There are two gaps in each of the following sentences. From the pairs of words given, choose the one that fills the gaps most appropriately. The first word in the pair should fill the first gap.
A growing number of these expert professionals ______ having to train foreigners as the students end up _____ the teachers who have to then unhappily contend with no jobs at all or new jobs with drastically reduced pay packets.
Answer: A
If the students end up ‘replacing’ the original teachers who are finally left with less-paying jobs or no jobs, the professionals are definitely not going to appreciate that or welcome that trend. Therefore, option 3 is eliminated.
Option 4 uses a neutral ‘are’ for the first blank, whereas the latter part of the sentence indicates that there should be a feeling of resentment or bitterness among those professional experts whose jobs are taken away from them or who have to be content with lower pay. Therefore, we can do away with option 4 as well.
Between options 1 and 2, option 1 is the best contender. ‘Resent’ is proper than ‘resist’, as the sentence does not imply that these professionals ‘resist’ or oppose to train foreigners, just that they dislike getting a raw deal in the end.
Hence, the correct answer is option 1.