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GATE 2016 ME (ME1) – Question 3

General Aptitude · Verbal Aptitude: Grammar and Vocabulary · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Despite the new medicine’s ______________ in treating diabetes, it is not ______________widely.

  1. effectiveness --- prescribed
  2. availability --- used
  3. prescription --- available
  4. acceptance --- proscribed

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Correct answer: (A) effectiveness --- prescribed

Explanation

Despite sets up a contrast between a favourable property and limited medical use. Effectiveness describes successful treatment, and prescribed describes a clinician recommending the medicine. Therefore **effectiveness—prescribed, A**, gives the intended contrast. Proscribed means forbidden, which does not express the same claim.