Question

Read the following passage and answer question.

In a cultivated voice marked by a slight accent that gave it added precision and deliberateness, he said, “It is a very great pleasure and honor to welcome Mr. Sanger Rainsford, the celebrated hunter, to my home.”

The word cultivated has several different meanings. Which one is being used in the passage?

to break up soil with a tool
to plant crops
to be civilized and cultured
to nurture

Answer 1

to be civilized and cultured

Answer 2

To be civilized and cultured

Step-by-step explanation:

The verb to cultivate has most of the listed meanings:

• to prepare and use land for crops or gardening;
• to grow a particular crop;
• also: to try to develop or improve something (e.g. cultivate a certain image).

The verbs to nurture and to cultivate are similar, but you usually use to cultivate when it comes to plants or crops and to nurture when it comes to people or animals.

In the given sentence, we have an adjective cultivated, which is derived from the verb to cultivate, but it has a different meaning: civilized, cultured, well educated, refined. When we're talking about someone's voice, that is the only meaning out of the listed ones we can use. So, the correct option is the third one.