arrange the evidence wronglyAdding 'wrongly' introduces a judgement that the original sentence does not contain.
B)an evidence'Evidence' is uncountable in English and never takes the article 'an'.
C)arrangement of evidence wrongly'Arrangement' is the noun form and cannot act as the verb of the sentence.
D)arrange evidence'Arrange evidence' pairs a verb of organisation with the noun that names what is organised.
💡 Explicación
Two things combine here: a verb that names organisation and a noun that is uncountable. Students who insert an article before 'evidence' reveal that they have learned the word as a countable noun, and the collocation exercise corrects both habits at once.
Pregunta 16
Pregunta 16 · D7Bloom: Evaluate
A review of a biology paper describes the argument it makes about forest regeneration.
Which sentence presents a typical academic collocation problem?
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Respuesta correcta: A)The paper makes a research about tree recovery in the region.
💡 Explicación
The task is to detect the odd one out among four sentences that are all grammatically correct. Only the first breaks the collocational pattern, because 'make' does not go with the noun 'research' in English.
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Respuesta correcta: A)The paper makes a research about tree recovery in the region.
A)The paper makes a research about tree recovery in the region.'Make a research' is a calque of Spanish and is not an English collocation; English says 'conduct research'.
B)The paper carries out a study of tree recovery in the region.'Carry out a study' is a standard pair and would be perfectly acceptable in a review.
C)The paper presents evidence of tree recovery in the region.'Present evidence' is a fixed academic combination and would not be faulted.
D)The paper discusses recovery of trees in the region.'Discuss a topic' is ordinary academic English and raises no collocation problem.
💡 Explicación
The task is to detect the odd one out among four sentences that are all grammatically correct. Only the first breaks the collocational pattern, because 'make' does not go with the noun 'research' in English.
Pregunta 17
Pregunta 17 · D7Bloom: Analyze
A student is writing the methodology section of a chemistry project on water quality.
Which method description uses the correct collocation with 'analyse'?
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Respuesta correcta: B)We analysed the samples and drew a conclusion about the purity of the water.
💡 Explicación
Scientific English repeats a small number of collocations in every paper: 'analyse the samples', 'draw a conclusion', 'support the hypothesis'. The item uses three impossible verbs so the learner must retrieve the phrase as a unit instead of choosing any plausible verb.
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Respuesta correcta: B)We analysed the samples and drew a conclusion about the purity of the water.
A)We analysed the samples and thiefed a conclusion about the purity of the water.'Thiefed' is not a word, and theft has no place in a methodology section.
B)We analysed the samples and drew a conclusion about the purity of the water.'Drew a conclusion' is the fixed scientific phrase that follows the analysis of samples.
C)We analysed the samples and ate a conclusion about the purity of the water.Eating a conclusion is not English, since the verb belongs to the domain of food.
D)We analysed the samples and slept a conclusion about the purity of the water.A person sleeps; a conclusion is never the object of that verb in scientific writing.
💡 Explicación
Scientific English repeats a small number of collocations in every paper: 'analyse the samples', 'draw a conclusion', 'support the hypothesis'. The item uses three impossible verbs so the learner must retrieve the phrase as a unit instead of choosing any plausible verb.
Pregunta 18
Pregunta 18 · D7Bloom: Apply
Two schools are competing in the national science fair in June.
Which sentence is the natural way to describe a result in a school project?
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Respuesta correcta: B)The project achieved positive results in the regional trial.
💡 Explicación
'Achieve positive results' appears in every research abstract in English and is one of the most frequent academic collocations in the language. Choosing it over verbs from other semantic fields is what makes student writing sound professional.
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Respuesta correcta: B)The project achieved positive results in the regional trial.
A)The project wore positive results in the regional trial.Wearing a result would describe clothing, and the project produces data, not garments.
B)The project achieved positive results in the regional trial.'Achieve results' is the standard combination for a project that produces a favourable outcome.
C)The project ate positive results in the regional trial.Results are not edible, so 'ate' cannot describe a scientific outcome.
D)The project cleaned positive results in the regional trial.Cleaning a result is not a scientific operation; cleaning applies to instruments or surfaces.
💡 Explicación
'Achieve positive results' appears in every research abstract in English and is one of the most frequent academic collocations in the language. Choosing it over verbs from other semantic fields is what makes student writing sound professional.
Pregunta 19
Pregunta 19 · D7Bloom: Evaluate
An author explains why her article disagrees with a common assumption in the field.
Which phrase best expresses the author's position?
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Respuesta correcta: D)at odds with
💡 Explicación
Prepositional phrases carry large amounts of meaning in academic English, and they are learned as units. The item sets the correct phrase against invented ones so the learner retrieves a real combination rather than assembling words by their individual meanings.
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Respuesta correcta: D)at odds with
A)at elbows with'At elbows with' is not an English expression, though 'elbow room' exists as a different noun phrase.
B)at loggerheads always'At loggerheads' normally appears with 'at loggerheads over' and describes an active dispute, which is stronger than an academic disagreement.
C)at sixes with'At sixes with' is not idiomatic English; 'at odds with' is the fixed phrase.
D)at odds with'At odds with' means to disagree with something, which is the relation the article defends.
💡 Explicación
Prepositional phrases carry large amounts of meaning in academic English, and they are learned as units. The item sets the correct phrase against invented ones so the learner retrieves a real combination rather than assembling words by their individual meanings.
Pregunta 20
Pregunta 20 · D7Bloom: Analyze
A university press reviewed a book about the history of the coffee industry.
Which sentence is written with academic collocations in the standard way?
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Respuesta correcta: B)The book was well received by historians and it has been translated into several languages.
💡 Explicación
A review sentence combines passive collocations such as 'be received', 'be translated' and 'be praised'. The item asks the learner to reject the versions that keep the grammar but destroy the pairing, which is the most common way student writing sounds unacademic.
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Respuesta correcta: B)The book was well received by historians and it has been translated into several languages.
A)The book was well made by historians and it has been translated into several languages.'Well made' describes manufacture and suggests the book was an object first, which changes the meaning of the review.
B)The book was well received by historians and it has been translated into several languages.'Be well received' and 'be translated into' are both standard collocations of academic English.
C)The book was well ate by historians and it has been eaten into several languages.A book cannot be eaten by historians or eaten into a language, so the first clause breaks the collocation.
D)The book was well cleaned by historians and it has been worn into several languages.Cleaning and wearing do not describe how a book is judged or transformed into another language.
💡 Explicación
A review sentence combines passive collocations such as 'be received', 'be translated' and 'be praised'. The item asks the learner to reject the versions that keep the grammar but destroy the pairing, which is the most common way student writing sounds unacademic.
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