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____________ Nick Fenand in his squad for Iraq's rich roots in Mesopotamia, the region
next month's qualifying match against between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that gave
Liechtenstein despite doubts ____________ __________to the world's first urban civilization
the player’s fitness. some 5,000 years ago.
The best answer is A. Doubts by, on or over The best answer is D. Gave birth is idiomatic. It
are not idiomatic expressions. The team’s ties in with the mention of roots and the world’s
manager has done something despite doubts first urban civilization.
about the player’s fitness so it is logical that
he included the player in his squad. Originally, the project was planned to take at
least 15 years, but effective resource and
technological advances have ________ the
The Anasazi, a civilization that arose as early team’s progress.
as 1500 BC, occupied the region now
__________ as the Four Corners, where Utah A. energized
Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet, for B. postponed
centuries. C. accelerated
D. deferred
A. invoked E. reduced
B. known
C. labeled The best answer is C. The word but indicates
D. denoted that the project will not take as long planned,
E. assumed therefore, it is logical that it was accelerated.
The best answer is B. Unfortunate is too weak The best answer is B. The word despite signals
a word to describe such an event. that there is a contradiction in the two parts of
Cataclysmic is apt. In choices D and E, move the sentence which rules out C. Continue to… is
and revisit do not fit with the last clause of the idiomatic, whereas persevere, persist and incur
sentence. A house and homeland cannot shift. cannot be followed by to.
Those __________ ancestors doubtless found Federal data show that the number of citizens
sticks helpful for pointing out a direction, receiving welfare __________ again last year
tracing a diagram in the dirt or __________ even though an economic slowdown pushed
up a slab of useful flint. more people into __________.
The best answer is C. Choices A and E make The best answer is E. Even though signals that
the ancestors sound as though they were still there is a contrast from one part of the sentence
alive. There is no reason for the ancestors to to another. Choice E provides for the
be considered faulty. The second blank must appropriate contrast. An economic slowdown
be filled with a gerund (-ing form). cannot push people into affluence or
subservience.
Mr. Miller has expressed his hope that the The country is a regional __________, an
project can __________ support for absolute but highly dynamic monarchy that has
conserving the Silverson Wildlife Complex. created an economic __________ out of little
more than vision, geography and will.
A. raise
B. rally A. anomaly… powerhouse
C. mount B. synchronicity… giant
D. foster C. incongruity… dwarf
E. booster D. paradox… dependency
E. discrepancy… power
The best answer is B. To rally support is an
idiomatic expression. The best answer is A. Synchronicity and
discrepancy have to relate to two or more things
(i.e. a discrepancy between x and y). That is not
The term conservationist had been defined by the case here. Out of little more indicates that
some as a person who believes that the natural something was made out of next to nothing,
world is endlessly __________ and beautiful, which is only remarkable if what was created
and therefore as much of it as possible should was positive, such as an economic powerhouse.
be __________.
A. blocks… fosters
More than 80 schools have been __________, B. stops… pumps
with similar rehabilitation works in progress C. halts… supplies
or in the final stages of __________. D. closes… feed
E. obstructs… presages
A. achieved… configuration
B. jointed… formulation The best answer is D. Closes off is idiomatic.
C. ended… sponsorship One can feed, pump or supply blood to the heart,
D. finished… reproduction but not foster or presage.
E. completed… planning
The best answer is E. A school can be In this era of managed nursing care, Smith
finished or completed, but not achieved, continues to __________ a kind of medicine that
jointed or ended. In the final stages of most people assume nearly vanished, bringing to
planning is more logical and is idiomatic. their rounds tenderness and profound
__________.
The best answer is C. Since it is the first day The best answer is D. Since it was done in
of an investigation that is scheduled to last a entrepreneurial style, one would assume that
week, it makes sense that the speculation was what Kelly did was successful. Flourishing and
called initial. starving are, therefore, apt. For the second
blank, principles is a much better choice since
one does not teach a whim.
