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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 4) 
    Explanation : uncertainty, destabilize