category

 category

= a group or class of things that share a common feature

Mark placed car reviews in the category of sports vehicles.

Mark checked the category of coffee flavors at the shop.

Susan listed her category of hobbies as sports and games.

Susan chose a category for her university projects and tasks.

Some synonyms and antonyms for "category":

Synonyms:

class

group

type

division

Antonyms:

individual

variety

mixture

randomness

Question: Which option best matches the meaning of “category”?

A) A single person

B) A group of similar items

C) A random event

D) A type of weather

The Great AI Art Disaster

Susan, a university student with no talent for brushstrokes, stared at a blank canvas for a whole week. Inspired by daily life, she finally entered the award competition in her age category.

Desperate, she called Mark—her successful businessman uncle and an eccentric character. At this moment, Mark paced his shiny red sports car stuck in a brutal traffic jam and yelled via Bluetooth, “Draw this misery! Capture my soul burning in gridlock while you flash a victory V-sign!”

Susan sketched Mark looking like a melted potato, groaning at the steering wheel, paired with herself cheesing like a tourist at Disneyland.

Mark slammed his palm on his horn and reviewed the painting she’d sent. “My facial expression looks like a tax audit gone wrong, Susan Bond! This won’t win squat.”

“So…?” Susan blinked.

Susan went to Mark’s house and saw the AI robot machine painting. “Use my Robo-Pablo—my AI art droid!”

Robo-Pablo whizzed across the canvas, airbrushing hyper-realistic tears of despair onto Mark’s cheeks and rendering a Ferrari emblem shinier than real life. Ten minutes later, Mark declared, “Victory is ours!”

Later, the judges agreed and awarded Susan first place. She held the shiny trophy high and high-fived Mark.

Then, Chloe—Mark’s hyper-observant girlfriend, who happened to be a judge at the regional design finals—zoomed in with a magnifying glass. “Babe, why does your ear have a USB-C port in this oil painting?”

Busted. The association stripped the title faster than Robo-Pablo could redraw a middle finger. Susan kept the trophy anyway—as a doorstop.

Questions

1. Why did Susan get disqualified from the art competition?

A) She drew her uncle Mark without asking permission.

B) The association discovered an AI robot helped paint the final details.

C) She missed the submission deadline by ten minutes.

D) Her drawing of the traffic jam was too realistic.

2. Which sentence best uses the word category as defined in the text (a group or class of things that share a common feature)?

A) Susan put her red sports car into the garage category.

B) Uncle Mark categorized his stress levels during the traffic jam from one to ten.

C) Susan competed for the award in her age category against peers born in the same multi-year bracket.

D) Chloe categorized the AI robot as a dangerous household appliance.