English Quiz For Practice Test

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.

In economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A recession is ___(1)___ by rising unemployment, increase in government borrowing, ___(2)___, of share and stock prices, and falling investment. All of these characteristics have effects on people. Some recessions have been anticipated by stock market declines. The real – estate market also usually ___(3)___ before a recession. During an economic decline, high ___(4)___ stocks such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and tobacco ___(5)___ to hold up better. However, when the economy starts to recover growth, stocks tend to recover faster. There is significant disagreement about how health care and utilities tend to ___(6)___

In 2008, an economic recession was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn. These ___(7)___ high oil prices, which led to ___(8)___ high food prices due to a dependence of food production on petroleum, as well as using food crop products such as ethanol and biodiesel as an ___(9)___ to petroleum; and global inflation; a substantial credit crisis investment banks as well ___(10)___ as commercial banks in various, and signs of contemporaneous economic downturns in major economics of the world, a global recession.

1. 

(1) imagined 

(2)depict 

(3) shown

(4) visualized 

(5) characterized

2. 

(1) Increase 

(2) variance 

(3) more

(4) decrease 

(5) abundance

3. 

(1) weakens 

(2) intiates 

(3) awakens

(4) strengthens 

(5) volatile

4. 

(1) maintained 

(2) yield 

(3) heavy

(4) result  

(5) payment

5. 

(1) are  

(2) want 

(3)tend

(4) yearn 

(5) made

6. 

(1) distribute 

(2) recover 

(3) wait

(4) increased 

(5) fight

7. 

(1) meant  

(2) show 

(3) numbered

(4) included 

(5) encompass

8. 

(1) fearful  

(2) dangerous 

(3) abnormally

(4) healthy  

(5) nutritious

9. 

(1) alternative 

(2) variant 

(3) substitute

(4) element  

(5) integral

10. 

(1) wealthy 

(2) costly 

(3) stand

(4) created  

(5) established

Answers Key:

1. 5
2. 4
3. 1
4. 2
5. 3
6. 2
7. 4
8. 3
9. 1
10. 5

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