__________ its high concentration of family-
owned manufacturing firms, dating back to
the late 1800s, Blendens Furniture is With its personal touches, including twice-daily
accustomed to the ups and downs of the housekeeping and round-the-clock concierge
business __________ . service, the hotel has a delightful your-wish-is-
our-command air about the place, without the
A. Having… phase __________ you might find __________ .
B. With … cycle
C. Due to… rotation A. ornamentation… somewhere else
D. Owning… sequence B. stuffiness … elsewhere
E. Overseeing… disarray C. artifacts… missing
D. dankness… beyond
The best answer is B. Having and owning at E. insubordination… away
the beginning of a sentence cannot precede
its. For the second blank, cycle is the best The best answer is C. The sentence is praising
choice for something described as having ups the hotel so one would expect that the hotel
and downs. would be without something negative.
Insubordination can only be used to describe a
person. Dankness and stuffiness are appropriate
Last week, Texitron, an American firm with choice for the first blank, but beyond is not a
factories in 40 countries, __________ it was logical choice for the second blank.
closing two more plants, __________ the
number of Texitron jobs lost to 1,030 this
year. Verton executives challenged the web site tactic,
___________ that if customers switched, the
___________ would lose revenues and the very
A. determined… setting jobs the union was trying to protect.
B. decided… deranging
C. proclaimed… putting A. arguing … company
B. argued… firm C. spurt… obsequious
C. proclaiming… employee D. reflection… peaceable
D. stated… worker E. evidence … powerful
E. questioning… staff member
The best answer is E. Growing evidence is
The best answer is A. A gerund form, such as idiomatic. Something that does not contradict
arguing, proclaiming or questioning is needed long-lasting, such as powerful, is needed to fill
to fill the first blank. Questioning cannot the second blank.
precede that. One uses the word revenue to
talk about the income of a company, not that
of individuals. Following years of generous stock options,
corporate jets and other ___________, boards
are ___________ their belts when it comes to
___________ an increase in attacks on the executive pay.
existing technology, Netfix said that it would
release features across its line of network A. perks…
firewall products. B. liabilities…
C. benefits … tightening
A. Mentioning… D. encumbrances…
B. Talking… E. prosperity…
C. Combining…
D. Citing … The best answer is C. Generous stock options
E. Toting… and corporate jets would likely be described as
something positive, such as a perk or a benefit.
The best answer is D. Mentioning is too To tighten ones belt is an idiomatic expression.
casual. Talking cannot precede an increase….
Combining and toting are illogical.
The ___________ of tap dance can be traced to
the antebellum South when African-American
Its ___________ includes such treasures as slaves, adept at copying Irish jigs and Lancashire
woven funerary shoes from a royal tomb in clogging, improvised and embellished those
ancient Thebes and a rare pair of Inuit boots dances with their own ___________ and
___________ of eider skin. movements.
The best answer is B. Compilation cannot be The best answer is A. Only an origin or a birth
appropriately applied to shoes. A pile or can be traced. A dance can be embellished with
stock cannot include items. Only made can a rhythm, not with apathy.
go before of.
The best answer is C. A highway can carry To memorialize their loved ones, the
vehicles or automobiles, but none of the other ___________ are increasingly turning to
options. Choice D is incorrect because personalization, and those in the funeral business
arriving would have to be followed by at. are responding to the ___________ with a
variety of tasteful customized products.
The public attention it generates could help A. lonely…plea
lay the ___________ for the kind of national B. bereaved … demand
consensus needed to bring substantial reform C. mourners… task
to health-care delivery. D. destitute… endowment
A. groundwork E. next-of-kin… ultimatum
B. beginning
C. basis The best answer is B. Any of the choices could
D. center feasibly fill in the first blank, but bereaved is the
E. origin most logical because it refers to people who
memorialize their loved ones.
___________ targeting the home and home
business.
While supporting publicly funded health care,
Dr. Roberts, president of the National A. enclosing… each
Orthopedic Association, hopes the case B. including… both
___________ much needed debate. C. attaching… none
D. containing… all
A. makes E. enfolding… some
B. quells
C. stirs The best answer is B. A line of products can
D. agitates logically be said to include certain items. Both is
E. represses the logical choice to refer to two items.
A. time … calamity
In a fascinating book, science ___________ B. moment… distress
Sarah Helm ___________ there is far more to C. week … crisis
moths than meets the eye. D. today… tragedy
E. day… emergency
A. scribbler… exposes
B. writer … reveals The best answer is C. Only week can be used for
C. dabbler… tells the first blank. Choice A and B do not make
D. author… thinks sense. Today and day cannot follow this.
E. sycophant… discloses
The best answer is B. Only choices B and D Medical Update, a monthly newsletter that
can fill the first blank. All the choices to fill reports on epidemiological surveys and other
the second blank besides reveals cannot ___________ of the society, is ___________ by
precede a complete clause. this division.
