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Direction: Each of the following sentences is followed by four words or group of words. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word or group of words.

  1. The Romans were _________ science.
    1. bad in
    2. bad to
    3. bad for
    4. bad at
Correct Option: D

Suppose you do not know exact meaning of all the options. Let us try solving it with critical reasoning approach. ‘Bad for science’ does not look sense full. ‘Bad to’ does not suit. ‘Bad in science’ looks convincing but it is slang not the right answers. People usually use - I am bad in mathematics but not in science. This is not right as per Standard English. With subjects ‘at’ is used as connector.
The correct word is filled in the above given sentence :-
The Romans were bad at science.So , option D is correct .



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