English Questions: Fill in the Blanks Set – 82

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1. I warned that the UK will need to adopt a far more focused and__________approach to trade, not unlike that of China or India, if it is to__________well after Brexit.
   1) satisfied, greed
   2) unassuming, barge in
   3) fulfilled, barge in
   4) ambitious, fare
   5) content,  attain
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : ambitious, fare
   Ambitious – having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed.
   
   
2. Rather than__________nonsense about China__________its currency, should be encouraging market forces to rebalance bilateral trade.
   1) millpond, abusing
   2) spewing, manipulating
   3) obstruction, judging
   4) hindrance, assimilating
   5) barrage, reprimanding
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : spewing, manipulating
   
   
3. Eurozone politicians and Donald Trump’s administration in the United States are each blaming the other for the economic__________; and all are__________the euro.
   1) abysmal, appealing
   2) imbalance, blaming
   3) alikeness, equality,
   4) likeness, probability
   5) criticism, similarity
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 2)
   Explanation : imbalance, blaming
   
   
4. Trump’s administration, for its part, has__________Germany for exporting too much, and accused it of__________the euro.
   1) dazzled, bettering
   2) skittered, deserting
   3) hacked, desolating
   4) attacked, manipulating
   5) cracked, isolating
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4)
   Explanation : attacked, manipulating  
   
   
5. Germany’s trade__________has little to do with the euro; which has become a convenient__________ – a stand-in for other policy mistakes.
   1) lacking, sacrilegious
   2) necessary, privileged
   3) needing, essential
   4) surplus , surplus
   5) essential,  wanting
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4) 
   Explanation : surplus , surplus 
   
   
6. Given the clear benefits of__________monetary policy, central bankers need to open their eyes to the possibilities that__________affords.
   1) awkward, unity
   2) unhandy, amity
   3) lumbering, consanguinity
   4) clumsy, creativity
   5) nimble , flexibility
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 5) 
   Explanation : nimble , flexibility 
   
   
7. The__________wisdom holds that in order to return the inflation rate to a preferred level, any__________in the economy must be eliminated.
   1) unrepresentative, taut
   2)  peculiar, stiff
   3) prevailing, slack
   4) devianting, fragile
   5)  heteroclite, rigid
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation : prevailing, slack 
   
   
8. The__________has become so universally accepted – and the model__________underpinning central banks’ decisions have become so complex – that few are willing to question it.
   1) preternatural, consistent
   2) divergent, exceptional
   3) abnormal, different
   4) paradigm ,simulations
   5) aberrant, perpetual
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 4) 

   Explanation : paradigm ,simulations

   
   
9. Central banks do not completely deny the economic costs that these policies imply: __________in financial markets, financing gaps in funded pension systems, and deeper wealth inequality, to name just a few.
   1) dullness
   2) limpness
   3) exuberance
   4) titlist
   5) satiric
   
   Answer & Explanation

   Answer – 3)
   Explanation : exuberance
   
   
10. Keynes never tired of arguing that monetary policy becomes ineffective if__________is sufficient to__________the expectations of consumers and investors.
    1) sureness, grades
    2) security, forced
    3) definiteness, reinforce
    4) uncertainty, destabilize
    5) certainty,  strengthen
    
    Answer & Explanation

    Answer – 4) 
    Explanation : uncertainty, destabilize