A. doings… disordered
Founded in 1976, the Benjamin Franklin B. episodes… put out
Literary & Medical Society has become a C. bouts… disseminated
leading ___________ of information on D. activities … published
health and medicine for the general E. segments… assembled
___________.
The best answer is D. The first blank must be
A. source … public filled by something of which surveys can be
B. well… citizenry considered an example, such as activities. Also,
C. scourge… populous a report being published is logical.
D. font… community
tone in Europe, with higher-than-forecast
A judge ___________ an Arizona woman to ___________ again the main driver of gains.
60 days home detention for intercepting her
husband's ex-wife's e-mail, saying the penalty A. rejoinders
is a warning to others who might be tempted B. profits
to do ___________. C. deficiencies
D. depreciation
A. ordered… so E. stupefaction
B. declared… such
C. sentenced … the same The best answer is B. Since a positive tone was
D. segregated… as well set, profits is a logical outcome.
E. mediated… similar
The renaissance in farmers' markets began just
The best answer is C. Only ordered and ___________ 20 years ago in several places,
sentenced can be followed with …to 60 ___________ them California and New York
days…. The same has a much clearer referent City.
than so.
A. more… with
B. over … among
In the magazine, national health surveys are C. more than… between
taken to ___________ current research on D. above… some of
topics such as cancer, diabetes, high blood E. up… some
pressure, heart disease, and bipolar disorder.
The best answer is B. Just over is correct and
A. proliferate idiomatic. Among them is the appropriate
B. propagate expression to single a few out of a group.
C. distance
D. further
E. dissect Net margins for grocery stores were sorely
___________, so a group of usually
The best answer is D. To further research, uncooperative supermarket executives joined
meaning to advance it, is idiomatic. ___________ with a few food manufacturers to
come up with a system to automate checkout
stands.
Outside the courtroom, the lanky
___________ told TV cameras he now hoped A. drooping… influences
to get a job as a computer security B. lowered… cogency
___________ or programmer. C. falling… teams
D. lagging… harnesses
A. gentleman… personnel E. sagging … forces
B. teenager … consultant
C. chap… resource The best answer is E. The adjective sorely is
D. constituent… competitor most appropriately used with either lagging or
E. adolescent… player sagging. Joined harnesses is illogical. Joined
forces is idiomatic.
The best answer is B. Lanky is an adjective
most often used to describe teenagers.
Personnel and resource do not fit because it is As recently as the 1980s, production far
a non-countable noun. outstripped ___________, and the government
was paying dairy farmers $1 billion to thin their
herds while it bought tons of ___________
A late rally on Wall Street after most cheese.
European markets had closed set a positive
A. supply… extra
B. planning … unwanted C. simpler… tools
C. demand … surplus D. simplest … tissues
D. quota… surreptitious E. small… pianos
E. billing… supercilious
The best answer is D. An expression of the form
The best answer is C. For the first blank, The ______ something on earth requires the use
choices A and E are illogical. B and D are of the superlative (-est) form to fill the blank.
ungrammatical. Since production “far Organs and tissues are both parts of a body so
outstripped demand,” surplus is a logical they logically fit together.
choice for the second blank.
After Borden received ___________ in 1856 A highly ___________ gas, methyl bromide is
for producing concentrated milk in a vacuum, injected into the soil before planting,
condensed milk became an important part of ___________ out nearly everything alive.
the dairy ___________.
A. toxic … wiping
A. an award… subject B. redundant… moving
B. a copyright… field C. foul… selling
C. a document… trade D. noxious … killing
D. a patent … industry E. recombinant… taking
E. power of attorney… business
The best answer is A. A gas cannot be
The best answer is D. Choices A and D can redundant or recombinant. Killing out is not
logically fill the first blank, but industry idiomatic, while moving out cannot be used in a
makes much more sense for the second transitive sense.
choice.
