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The plan calls for combining taxes on all sources of CO2 with a rebate of the collected revenues to all households on a per capita basis. Experts tell us that a tax of $40 per metric ton would achieve greater reduction in CO2 than all of the existing emissions regulations. Our plan therefore calls for legislation that eliminates all of this intrusive regulation in _(1)_[tandem] with the tax-and-dividend plan.
Our group recognizes that there is substantial controversy about the extent of global warming both now and in the future, as well as about the role of CO2 emissions from automobiles, home heating, and other human activity in _(2)_[scattering] to that warming. But we believe the risk that CO2 emissions will lead to dangerous future increases in global temperature is high enough that a policy should be _(3)_[congenital] to reduce it.
A carbon tax is the simplest and economically most efficient way to limit CO2 emissions. It is better than the more _(4)_[exquisite] methods of regulation now in place. It is also simpler and more reliable than the “cap and trade” method that has been tried in Europe and proposed during President Barack Obama’s administration.The strategy of a carbon tax is very simple: require each household and business that causes CO2 emissions to pay a tax in _(5)_[unevenness] to the volume of emissions that they create – whether by using gasoline to drive their car or oil to heat their home or in operating a business.

  1. 1) discrete
    2) secluded
    3) distinct
    4) diacritic
    5) No correction required.
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation: The given word is correct. Hence no correction is required.

  2. 1) characteristic
    2) contributing
    3) expressing
    4) separating
    5) No correction required.
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: contributing – give (something, especially money) in order to help achieve or provide something.

  3. 1) adopted
    2) personalized
    3) inveterate
    4) inbred
    5) No correction required.
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation: adopted – legally take (another’s child) and bring it up as one’s own.

  4. 1) balletic
    2) genuine
    3) cumbersome
    4) endemic
    5) No correction required.
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation: cumbersome – large or heavy and therefore difficult to carry or use; unwieldy.

  5. 1) definite
    2) proportion
    3) curvaceous
    4) lissome
    5) No correction required.
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: proportion – a part, share, or number considered in comparative relation to a whole.

    The right to laziness has traditionally been only for the propertied rich, whereas the poor have had to struggle for decent wages and working conditions, unemployment and disability insurance, universal health care, and other accoutrements of a _(1)_[dignified] life. The idea that the poor should be granted an unconditional income sufficient to live on has been anathema not only to the high and mighty, but also to the labor movement, which _(2)_[different] an ethic revolving around reciprocity, solidarity, and contributing to society.
    When unconditional basic-income schemes were proposed decades ago, they inevitably met _(3)_[rapture] reactions from employers’ associations, trade unions, economists, and politicians. Recently, however, the idea has resurfaced, gathering impressive support from the radical left, the Green movement, and even from the _(4)_[fruition] right. The cause is the rise of machines that, for the first time since the start of industrialization, threaten to destroy more jobs than technological _(5)_[innovation] creates – and to pull the rug out from under the feet of white-collar professionals.

  6. 1) demote
    2) belittle
    3) dignified
    4) condemn
    5) No correction required.
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation: The given word is correct. Hence no correction is required.

  7. 1) disgrace
    2) uncommon
    3) degrade
    4) embraced
    5) No correction required.
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation: embraced – hold (someone) closely in one’s arms, especially as a sign of affection.

  8. 1) humiliate
    2) outraged
    3) contentmented
    4) detract
    5) No correction required.
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation: outraged – arouse fierce anger, shock, or indignation in (someone).

  9. 1) libertarian
    2) unusual
    3) ecstasy
    4) hilarity
    5) No correction required.
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation: libertarian – an adherent of libertarianism.

  10. 1) gratification
    2) developed
    3) creation
    4) technology
    5) No correction required.
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation: The given word is correct. Hence no correction is required.