CLOZE TEST-TEST 16

In Economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A recession is____(A)____ by rising unemployment, increase in government borrowing,____(B)____, of share and stock prices, and falling investment. All of these characteristics have effects on people. Some recessions have been anticipated by stock market declines. The real – estate market also usually ____(C)____ before a recession. During an economic decline, high ____(D)____ stocks such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and tobacco ____(E)____ to hold up better. However, when the economy starts to recover growth, stocks tend to recover faster. There is significant disagreement about how health care and utilities tend to ____(F)____ In 2008, an economic recession was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn. These ____(G)____ high oil prices, which led to ____(H)___ high food prices due to a dependence of food production on petroleum, as well as using food crop products such as ethanol and biodiesel as an ____(I)____ to petroleum; and global inflation; a substantial credit crisis investment blanks as well ____(J)____ as commercial banks in various, and signs of contemporaneous economic downturns in major economics of the world, a global recession.

Which of the following words should fill in the blank (A) to make a contextually correct and meaningful sentence?

In Economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A recession is____(A)____ by rising unemployment, increase in government borrowing,____(B)____, of share and stock prices, and falling investment. All of these characteristics have effects on people. Some recessions have been anticipated by stock market declines. The real – estate market also usually ____(C)____ before a recession. During an economic decline, high ____(D)____ stocks such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and tobacco ____(E)____ to hold up better. However, when the economy starts to recover growth, stocks tend to recover faster. There is significant disagreement about how health care and utilities tend to ____(F)____ In 2008, an economic recession was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn. These ____(G)____ high oil prices, which led to ____(H)___ high food prices due to a dependence of food production on petroleum, as well as using food crop products such as ethanol and biodiesel as an ____(I)____ to petroleum; and global inflation; a substantial credit crisis investment blanks as well ____(J)____ as commercial banks in various, and signs of contemporaneous economic downturns in major economics of the world, a global recession.

Which of the following words should fill in the blank (B) to make a contextually correct and meaningful sentence?

In Economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A recession is____(A)____ by rising unemployment, increase in government borrowing,____(B)____, of share and stock prices, and falling investment. All of these characteristics have effects on people. Some recessions have been anticipated by stock market declines. The real – estate market also usually ____(C)____ before a recession. During an economic decline, high ____(D)____ stocks such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and tobacco ____(E)____ to hold up better. However, when the economy starts to recover growth, stocks tend to recover faster. There is significant disagreement about how health care and utilities tend to ____(F)____ In 2008, an economic recession was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn. These ____(G)____ high oil prices, which led to ____(H)___ high food prices due to a dependence of food production on petroleum, as well as using food crop products such as ethanol and biodiesel as an ____(I)____ to petroleum; and global inflation; a substantial credit crisis investment blanks as well ____(J)____ as commercial banks in various, and signs of contemporaneous economic downturns in major economics of the world, a global recession.

Which of the following words should fill in the blank (C) to make a contextually correct and meaningful sentence?

In Economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A recession is____(A)____ by rising unemployment, increase in government borrowing,____(B)____, of share and stock prices, and falling investment. All of these characteristics have effects on people. Some recessions have been anticipated by stock market declines. The real – estate market also usually ____(C)____ before a recession. During an economic decline, high ____(D)____ stocks such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and tobacco ____(E)____ to hold up better. However, when the economy starts to recover growth, stocks tend to recover faster. There is significant disagreement about how health care and utilities tend to ____(F)____ In 2008, an economic recession was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn. These ____(G)____ high oil prices, which led to ____(H)___ high food prices due to a dependence of food production on petroleum, as well as using food crop products such as ethanol and biodiesel as an ____(I)____ to petroleum; and global inflation; a substantial credit crisis investment blanks as well ____(J)____ as commercial banks in various, and signs of contemporaneous economic downturns in major economics of the world, a global recession.

Which of the following words should fill in the blank (D) to make a contextually correct and meaningful sentence?

In Economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A recession is____(A)____ by rising unemployment, increase in government borrowing,____(B)____, of share and stock prices, and falling investment. All of these characteristics have effects on people. Some recessions have been anticipated by stock market declines. The real – estate market also usually ____(C)____ before a recession. During an economic decline, high ____(D)____ stocks such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and tobacco ____(E)____ to hold up better. However, when the economy starts to recover growth, stocks tend to recover faster. There is significant disagreement about how health care and utilities tend to ____(F)____ In 2008, an economic recession was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn. These ____(G)____ high oil prices, which led to ____(H)___ high food prices due to a dependence of food production on petroleum, as well as using food crop products such as ethanol and biodiesel as an ____(I)____ to petroleum; and global inflation; a substantial credit crisis investment blanks as well ____(J)____ as commercial banks in various, and signs of contemporaneous economic downturns in major economics of the world, a global recession.

Which of the following words should fill in the blank (E) to make a contextually correct and meaningful sentence?

In Economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A recession is____(A)____ by rising unemployment, increase in government borrowing,____(B)____, of share and stock prices, and falling investment. All of these characteristics have effects on people. Some recessions have been anticipated by stock market declines. The real – estate market also usually ____(C)____ before a recession. During an economic decline, high ____(D)____ stocks such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and tobacco ____(E)____ to hold up better. However, when the economy starts to recover growth, stocks tend to recover faster. There is significant disagreement about how health care and utilities tend to ____(F)____ In 2008, an economic recession was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn. These ____(G)____ high oil prices, which led to ____(H)___ high food prices due to a dependence of food production on petroleum, as well as using food crop products such as ethanol and biodiesel as an ____(I)____ to petroleum; and global inflation; a substantial credit crisis investment blanks as well ____(J)____ as commercial banks in various, and signs of contemporaneous economic downturns in major economics of the world, a global recession.

Which of the following words should fill in the blank (F) to make a contextually correct and meaningful sentence?

In Economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A recession is____(A)____ by rising unemployment, increase in government borrowing,____(B)____, of share and stock prices, and falling investment. All of these characteristics have effects on people. Some recessions have been anticipated by stock market declines. The real – estate market also usually ____(C)____ before a recession. During an economic decline, high ____(D)____ stocks such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and tobacco ____(E)____ to hold up better. However, when the economy starts to recover growth, stocks tend to recover faster. There is significant disagreement about how health care and utilities tend to ____(F)____ In 2008, an economic recession was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn. These ____(G)____ high oil prices, which led to ____(H)___ high food prices due to a dependence of food production on petroleum, as well as using food crop products such as ethanol and biodiesel as an ____(I)____ to petroleum; and global inflation; a substantial credit crisis investment blanks as well ____(J)____ as commercial banks in various, and signs of contemporaneous economic downturns in major economics of the world, a global recession.

Which of the following words should fill in the blank (G) to make a contextually correct and meaningful sentence?

In Economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A recession is____(A)____ by rising unemployment, increase in government borrowing,____(B)____, of share and stock prices, and falling investment. All of these characteristics have effects on people. Some recessions have been anticipated by stock market declines. The real – estate market also usually ____(C)____ before a recession. During an economic decline, high ____(D)____ stocks such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and tobacco ____(E)____ to hold up better. However, when the economy starts to recover growth, stocks tend to recover faster. There is significant disagreement about how health care and utilities tend to ____(F)____ In 2008, an economic recession was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn. These ____(G)____ high oil prices, which led to ____(H)___ high food prices due to a dependence of food production on petroleum, as well as using food crop products such as ethanol and biodiesel as an ____(I)____ to petroleum; and global inflation; a substantial credit crisis investment blanks as well ____(J)____ as commercial banks in various, and signs of contemporaneous economic downturns in major economics of the world, a global recession.

Which of the following words should fill in the blank (H) to make a contextually correct and meaningful sentence?

In Economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A recession is____(A)____ by rising unemployment, increase in government borrowing,____(B)____, of share and stock prices, and falling investment. All of these characteristics have effects on people. Some recessions have been anticipated by stock market declines. The real – estate market also usually ____(C)____ before a recession. During an economic decline, high ____(D)____ stocks such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and tobacco ____(E)____ to hold up better. However, when the economy starts to recover growth, stocks tend to recover faster. There is significant disagreement about how health care and utilities tend to ____(F)____ In 2008, an economic recession was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn. These ____(G)____ high oil prices, which led to ____(H)___ high food prices due to a dependence of food production on petroleum, as well as using food crop products such as ethanol and biodiesel as an ____(I)____ to petroleum; and global inflation; a substantial credit crisis investment blanks as well ____(J)____ as commercial banks in various, and signs of contemporaneous economic downturns in major economics of the world, a global recession.

Which of the following words should fill in the blank (I) to make a contextually correct and meaningful sentence?

In Economics, the term recession generally describes the reduction of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for at least two quarters. A recession is____(A)____ by rising unemployment, increase in government borrowing,____(B)____, of share and stock prices, and falling investment. All of these characteristics have effects on people. Some recessions have been anticipated by stock market declines. The real – estate market also usually ____(C)____ before a recession. During an economic decline, high ____(D)____ stocks such as financial services, pharmaceuticals and tobacco ____(E)____ to hold up better. However, when the economy starts to recover growth, stocks tend to recover faster. There is significant disagreement about how health care and utilities tend to ____(F)____ In 2008, an economic recession was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn. These ____(G)____ high oil prices, which led to ____(H)___ high food prices due to a dependence of food production on petroleum, as well as using food crop products such as ethanol and biodiesel as an ____(I)____ to petroleum; and global inflation; a substantial credit crisis investment blanks as well ____(J)____ as commercial banks in various, and signs of contemporaneous economic downturns in major economics of the world, a global recession.

Which of the following words should fill in the blank (J) to make a contextually correct and meaningful sentence?