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  1. For the start-up, the (i) stresses of the economic downturn
    seemed to have a silver lining. Though the persistent concern about
    attaining new clients taxed the employees’ psyches, it also taught them the
    necessity of (ii) to weather cyclical fluctuations.


Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A unmitigated D confabulation

B miserly E serendipity

C conciliatory F resourcefulness


  1. It is the (i) nature of technology that most alarms cultural
    critics. Though they find many of its features (ii) and even
    beneficial, they worry that its ubiquity can be (iii).


Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (iii)
A insidious D salutary G nourishing

B understated E tolerable H incidental

C ominous F irreproducible I alienating


  1. His inherent (i) leisure proved beneficial to his finances
    but (ii) his personal development, since he never gave
    himself time to pursue hobbies.


Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A consumption with D deleterious to

B ignorance of E fortuitous to

C aversion to F derivative of


  1. Because Kundera’s novels take place during a time of upheaval in Eastern
    Europe, critics believe that Kundera’s use of the social (i)
    in which his characters’ lives occur implies political commentary.
    However, the novelist has been clear that his works are meant to
    (ii) all elements of human living, not just the political.


Blank (i) Blank (ii)
A confluence D reflect

B milieu E vindicate

C isolation F derogate

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