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  1. It appears that a new consensus has taken hold these days among the world’s business and policy elites about how to address the anti-globalization___________that populists such as Donald Trump have so ably___________.
    1) assignment, uncommercialized
    2) obligation, commercialised
    3) exertion, non-profit-making
    4) backlash, exploited
    5) endeavor, blue-sky
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : backlash, exploited

  2. As people struggle to hold on to their shrinking share of the pie, their___________has created a political opening for opportunistic populists,___________the world order in the process.
    1) travail, nonchalance
    2) grindstone, agitation
    3) assurance, arousal
    4) anxiety, shaking
    5) drudgery, discomposure
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : anxiety, shaking

  3. While this makes sense for airlines, which want to foster loyalty among frequent___________, it represents yet another way in which wealth is___________in the marketplace.
    1) endeavors, excitement
    2) exertions, distressed
    3) assignments, perturbedness
    4) fliers, rewarded
    5) drudge, penalty
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : fliers, rewarded

  4. Therefore, trade deals___________enhance national___________only to the extent that winners compensate losers.
    1) calmness, torment
    2) servitude, punishment
    3) unambiguously, wellbeing
    4) attempt, management
    5) obligation, ownership
    Answer – 3)
    Explanation : unambiguously, wellbeing

  5. ___________also ensures support for trade openness from broader___________and should be good politics.
    1) Compensation, constituencies
    2) slogging, compensation
    3) striving, aggravation
    4) stint, comforts
    5) composure, facilitation
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : Compensation, constituencies

  6. The effort by Trump and his Congressional___________to___________former President Barack Obama’s signature health-insurance program reflected Republicans’ commitment to scaling back, not expanding, social protections.
    1) contentment, collaboration
    2) botheration, backing
    3) exasperation, abetment
    4) commission, reinforcement
    5) allies, emasculate
    Answer – 5) 
    Explanation : allies, emasculate

  7. Today the advanced countries that are the most___________to the international economy are also those where safety nets and social insurance programs – welfare states are the most___________.
    1) exposed, extensive
    2) adepted, skillful
    3) tranquility, instrument
    4) cracked, remaining
    5) crackerjack,  immigration
    Answer – 1)
    Explanation : exposed, extensive

  8. Prior to the welfare state, the tension between openness and___________was resolved either by large-scale___________of workers or by re-imposing trade protection, especially in agriculture.
    1) experienced, arriving
    2) redistribution, emigration
    3) masterly, equipment
    4) proficient, responsibility
    5) utensil, gadget
    Answer – 2)
    Explanation : redistribution, emigration

  9. fiscally___________congressional Republicans will object to a___________increase in the public debt.
    1) skilled, responsible
    2) exaggerated, cautious
    3) incautious, appliance
    4) conservative, reckless
    5) liberal, contrivance
    Answer – 4)
    Explanation : conservative, reckless

  10. ___________revenue-neutral tax cuts for almost all income brackets means that Republicans would have to phase out many___________and broaden the tax base in ways that are politically untenable.
    1) radical, annoyance
    2) progressive, liability
    3) apparatus, answerability
    4) contraption, accountability
    5) Implementing, exemptions
    Answer – 5)
    Explanation : Implementing, exemptions