Question

"He often the numbers. False claims are not going to help. Honesty trust", said the manager.
Choose the option with the correct order of words to fill the blanks.

• A. exaggerates; engenders
• B. excels; encourages
• C. aggravates; alleviates
• D. diminishes; eliminates

Hint:

Read the sentence as a whole: the first blank should connect to "false claims", and the second blank should mean "creates" trust, not reduce or remove it.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Step 1: Read the sentence for meaning.
The manager warns that "false claims are not going to help." This tells us the first blank must describe a habit close to making false or inflated claims, since the next sentence directly criticizes that habit.

Step 2: Fill the first blank.
"Exaggerates" fits well: exaggerating numbers means stating them as bigger or better than they really are, which is a mild form of a false claim. This matches the warning that follows.
Check the other words in this slot: "excels" needs a preposition ("excels at/in"), so "excels the numbers" is not grammatical. "Aggravates the numbers" and "diminishes the numbers" do not carry the sense of dishonesty the sentence is building toward.

Step 3: Fill the second blank.
The sentence "Honesty ___ trust" needs a verb that shows honesty creates trust. "Engenders" means to give rise to or produce, so "honesty engenders trust" is a standard, correct collocation.
Check the rest: "encourages" would also seem to work loosely, but it is paired here with "excels", which already fails the first blank. "Alleviates" means to ease or reduce, so "honesty alleviates trust" makes no sense, since trust is not a problem to be eased. "Eliminates" reverses the meaning entirely, since honesty should build trust, not remove it.

Final Answer:
Both blanks are filled correctly only by "exaggerates; engenders". \[ \boxed{\text{Option (A): exaggerates; engenders}} \]