Question 133·Easy·Words in Context
The museum’s new interactive installation is designed to be ______ visitors’ actions, adjusting its lighting and soundscape in real time based on where each guest chooses to stand.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
For words-in-context questions, always read the entire sentence (and surrounding context if given) before looking at the choices. First, predict a rough meaning for the blank in your own simple words based on clues like cause-and-effect phrases, tone words (such as interactive), and what happens before and after the blank. Then compare each answer choice’s core meaning to your prediction and eliminate any that contradict the sentence’s logic or tone, even if they are grammatically correct. Finally, plug the remaining choice back into the sentence to confirm it fits smoothly in both meaning and style.
Hints
Use the description after the comma
Focus on the part after the comma: “adjusting its lighting and soundscape in real time based on where each guest chooses to stand.” What does this tell you about how the installation relates to visitors’ actions?
Think about the relationship
Does the installation cause visitors’ actions, react to visitors’ actions, go against them, or ignore them? Decide what makes sense for something that is called interactive.
Test each option in the sentence
Read the sentence with each option inserted. Ask yourself: Does this meaning logically fit an installation that changes its lighting and sound because of what visitors do?
Step-by-step Explanation
Understand the situation described
Read the whole sentence: the museum has a new interactive installation that adjusts its lighting and soundscape in real time based on where each guest chooses to stand.
This tells you the installation changes its behavior because of what visitors do.
Predict the missing idea in your own words
Without looking at the options, think about what word or phrase would logically describe an installation that changes based on visitors’ actions.
You should get something like: it reacts to or changes according to what visitors do.
Match each option’s meaning to that idea
Now compare each answer choice to your predicted meaning:
- One choice should mean something like reacting to visitors’ actions.
- The others will have different meanings, such as causing the actions, being against them, or not caring about them.
Keep the context in mind: an installation that is interactive and adjusts in real time needs a phrase that shows it changes because of visitors’ actions.
Select the option that best fits the context
The phrase “responsive to” means reacting or adjusting to something, which matches the idea of an interactive installation that changes its lighting and soundscape in real time based on visitors’ actions. Therefore, the correct answer is B) responsive to.