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SSC Selection Post 2024 PYQ — Question 7

SSC Selection Post - Matriculation Level - 21 June 2024 - Shift 4 • English • Q7

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In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully andselect the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Vijayanagara or “city of victory” was the ______1____ of both a city and an empire. The
empire was ______2_____ in the fourteenth century. In its heyday, it _____3______ from the river Krishna in the north to the extreme south of the peninsula. In 1565 the city was sacked and ______4______ deserted. Although it fell into ruin in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, it lived on in the memories of people living in the Krishna-Tungabhadra doab. They remembered it as Hampi, a name ________5______ from that of the local mother goddess,  Pampadevi.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

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Correct answer: B

Explanation

The correct answer is option 2 i.e. subsequently.

 

This sentence talks about two actions happening in sequence:

  1. The city was sacked (attacked and looted).

  2. It was deserted (abandoned).

Subsequently means: afterwards; later; following in time or order.

It is used to indicate that one event happened after another..

After being sacked in 1565, the city was later abandoned.

So the correct adverb that conveys “what happened next” is subsequently.

Hence, the chosen option will be correct.