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His talk on heritage sites has picked up my interest.

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✅ Correct Option: 1

This question tests phrasal verb synonyms and idiomatic expressions.

When something "picks up" your interest, it awakens or stimulates curiosity that wasn't there before—like how a good book picks up steam as the plot thickens. We need the most precise synonym for this meaning.

Option 1 → Perfect match! "Aroused interest" is the classic expression for awakening curiosity.

Option 2 → Wrong fit—you adopt pets or policies, not interest levels.

Option 3 → Close but not quite—"caught" suggests grabbing existing attention, not creating it.

Option 4 → Doesn't work—you brighten rooms or moods, not interest itself.

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