The ____________ is too high for it to be considered _____________. A. fair / fare B. faer / fair C. fare / fare D. fare / fair

GATE 2022 · General Aptitude · Most Appropriate Word · medium

Answer: The correct answer is D. fare / fair — 'The fare is too high for it to be considered fair.'

1. Eliminate non-words and same-word options: Option B has 'faer' which is not a real word — eliminated. Option C repeats 'fare/fare': 'The fare is too high for it to be considered fare' — 'fare' is a noun (price/food), not an adjective meaning reasonable, so the second blank is wrong.
2. Test Option D: fare / fair: 'The fare is too high for it to be considered fair.' — 'fare' (price) fills blank 1; 'fair' (reasonable/just) fills blank 2. The sentence is grammatically correct and semantically coherent.