Alfred Nobel intended for the Nobel Prize to be an award honoring those who have contributed "the greatest benefit to mankind." Indeed, the work of Richard Laurence Millington Synge represented a significant ________the field of chemistry. and in 1952 he was among those awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "their invention of partition chromatography."
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
Explanation
Context: Nobel Prize honors those contributing "the greatest benefit to mankind." Richard Synge's work "represented a significant [blank] the field of chemistry"—progress in it.
Answer: B) advancement in
Why? Significant progress = advancement. Advancement in = progress in.
Traps:
- A) exposure to → different
- C) dependence on → different
- D) controversy in → different