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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.




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.

A. careful… fold
B. secret… address
C. deciduous… situate
D. proper … carry
E. learned… marry

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.

A. designated…who
B. relegated… that
C. awarded… which
D. stultified… in which
E. given… where

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.

A. filed … responsible
B. summoned… reliable
C. subpoenaed… determined
D. lodged… reachable
E. grated… accountable

The best answer is A. A person can be summoned or subpoenaed, not charges. To
file charges is idiomatic.



The Egyptians mummified their dead because they believed
that a person needed his body in the afterlife, and the better-
looking the better, so it was ___________ on the priests in
charge of ___________ to do a good job.

A. designated… wrapping
B. selected… preserving
C. assigned… mummifying
D. doled… exacting
E. incumbent… embalming

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 ___________.

A. serviced… pupil
B. organized… student
C. steered… professor
D. accomplished… teacher
E. sentenced… fellow

The best answer is B. One cannot service, accomplish or sentence a project. A
postgraduate is a type of student.




When deep-sea explorers ___________ the Baltic Sea floor located a Swedish spy
plane shot down by the Russians more than 50 years ago this June, they ended one of
the more ___________ mysteries of the Cold War.

A. dredging… flimsy
B. combing … enduring
C. cruising… unforeseen
D. skimming… unreceptive
E. searching… personified

The best answer is B. One cannot cruise or skim the sea floor. A mystery can be
described as enduring when it has been in existance for a long period of time.




By ___________ the elements in the bones of a person long dead, researchers can
___________ the main constituents of that individual's diet.

A. testing… delineate
B. revealing… concoct
C. exhuming… discern
D. examining… determine

E. subsuming… reveal

The best answer is D. A body can be exhumed, but not the elements in the bones of a
body. These can be tested, examined or revealed. The constituents of a person’s diet
can be determined.


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

A. intersecting
B. fixed
C. interlinking
D. thickened
E. dense

The best answer is C. Since the roads are described as complex, it makes sense that
they would be interlinked.




Discovered by two paleontology students in clay pits near Peterborough, the
___________ is the largest known fish ever ___________.

A. fossil … recorded
B. remnant… devoured
C. visage… monitored
D. vestige… summoned
E. pebble… careened

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.

A. hurdled… forthcoming
B. marked… approaching
C. initiated… short
D. sparked … upcoming
E. kindled… near

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.


A. endured
B. pressed upon
C. enjoyed
D. confounded
E. supplied

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.

A. unearthed … crowning
B. buried… shining
C. uncovered… glowing
D. bared… crowned
E. obscured… buffed

The best answer is . Excavations remove objects from the earth therefore, unearthed
is an appropriate choice. Crowning jewels is idiomatic.

Chapter 6:

20 questions

Though the economy ___________ through a recession in 2001, super-low
interest rates have ___________ demand for mortgages, which has encouraged
a boom in mortgage refinancing.

A. battled… incited
B. conceded… impelled
C. suffered … fueled
D. slogged… driven
E. smudged… posited

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.


A. behind … arise
B. invested in… occur
C. driving… intrude

D. after… disrupt
E. following… awaken

The best answer is A. It is idiomatic to talk about the rationale behind x. Similarly,
conflicts are said to arise.


Never before in ___________ history have monetary and fiscal policies been as
motivating as today, and yet, the American economy remains weak and vulnerable.

A. today’s
B. yesteryear’s
C. yesterday’s
D. recent
E. topical

The best answer is D. Today’s history, yesteryear’s history and yesterday’s history
are unidiomatic expressions. Topical history is illogical.
The open nature of the web, its unpredictable and ___________ proliferation of ideas
and open source software was ___________ to the world's leading operating systems
company.

A. untenable… propagation
B. insupportable… panacea
C. copious… abomination
D. uncontrollable … anathema
E. bountiful … atomization

The best answer is C. Both copious proliferation and bountiful proliferation are
redundant. Uncontrollable is the most logical choice for the first blank. Since

uncontrollable has a negative connotation, anathema, also a negative word, is a
logical choice.


Front Inc., ___________ by the 1999 merger between Front Bank and Merchant’s
Bank, has been at the ___________ of merger rumors for years.


A. started… middle
B. created … center
C. began… apex
D. founded… summit
E. fashioned… maelstrom

The best answer is B. A company is created by a merger. Founded is appropriate to
use to refer to a completely new company. Fashioned cannot be followed by by to
refer to the company’s origins.



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.


A. senior… ample
B. younger… sufficient
C. old… generous
D. older … adequate
E. advanced… prolific

The best answer is D. Since the younger workers are watching parents and other in
____ generations, the others are likely of their parents’ generation, hence older is
logical. The second blank must contain a word that explains why older generation
would go back to work.

Outspoken ___________ as a teenager, he was dismissed from high school when he
refused to compromise his word to a school ___________.

A. from his time… mascot
B. early… officer
C. already… teacher
D. still… regulation
E. even … principal

The best answer is E. From his time and early are unidiomatic and still is illogical.
Already is awkward in the first blank.



College costs once again have increased far faster than inflation, with ___________ at
state schools posting the biggest ___________ in 30 years

A. fees… augmentation
B. costs… depreciation
C. revenues… devaluation
D. tuition… increase
E. payments… intensification

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.

A. fritter… previous
B. spend … last
C. save… past
D. squander… preceding
E. invest… prior

The best answer is B. Fritter and squander have negative connotations that are not in
keeping with the tone of the sentence. One does not invest in a vacation.


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

A. Once… systems
B. Ever… channels
C. Sometimes… broadcasts
D. Never … airwaves
E. Always… television

The best answer is D. Only choices D and E fit the sentence grammatically. Public
television cannot follow the definite article.

Since the success of his last book and his Oscar-winning ___________, (a success he
likes to remind you of at every ___________), he has become the most prominent
liberal agitator in the West.
A. presentation…moment
B. documentary… opportunity
C. staging…minute
D. film…prospect
E. enactment… initiation

The best answer is B. A documentary or a film are choices which could be Oscar-
winning. For the second blank, prospect and initiation are illogical. Moment and
minute cannot come after at every.



The most successful remodeling projects begin with homeowners ___________ have
a imaginative, yet ___________, idea of what they want done.

A. that… sensational
B. where… pragmatic
C. which… inspired
D. whom… dazzling
E. who … realistic

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.

A. as well… rehearsal
B. also… exhibition
C. additionally…
D. too… revision
E. besides… showing

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 ___________.

A. income … found
B. disbursements… discovered
C. expenses… uncovered
D. salaries… related
E. tolls… manifested

The best answer is A. Disbursements and expenses mean the same as expenditures
and are therefore redundant. An individual usually doesn’t have many salaries and
does not collect tolls.

Their income has proven ___________ to maintain what they regard as a
comfortable, though not ___________, lifestyle.

A. superficial… excessive
B. opulent… verifiable
C. sufficient… luxurious
D. ample… fulsome
E. sketchy… extraordinary

The best answer is C. Sufficient and ample are suitable to describe income that can
maintain a comfortable lifestyle.