Question

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in a 2016 study, eastern washington university psychologist amani el-alayli found that, among the study participants who experienced frisson (a physiological response akin to goosebumps or getting the chills) while listening to music, there was one personality trait that they scored particularly ______ openness to experience.
which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of standard english?
choose 1 answer:
a high on;
b high on
c high. on
d high on:

Explanation:

The sentence structure requires a phrase to connect "scored particularly" to the trait "openness to experience". The correct collocation is "scored high on [a trait]". No punctuation is needed here because the phrase directly modifies the following noun phrase, so a semicolon, colon, or period would break the sentence incorrectly.

Answer:

B. high on