Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space with four words or group of words given. Select whichever word or group of words you consider the most appropriate for the blank space and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
Each chapter in this book explains a different aspect of why habits exist and how they function. The framework __________ in this section is an attempt to distil, in __________ very basic way, the tactics that researchers have found for diagnosing and shaping habits within our own lives.
- Adescribing
- Bdescribed
- Cwill describe
- Ddescription
Explanation
'The framework described in this section' — the past participle 'described' forms a reduced relative clause ('which is described in this section'). 'Describe' is the base form, 'describes' is finite, and 'describing' would mean the framework itself is doing the describing. Hence (B) described is correct.