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Directions (Q 39–43): In the passage (3F), each number covers two blanks. Choose the pair of words that fills both blanks correctly.
Financial literacy is often (39) ________ as the ability to define terms such as compound interest or inflation. Such knowledge is useful, but it is (39) ________ enough to protect a household. A family may understand interest perfectly and still (40) ________ a loan it cannot afford, because the decision is (40) ________ by pressure, hope or a persuasive agent rather than by arithmetic.
Real literacy therefore includes habits as well as facts: the habit of (41) ________ every offer that promises unusually high returns, and of (41) ________ a second opinion before signing. Banks can help by explaining products in plain language and by (42) ________ customers about common frauds (42) ________ than burying the warnings in small print. Schools, too, have a role: a student who learns to keep a simple budget at sixteen is less likely to be (43) ________ by easy credit at twenty-five, and more likely to (43) ________ savings for the future.
Correct Answer: A [described, rarely]
Explanation:
“described … rarely” – passive ‘is often described as’; ‘useful, but … rarely enough’ needs a limiting word after ‘but’.
Blanks (40)
Correct Answer: E [take, driven]
Explanation:
“take … driven” – ‘may … still’ + base verb of a harmful act (take); passive ‘is driven by’.
Blanks (41)
Correct Answer: B [questioning, seeking]
Explanation:
“questioning … seeking” – ‘the habit of’ + -ing; a careful habit = questioning offers and seeking advice.
Blanks (42)
Correct Answer: D [warning, rather]
Explanation:
“warning … rather” – ‘by’ + -ing; ‘rather than burying’ = instead of.
Blanks (43)
Correct Answer: C [tempted, build]
Explanation:
“tempted … build” – ‘be tempted by easy credit’ (passive); ‘more likely to build savings’.
Directions (Q 44–47): Choose the word that best fills each numbered blank in the passage (3G).
Good public writing is rarer than it should be. Official notices are often so (44) ________ that the one instruction a reader needs is buried under paragraphs of repetition. Yet brevity alone is not a (45) ________: a notice that is short but vague fails just as badly. The best notices are (46) ________: each sentence can be read in only one way. Writing like this takes effort, but the effort is (47) ________ many times over when thousands of readers understand the notice at first reading.
Correct Answer: E [verbose]
Explanation:
“verbose” – ‘buried under paragraphs of repetition’ = too many words; the other four all mean short.
Blank (45)
Correct Answer: A [virtue]
Explanation:
“virtue” – ‘a notice that is short but vague fails’ shows that shortness by itself is not a merit.
Blank (46)
Correct Answer: D [unambiguous]
Explanation:
“unambiguous” – ‘each sentence can be read in only one way’ defines unambiguous.
Blank (47)
