Some people find it difficult not to give … to temptation

Analyze the question: The sentence is "Some people find it difficult not to give ........ to temptation." We need the particle that forms a phrasal verb with give and fits with "to temptation."

Explain the concept: Phrasal verbs combine a verb with a preposition or adverb to give a new meaning. Let's look at each option with give:

• give away means to hand something over for free, or to reveal a secret.
• give over means to stop doing something, or to hand something over.
• give in (to) means to yield or surrender to pressure, a desire, or a person.
• give off means to emit something, such as heat, smell, or light.

Solution: The sentence is about people who find it hard to resist temptation, so the meaning needed is "yield to" or "surrender to."

• "give away to temptation" is wrong, because give away does not take "to" in this sense.
• "give over to temptation" is not the natural, standard expression here.
• "give in to temptation" is a standard collocation meaning to yield to temptation.
• "give off to temptation" is meaningless.

Correct sentence: Some people find it difficult not to give in to temptation.

Answer: The correct option is C. in.

Tip: Remember the pairing "give in to", which means to surrender or yield. You will often see it with temptation, pressure, demands, and pleas. In exams, always test each option by asking whether it makes sense with the word that follows (here, "to").