An estimated one in every five people is ______________ (ABLE) to keep their spending habits under control
Answer: A
Correct answer: Unable
The sentence reports a failure to control spending, so the adjective must be negative: the prefix un- turns able into unable. Able to would reverse the meaning.
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Cars have given us freedom. We can go wherever we want to go, _______________________ (EVER) we want to go
Answer: B
Correct answer: Whenever
The blank parallels wherever we want to go in the clause before, so it must be the time word of the same family: whenever. Whatever asks about the thing rather than the moment.
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They have also brought us _______________________ (DEPEND)
Answer: B
Correct answer: independence
The sentence continues the claim that cars have given us freedom, so the noun must be positive: DEPEND with in- gives independence. Interdependence means reliance on one another, which is the opposite of the freedom being described.
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We don’t have to make compromises or take into _______________________ (CONSIDER) where other people want to travel.
Answer: A
Correct answer: consideration
Take into consideration is a fixed phrase, and it takes the noun form of CONSIDER. Considerence is not a word.
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Cars provide us with a personalised transport _______________________ (SOLVE) that’s always available
Answer: A
Correct answer: Solution
The blank follows the noun modifier transport and needs a noun of its own: SOLVE gives solution. Solves and solved are verb forms.
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We all enjoy the facilities that shopping malls and _______________________ (ENTERTAIN) complexes bring us, because we can use our cars to get there
Answer: A
Correct answer: Entertainment
The blank modifies complexes, and English uses a noun in that position: entertainment complexes, like shopping malls just before it. Entertaining and entertained are participles.
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Cars are efficient, _______________________ (CONVENIENCE) and fast.
Answer: B
Correct answer: Convenient
The blank sits in a list of adjectives - efficient, ___ and fast - so the adjective form of CONVENIENCE is required. Conveyance is a noun, and a different word besides.
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Preferring our _______________________ (FREE) to sharing transport with others, we get into our cars to get to our workplaces, do our shopping, or to go out to the theatre
Answer: B
Correct answer: Freedom
Preferring our ___ needs a noun, and the noun from FREE is freedom. Frees is a verb form.
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Parking spaces are huge areas of land used up by empty cars _______________________ (WAIT) for hours for their passengers to return
Answer: A
Correct answer: waiting
The blank describes the empty cars, so a present participle is needed: cars waiting for hours. Awaits is a finite verb and would leave the sentence with two main verbs.
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Which one word can be formed from the following letters ?
a a d e f g r s u
Answer: B
Correct answer: safeguard
The nine letters given are a, a, d, e, f, g, r, s, u - and SAFEGUARD uses each of them exactly once. Stagnation needs two t's and an n, grandson needs an n and an o, and pseudo-grade needs a p and an o. Checking for a letter the word needs but the list does not contain is the fastest way through this type.
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