Directions (1-10): In the following passage, there are blanks. Each, of which has been numbered. These
numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
New technology has led directly to (1) standards of living yet science tends to follow market forces as well as to (2) them, It is not surprising that the rich get richer in a continuing cycle of (3) while the poorest are often left behind. A special (4) should be made by the powerhouses of world science to address the unmet the challenges of the poor. Ending (5) poverty can relieve many of the pressures on the environment. When impoverished households are (6), (7)on their farms, for example, they face less pressure to cut down neighboring forests in (8) of new farmland. Still, even as extreme poverty ends, we must not fuel prosperity with a lack of (9) for industrial pollution and the (10) burning of fossil fuels.
1.
(a) Visible
(b) Declining
(c) Improved
(d) Amicable
(e) Rigorous
2.
(a) Fail
(b) Claim
(c) Market
(d) Avoid
(e) Lead
3.
(a) Wealth
(b) Growth
(c) Poverty
(d) Improvement
(e) Economy
4.
(a) Effort
(b) Care
(c) Practice
(d) Occasion
(e) Sanction
5.
(a) Marginal
(b) Apparent
(c) Superficial
(d) Extreme
(e) Dismal
6.
(a) Abnormally
(b) Less
(c) More
(d) Excessively
(e) Unreasonably
7.
(a) Efficient
(b) Meticulous
(c) Careful
(d) Dependent
(e) Productive
8.
(a) View
(b) Search
(c) Expectation
(d) Lust
(e) Place
9.
(a) Attitude
(b) Mobility
(c) Initiative
(d) Concern
(e) Ease
10.
(a) Unchecked
(b) Repeated
(c) Periodical
(d) Occasional
(e) Limited
1. (c) 2. (e) 3. (d) 4. (b) 5. (d) 6. (c) 7. (d) 8. (b) 9. (d) 10. (b)
numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
New technology has led directly to (1) standards of living yet science tends to follow market forces as well as to (2) them, It is not surprising that the rich get richer in a continuing cycle of (3) while the poorest are often left behind. A special (4) should be made by the powerhouses of world science to address the unmet the challenges of the poor. Ending (5) poverty can relieve many of the pressures on the environment. When impoverished households are (6), (7)on their farms, for example, they face less pressure to cut down neighboring forests in (8) of new farmland. Still, even as extreme poverty ends, we must not fuel prosperity with a lack of (9) for industrial pollution and the (10) burning of fossil fuels.
1.
(a) Visible
(b) Declining
(c) Improved
(d) Amicable
(e) Rigorous
2.
(a) Fail
(b) Claim
(c) Market
(d) Avoid
(e) Lead
3.
(a) Wealth
(b) Growth
(c) Poverty
(d) Improvement
(e) Economy
4.
(a) Effort
(b) Care
(c) Practice
(d) Occasion
(e) Sanction
5.
(a) Marginal
(b) Apparent
(c) Superficial
(d) Extreme
(e) Dismal
6.
(a) Abnormally
(b) Less
(c) More
(d) Excessively
(e) Unreasonably
7.
(a) Efficient
(b) Meticulous
(c) Careful
(d) Dependent
(e) Productive
8.
(a) View
(b) Search
(c) Expectation
(d) Lust
(e) Place
9.
(a) Attitude
(b) Mobility
(c) Initiative
(d) Concern
(e) Ease
10.
(a) Unchecked
(b) Repeated
(c) Periodical
(d) Occasional
(e) Limited
Answers -
1. (c) 2. (e) 3. (d) 4. (b) 5. (d) 6. (c) 7. (d) 8. (b) 9. (d) 10. (b)
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