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Some economists are predicting that demand will catch up with productivity shortly, ___________ an enormous boom in job growth. A. making B. shooting C. spurring D. spinning E. goading The best answer is C. Spurring, a verb whose origins come from the spurs of a horseback rider’s boots, is appropriate to describe something that causes an enormous boom. The city is ___________ to annex land for new, suburban-style homes, but zoning abuses blight existing neighborhoods with ___________ construction. A. scheduled… exquisite B. talking… opulent C. foregoing… errant D. slated… illegal E. considering… succulent The best answer is D. Only choices A and D are both logical and grammatical for the first blank. For the second blank, however, exquisite is not a logical adjective to describe a blight. In ___________ of resolving the profound economic and social problems that continue to ___________ the nation, the president's removal last July accomplished nothing. A. sense… butter B. light… libel C. coin… malign D. means… disturb E. terms … plague 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 of ___________ housing. A. incentives … rental B. perks… semi-permanent C. bonuses… viable D. encouragement… marketable E. raises… salable 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. A. a reliable… greatest B. an economic … greater C. an intuitive… great D. a moneyed… worse E. a furtive… worst 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. A. way… convened B. time… convening C. self… ran D. right… running E. identity… chaired The best answer is D. In her own right is idiomatic. A gerund is needed to fill the second blank to maintain parallelism. Seth Walters has ___________ more than four decades in commercial banking, ___________ from a bank messenger to president and CEO of the Merchant’s Bank. A. caroled… upping B. resided… increasing C. loafed… raising D. spent … rising E. squandered… starting The best answer is D. Grammatically, choices A, B and C cannot fit in the first blank because they would have to be followed by a preposition. Choice E is unlikely – if 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 ___________ for employees. A. worse … deductibles B. depleted… deductions C. alleviated… welts D. recompensed… interest E. disparaged… abscesses 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. A. physical… fauna B. theatrical … animals C. musical… locations D. creative… flora E. prolific… alligators The best answer is B. Theatrical productions and musical productions are idiomatic. Animals is a better choice than locations for something that belongs to the Everglades. Some residents claim that the timing of the strike was inappropriate, considering the ___________ economy. A. flourishing B. harmonizing C. shivering D. questionable E. illiterate 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. A. crests… various B. foothills … many C. summits… numerous D. grounds… far E. trees… much 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. A. living… released B. working… tipped off C. breathing … unleashed D. thinking… forestalled E. pondering… untapped The best answer is C. To breath easier is idiomatic. Used metaphorically, fears can be unleashed. 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. A. arm… unwieldy B. forego… international C. attack… exceptional D. defuse… permissive E. tackle … inefficient The best answer is E. Attack and tackle are the only logical choice for the first blank. The word bureaucracy is rarely preceded by a positive adjective. Compared to economic disaster areas like Venezuela and Argentina, where the ___________ shrank by 12 percent last year, Brazil's outlook is ___________. A. economy … rosy B. population… undecided C. integration … advantageous D. specification… ambiguous E. profit… perilous The best answer is A. Choice A is the most logical for the first blank. Profit could not follow the when referring to an entire country. For the second blank, there is a contrast set up between Venezuela and Argentina on the one hand, and Brazil on the other. Since the former are disaster areas, the second should be positive. Throughout the downturn of the past few years, economists and analysts have trumpeted our historic increases in productivity as the one ___________ in an otherwise dreary economic ___________. A. upturn… neighborhood B. indication… surrounding C. positive … environment D. advisory… background E. allocation… milieu 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. Chapter 5: 20 questions The Andes ___________ as the floor of the Pacific Ocean slipped uneasily beneath South America, ruffling the land along the west coast of the ___________. A. formed… continent B. created… country C. disinterred… mass D. depredated… mass E. shaped… landfill The best answer is A. Created and shaped would have to be put into a passive form (were created, were shaped) to fill the first blank. Disinterred and depredated are illogical. Researchers have long ___________ about whether this kind of selfless behavior in animals, ___________ as altruism, directly benefits the helper. A. argued … known B. dreamed… deemed C. stipulated… named D. simulated… seen E. posited… characterized The best answer is A. Only argued and dreamed can go before about. Deemed cannot precede as. According to Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection, an animal's success in the gene ___________ is measured by the number of offspring it ___________ raises to pass on its DNA. 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. A. Talks… chronicles B. Stories… verbiage C. Legends… writings D. Quips… meanderings E. Tales … traditions The best answer is E. One can have stories, legends or tales of something. Oral traditions is an idiomatic expression. Furthermore, oral verbiage is both redundant and illogical, while oral writings is a contradiction in terms. 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. A. face… last B. focus… first C. preclude… coming D. represent … past E. repress… forthcoming 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. A. collected… detectives B. amassed … suspects C. accumulated… suspicions D. assembled… executors E. engineered… perpetrators 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. A. a budding… taking B. a novice… reeling C. an introductory… sponging D. an eager… spanning E. a top… straddling The best answer is D. For the first blank, a person cannot be introductory. Eager or novice are the most appropriate adjective to describe a beginning writer. Only spanning can be used to indicate that Gordon’s career lasted three decades. 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