Question

Choose the best answer from the options given.
You are to welcome the visitors for the conference being held at your institute.
You will say _________.
A. I’d like to welcome you all to our institute. It is a pleasure to have you here.
B. It is good that you have come to attend the conference.
C. You will find that the conference will widen your mental horizon.
D. It’ll be a great experience.

Answer 1

Hint: In the given question, we are given a situation where we need to welcome the visitors for the conference being held at our institute. An opening sentence to address a visitor will be the one which expresses gratitude or pleasure for the company of the visitors and should sound welcoming. Therefore, we will choose an option such that it is relevant to this situation.

Complete answer:
Let us analyse each option individually to figure out the correct answer.
I’d like to welcome you all to our institute. It is a pleasure to have you here: This sentence uses an expression to welcome the visitors, also it expresses that we are pleased to have the visitors in our institute for the conference. This best suits the given situation. As the very first thing we do on receiving someone so to greet them. The expression of greeting here is, ‘welcome’. Therefore, this is the correct option.
It is good that you have come to attend the conference: Though this sentence is not wrong in meaning but its framing is blunt and also it cannot be the very first thing you would say when you greet a person. Therefore, this is an incorrect option.
You will find that the conference will widen your mental horizon: This sentence gives information about the scope of the conference. This can be said sometime in between, but not the very first thing to say. There, this is an incorrect option.
It’ll be a great experience: Again, this sentence gives information about the scope of the conference. This can be said sometime in between, but not the very first thing to say. There, this is an incorrect option.

Hence, the correct answer is option A.

Note: While addressing an event we speak relevantly in sequence. We just can’t speak anything anytime. If you observe the options the sequence of saying the dialogues can be-
I’d like to welcome you all to our institute. It is a pleasure to have you here.
It is good that you have come to attend the conference.
You will find that the conference will widen your mental horizon.
It’ll be a great experience.