A words in context question tests whether you can use nearby clues to find a missing word's meaning. Read the whole sentence and find the clue that explains the blank, including what happens after a change. Signal words show whether the blank supports a nearby idea, gives its cause or result, or goes against it. Predict the meaning in plain words, then test each choice by its meaning, not how natural it sounds.
Hints
- Hint 1
Start with Although and compare the village's past with what the highway changes.
- Hint 2
Read after the comma for what the arrival time shows about the trip, and use that detail to predict the blank in your own words.
Step-by-step
Use the change and its result
Step 1Read the turn
Although the mountain village was once remote sets up how things used to be. Remote means far away or hard to reach, and Although signals a turn from that past. We're choosing a word that describes travel now, so the blank must describe the change brought by the highway.
- Step 2
Predict from the result
What tells us what travel is like now? The phrase allowing tourists to arrive in less than two hours gives the result of the highway: visitors can reach the village on a short trip. Let's predict easier to get there for the blank, because the missing word describes the improvement that this arrival time shows.
- Step 3
Test each word's meaning
Which word describes the improved travel there? Tedious means boring and tiresome, frequent means happening often, and risky means involving danger. The short arrival time shows none of these. Convenient means causing little trouble or well suited to someone's needs, so it matches tourists being able to reach the village on a short trip. Choice A.