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Plague is the best choice to refer to profound economic and social problems.. Some agencies offer financing ___________ for developers to encourage the building The best answer is A.. A

Some economists are predicting that demand will catch up with productivity shortly, _ an enormous boom

The city is _ to annex land for new, suburban-style homes, but zoning abuses blight existing neighborhoods with _ construction

In _ of resolving the profound economic and social problems that

continue to _ the nation, the president's removal last July accomplished nothing

The best answer is E In terms of is idiomatic Plague is the best choice to refer to

profound economic and social problems

Some agencies offer financing _ for developers to encourage the building

The best answer is A Perks, encouragement and raises are usually given to

employees, not developers Housing cannot be viable

Marks, _ forecaster, estimates that, compared to the administration's dividend tax cuts, extending unemployment benefits would produce a 20 times _ positive effect on the gross domestic product

The best answer is B Choices A, B and C are reasonable to fill the first blank D and

E are possible, but would be unusual After a 20 times greater _, a comparative form of adjective is needed, such as greater

As a politician's wife, Carole Samuels became active in her own _, attending chamber of commerce breakfasts and historical society meetings, and _ in the Gardener’s Club

The best answer is D In her own right is idiomatic A gerund is needed to fill the

second blank to maintain parallelism

the time had been squandered, Walters would not have risen to the position of

president

As healthcare costs grow, the problem of the underinsured will only get

_, as corporations seek to control costs by continuing to raise

The best answer is A The phrase the problem will only get _, is generally followed

by something negative, such as worse Deductibles is logical since the sentence refers

to insurance (the problem of the underinsured)

At the school, she wrote and directed several _ productions about the Everglades and its _ as well as tributes to historic Floridians, such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas

The best answer is D Choices B, C and E cannot be applied to an economy A strike

is generally considered inappropriate when the economy is poor, hence D is a better choice than A

A wildfire roaring through the _ of the San Bernardino Mountains burned

as _ as 20 homes and forced thousands to flee

The best answer is B It would be nearly impossible for a fire to roar through the

crests or summits of mountains Many is the appropriate choice to agree with homes

Businessmen and investors may be _ a little easier now that the initial fears _ by the elections of leftist presidents in neighboring countries have been muffled

Arguing that the roots of many of the region's problems are more political and institutional than economic, the lecturer claimed that the government will now stress the need to _ corruption and _ bureaucracy

The best answer is C The phrase as the one x in an otherwise dreary… sets the

stage for a positive word filling the blank

A source… substantially

B swamp… joyfully

C pool … successfully

D base… productively

E chromosome… verdantly

The best answer is C Gene pool is idiomatic Successfully is a logical choice; if the

offspring are not raised successfully, they cannot make an impact on the gene pool _ of mythical giant apes lurk in the oral _ of most Native American tribes, as well as in Europe and Asia

Statistically, the 3,300 responses _ the opinions (accurate to plus or minus two percent) of the 154 million American adults who have traveled over the _ three years

The best answer is D Grammatically, all of the choices are suitable to fill in the first

blank, but semantically, represent is the most logical choice Because the present perfect (have traveled) is used, the second blank must be something that refers to the

past

The academic services division was _ to providing quality support to the students and staff through the provision of specialist administrative _

A submitted… services

B committed … assistance

C destined… debate

D conniving… help

E striving… contact

The best answer is B Choice D and E cannot be correct for the first blank because

they are gerund forms An academic services division cannot normally be submitted Destined would have to be follow be an infinitive form

Prosecutors have _ a wealth of circumstantial evidence linking the six _ to the deadly bombing

The best answer is B To amass wealth is idiomatic Here the expression is expanded

to refer to a wealth of evidence Suspects is appropriate to refer to people accused but not yet tried

First hired in 1972 as _ staff writer for The Examiner, Frank Gordon has

since fashioned a career in journalism _ over three decades

It was thought that if the corpse did not have _ care, the former pharaoh would not be able to _ out his new duties as king of the dead

The best answer is D The care that one takes over something cannot be described as

careful, secret, deciduous or learned Duties are said to be carried out

Many of these prizes are _ at the Faculty of Business presentation ceremony _ is held in June for the preceding academic year

The best answer is C Prizes are normally awarded or given Which is the

appropriate pronoun to refer to the ceremony

Earlier this month tax-evasion charges were _ against Maryanne Sumner, who is _ for the auditing of operations

The best answer is E The first four choices for the first blank are used passively (the priest was assigned) The blank calls for an active verb The work of mummification

is embalming

Projects _ by management students include a recent communication analysis and team development project conducted by a postgraduate _

Connected by a complex set of _ roads, the villages were defined by ditches, curbs, moats, open parklands, and working forests

The best answer is A Only fossil is logical in reference to a fish

The recent arrest has _ concern about a government push against powerful business barons before the _ elections

The best answer is D While choices C, D and E are all possible, only sparked concern is idiomatic

The government will also now start the legal process of lifting the monopoly _ by Telecon, the state carrier

The best answer is C A monopoly is something that a company enjoys, so C is the

most logical choice

An extensive archaeological excavation has _ a lost city that is believed

to be one of the _ jewels in the ancient civilization of the Maya

The best answer is Excavations remove objects from the earth therefore, unearthed

is an appropriate choice Crowning jewels is idiomatic

The best answer is C A recession is a negative occurrence so it is appropriate that

one would battle or suffer through it Fuel can be used figuratively to mean promote

The rationale _ the rise of fee-based advice is that it makes for a better relationship with clients by eliminating the potential for conflicts that _ when someone profits directly from their recommendations

As younger workers watch parents and others in _ generations go back to work after retiring because their savings were not _, they still aren't doing enough to provide for their own financial futures

The best answer is D Tuition is a word that specifically means fees paid to a school

and is thus the best answer The first part of the sentence deals with college costs

increases in general, and the second part mentions a more specific increase

A new survey says most families aren't generally expecting to _ more money on holiday vacations than they did _ year

_ in the history of this great country have there been more annoying commercials on the public _

Oscar-The most successful remodeling projects begin with homeowners _ have

a imaginative, yet _, idea of what they want done

The best answer is E Who is the most suitable pronoun to refer to homeowners The second blank must be filled with a word which contrasts with imaginative because of the yet before the blank

To accompany the book, Freeman _ has a new _ of digital photographs spanning 30 years

The best answer is B None of the choices other than also fit the sentence

grammatically Photographs can logical be displayed in an exhibition

He went over all his expenditures and _ for the preceding year and a half, and was shocked by what he _

does not collect tolls

Their income has proven _ to maintain what they regard as a

comfortable, though not _, lifestyle

The best answer is C Sufficient and ample are suitable to describe income that can

maintain a comfortable lifestyle

He was rejected by the National Film School and spent 11 years doing odd jobs for a small theatre company before he got the _ to make his film noir thriller

While the couple tries to find bargain-basement prices on all their _, they

The best answer is A Purchases and acquisitions are logical choices for the first

blank The second blank must be filled with a word that will contrast with the first part of the sentence

What was a ruthlessly effective way of enhancing their electoral fortunes has

developed into a compulsion never to allow any leader much of a chance to

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