Choose the one verb that correctly fills all three gaps.
1) The new stadium can ___ over 30,000 spectators.
2) Please ___ the line, and I will put you through to the manager.
3) The committee will ___ its annual conference in Almaty this autumn.
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Верный ответ
- Ahold
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Check each verb in all three sentences. 1) "hold" means "to have room for", so "can hold 30,000 spectators" is correct. 2) "Hold the line" is a set phrase meaning "wait on the telephone". 3) "Hold a conference" is a standard collocation meaning "to organise and conduct" it. "keep" does not collocate with "spectators" in the sense of capacity or with "a conference". "take" can mean capacity in the first sentence, but "take the line" and "take a conference" are not used in these meanings. "carry" can fit the first sentence for transport capacity, but "carry the line" and "carry a conference" do not work. So only "hold" fits all three gaps.