The best answer is A. Erroneously is the best The grandson of a Haitian slave, Dumas became
choice because it qualifies the word believing. the most famous author in France; now, his
rousing romantic novels are enjoying renewed
___________.
___________ in the University's Research
Park, the Patton Center is the catalyst that A. infamy
brings together the people and ideas necessary B. unanimity
for ___________ successful enterprises. C. disrepute
D. popularity
A. Found… beginning E. disparity
B. Stationed… setting
C. Lying… inaugurating The best answer is D. Since Dumas was the most
D. Facing… fixating famous author, it is logical that what is renewed
E. Located … launching is his popularity.
A. devotees… public
B. enthusiasts… marketable E. investigator… capitol
C. detractors… economic
D. concordances … profitable The best answer is D. Choices C and D are
E. skeptics … wholesale illogical for the first blank. Choice A is not
idiomatic. Revenues is not a word used to
The best answer is E. One silences opposing describe payments made by an individual.
voices, therefore, choices D and E can
logically fill the first blank. Retail and
wholesale logically go together. Some economists are predicting that demand
will catch up with productivity shortly,
___________ an enormous boom in job growth.
Stenton, who was ___________ in New York
City in 1915, spent most of his life sharing his A. making
love of music by teaching others to B. shooting
___________ the piano. C. spurring
D. spinning
A. educated… listen E. goading
B. born … play
C. taught… love The best answer is C. Spurring, a verb whose
D. raised… appreciate origins come from the spurs of a horseback
E. grown… adore rider’s boots, is appropriate to describe
something that causes an enormous boom.
The best answer is B. The first blank requires
a verb to refer to an action that happened in
1915. Other than choice B, all the choices The city is ___________ to annex land for new,
refer to things that happen over a period of suburban-style homes, but zoning abuses blight
years. existing neighborhoods with ___________
construction.
Some agencies offer financing ___________ Seth Walters has ___________ more than four
for developers to encourage the building of decades in commercial banking, ___________
___________ housing. from a bank messenger to president and CEO of
the Merchant’s Bank.
A. incentives … rental
B. perks… semi-permanent A. caroled… upping
C. bonuses… viable B. resided… increasing
D. encouragement… marketable C. loafed… raising
E. raises… salable D. spent … rising
E. squandered… starting
The best answer is A. Perks, encouragement
and raises are usually given to employees, not The best answer is D. Grammatically, choices A,
developers. Housing cannot be viable. 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
Marks, ___________ forecaster, estimates squandered, Walters would not have risen to the
that, compared to the administration's position of president.
dividend tax cuts, extending unemployment
benefits would produce a 20 times
___________ positive effect on the gross As healthcare costs grow, the problem of the
domestic product. underinsured will only get ___________, as
corporations seek to control costs by continuing
A. a reliable… greatest to raise ___________ for employees.
B. an economic … greater
C. an intuitive… great A. worse … deductibles
D. a moneyed… worse B. depleted… deductions
E. a furtive… worst C. alleviated… welts
D. recompensed… interest
The best answer is B. Choices A, B and C are E. disparaged… abscesses
reasonable to fill the first blank. D and E are
possible, but would be unusual. After a 20 The best answer is A. The phrase the problem
times greater___, a comparative form of will only get ___, is generally followed by
adjective is needed, such as greater. something negative, such as worse. Deductibles
is logical since the sentence refers to insurance
(the problem of the underinsured).
As a politician's wife, Carole Samuels became
active in her own ___________, attending
chamber of commerce breakfasts and At the school, she wrote and directed several
historical society meetings, and ___________ ___________ productions about the Everglades
in the Gardener’s Club. and its ___________ as well as tributes to
historic Floridians, such as Marjory Stoneman
A. way… convened Douglas.
B. time… convening
C. self… ran A. physical… fauna
D. right… running B. theatrical … animals
E. identity… chaired C. musical… locations
D. creative… flora
E. prolific… alligators
The best answer is B. Theatrical productions The best answer is C. To breath easier is
and musical productions are idiomatic. idiomatic. Used metaphorically, fears can be
Animals is a better choice than locations for unleashed.
something that belongs to the Everglades.
Prosecutors have ___________ a wealth of Many of these prizes are ___________ at the
circumstantial evidence linking the six Faculty of Business presentation ceremony
___________ to the deadly bombing. ___________ is held in June for the preceding
academic year.
