Question

1499 ✗ Recent advances in medicine have helped to reduce the rate of infant mortality. Recent [[advances]] in medicine have helped to reduce the rate of infant mortality. advances | inventions

Accepted Answer

invention Recent inventions in medicine have helped to reduce the rate of infant mortality. Recent [[inventions]] in medicine have helped to reduce the rate of infant mortality. advances When you are talking about the development of new ideas or techniques that have a good effect, use advance/breakthrough/discovery: 'This new treatment could be the breakthrough that cancer patients have been waiting for.'

Idx	1499
Keyword	invention
Type of Sentence	✗
Error Sentence	Recent inventions in medicine have helped to reduce the rate of infant mortality.
Correct Sentence	Recent advances in medicine have helped to reduce the rate of infant mortality.
Cloze Error Sentence	Recent [[inventions]] in medicine have helped to reduce the rate of infant mortality.
Cloze Sentence	Recent [[advances]] in medicine have helped to reduce the rate of infant mortality.
Cloze Answer	advances
Choices	advances \| inventions
Explanation	When you are talking about the development of new ideas or techniques that have a good effect, use advance/breakthrough/discovery: 'This new treatment could be the breakthrough that cancer patients have been waiting for.'

Recent Medicine Helped Reduce Rate Infant Mortality Advances