Which word completes the sentence: Driving falls far below what is expected of a careful and competent driver and is obvious to a careful and competent driver that driving in that way would be dangerous?

• A. Dangerously
• B. Dangerous driving
• C. Without due care and attention
• D. Without reasonable consideration

Answer: (A)

The key idea here is choosing a word that describes how the driving is done, i.e., the manner of the driving. The sentence sets up that the driving in that style would be classified as something, and using an adverb after would be the natural way to express the manner of the driving. Dangerously fits as an adverb modifying the act of driving in that way, signaling that the way it’s done would be unsafe. The other options don’t fit the sentence as neatly: a noun phrase like “dangerous driving” would shift the structure to describe the act itself rather than the manner of that act, and the phrases “without due care and attention” or “without reasonable consideration” are fixed expressions that don’t complete a single-word adverb fill in this context.