A. collected… detectives
B. amassed … suspects A. designated…who
C. accumulated… suspicions B. relegated… that
D. assembled… executors C. awarded… which
E. engineered… perpetrators D. stultified… in which
E. given… where
The best answer is B. To amass wealth is
idiomatic. Here the expression is expanded to The best answer is C. Prizes are normally
refer to a wealth of evidence. Suspects is awarded or given. Which is the appropriate
appropriate to refer to people accused but not pronoun to refer to the ceremony.
yet tried.
The best answer is B. One cannot cruise or The recent arrest has ___________ concern
skim the sea floor. A mystery can be about a government push against powerful
described as enduring when it has been in business barons before the ___________
existence for a long period of time. elections.
A. hurdled… forthcoming
By ___________ the elements in the bones of B. marked… approaching
a person long dead, researchers can C. initiated… short
___________ the main constituents of that D. sparked … upcoming
individual's diet. E. kindled… near
The best answer is . Excavations remove The best answer is D. Today’s history,
objects from the earth therefore, unearthed is yesteryear’s history and yesterday’s history are
an appropriate choice. Crowning jewels is unidiomatic expressions. Topical history is
idiomatic. illogical.
Though the economy ___________ through a The open nature of the web, its unpredictable
recession in 2001, super-low interest rates and ___________ proliferation of ideas and open
have ___________ demand for mortgages, source software was ___________ to the world's
which has encouraged a boom in mortgage leading operating systems company.
refinancing.
A. untenable… propagation
A. battled… incited B. insupportable… panacea
B. conceded… impelled C. copious… abomination
C. suffered … fueled D. uncontrollable … anathema
D. slogged… driven E. bountiful … atomization
E. smudged… posited
The best answer is C. Both copious
The best answer is C. A recession is a proliferation and bountiful proliferation are
negative occurrence so it is appropriate that redundant. Uncontrollable is the most logical
one would battle or suffer through it. Fuel choice for the first blank. Since uncontrollable
can be used figuratively to mean promote. has a negative connotation, anathema, also a
negative word, is a logical choice.
A. dialogue
What was a ruthlessly effective way of B. language
enhancing their electoral fortunes has C. vernacular
developed into a compulsion never to allow D. jargon
any leader much of a chance to ___________. E. clauses
A. precede… rainfall
Professional searchers will travel the B. predict… cloud
___________ over, using any ___________ C. prepare… shower
possible — from satellites to simple theft — D. forecast … blizzard
to acquire meteorites. E. forbear… tornado
Supporters of helmet laws say the government Under the emerging plan, the cuts would not take
should punish states that do not require ___________ if hospitals agreed to provide the
helmets, since the public often ___________ data that the administration has requested.
up paying medical costs for those
___________ in motorcycle accidents. A. shape
B. in
A. take… involved C. place
B. winds… tangled D. over
C. give… drawn E. time
D. lend… wounded
E. ends … injured The best answer is C. Take place is appropriate
because it is an idiomatic expression meaning to
The best answer is E. Ends up provides a occur.
justification for governments to punish states
that do not require helmets. Wounded or
injured are logical choices for the second Swift Airlines pilots have approved a measure
blank, but injured is more often used to refer allowing their union, the Air Line Pilots
to people in accidents. Association, to call a ___________ at one of the
nation's largest regional carriers in a
___________ over a new contract.
The company's plan is to ___________ costs
while trying to exploit its traditional strengths A. truce… disagreement
in entertainment and video games - B. ceasefire… disparity
particularly with new networked and wireless C. strike… dispute
consumer ___________. D. party… prong
E. bash… gap
A. trim … devices
B. skimp… gadgets The best answer is C. While call a truce, call a
C. clip… contraptions ceasefire and call a strike are all idiomatic, only
D. shape… implements strike is logical in reference to airline pilots.
E. wedge… widgets Strikes are generally called because of disputes
over new contracts.
B. stops
One study suggests that children who live in C. continues
homes where the television is on most of the D. fails
time ___________ have more trouble E. neglects
learning to read than other kids.
The best answer is C. Because of the word
A. do despite in the sentence, the blank must be filled
B. may with something that creates a contrast in the
C. should sentence. Continue is the only word that does
D. also this.
E. cannot
A. tallying… rampant
B. denigration… unrestrained
C. aeration… raging
D. declaration … unfettered
E. proclamation… epidermal
A. detect … threats
B. multiply… microbes
C. spread… proliferations
D. relieve… bugs
E. allot… intimidations
A. ceases