Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the appropriate options given below:
The major central banks’ ..(1)..negligent pursuit of positive but low inflation has become a dangerous ..(2)..delusion. It is dangerous because the policies needed to achieve the objective could have unwanted side effects; and it is a delusion because there is currently no good reason to be pursuing the objective in the first place. In the 1970s, when inflation in the advanced economies rose sharply, central banks rightly ..(3)..adhere it. The lesson central bankers took from that battle was that low inflation is a necessary condition for sustained growth. But, subtly and over time, this lesson has ..(4)..morphed into a belief that low inflation is also a sufficient condition for sustained growth. That change may have been due to the benign economic conditions that accompanied the period of disinflation from the late 1980s to 2007, commonly ..(5)..suppress to as the ―Great Moderation. For central bankers, it was comforting to believe that they had reduced inflation by controlling demand, and that their policies had many beneficial side effects for the economy. After all, this was the demand-oriented ..(6).. refrain they had used to justify tight money to begin with. But then the world changed. From the late 1980s onward, low inflation was largely due to positive supply-side shocks – such as the Baby Boomer-fueled expansion of the labor force and the..(7)..hostility of many emerging countries into the global trading system. These forces boosted growth while lowering inflation. And monetary policy, far from restricting demand, was generally focused on preventing below-target inflation. As we now know, that led to a period of easy monetary conditions, which, together with financial deregulation and technological developments, ..(8)..sowed the seeds of the 2007 financial crisis and the ensuing recession. The fundamental analytical error then – as it still is today – was a failure to ..(9)..degrade between alternative sources of disinflation. The end of the Great ..(10)..indulgence should have disabused policymakers of their belief that low inflation guarantees future economic stability. If anything, the opposite has been true. Having doubled down on their inflation targets, central banks have had to rely on an unprecedented array of untested policy instruments to achieve their goals.
1. 1) breach 2) antagonization 3) vigilant 4) impulsive 5) No correction required.
2. 1) discreet 2) surefire 3) withdrawal 4) humble 5) No correction required.
3. 1) attentive 2) intensity 3) conviction 4) resisted 5) No correction required.
4. 1) authoritativeness 2) outrageousness 3) credence 4) dogmatism 5) No correction required.
5. 1) staunchness 2) referred 3) intemperance 4) assent 5) No correction required.
6. 1) narrative 2) steadiness 3) acquiesce 4) wildness 5) No correction required.
7. 1) debase 2) alienation 3) integration 4) inhibit 5) No correction required.
8. 1) inevitability 2) knuckle 3) bidding 4) belittle 5) No correction required.
9. 1) accede 2) disunity 3) forbear 4) distinguish 5) No correction required.
10. 1) prevent 2) withholding 3) schism 4) Moderation 5) No correction required.
Read the passage carefully and fill in the blanks with the appropriate options given below:
Paris – Nearly two years have passed since France’s then-foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, struck his gavel and declared: ―The Paris agreement for the climate is ..(11)..accepted. Next week, President Emmanuel Macron and the French government will host world leaders and non-state actors for the One Planet Summit. The purpose of this ..(12)..protecting is to celebrate climate gains made since 2015, and to boost political and economic support for meeting the goals and targets of the Paris agreement. The Paris climate agreement, a historic feat of diplomacy that ..(13)..adieus in a new era of international climate ..(14)..infringement, was facilitated by a number of political and social forces. One of the most ..(15)..influential of these was a group of more than 100 countries known as the ―high ..(16)..satisfaction coalition, which helped finalize the deal in the waning days of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21). This ..(17)..conforming coalition of leaders – from the richest countries to the most ..(18)..conserve Pacific island states – broke a political ..(19)..deadlock that had impeded climate progress for years, if not decades. As we reflect on that success, one thing is abundantly clear: the need for ambitious coalitions has returned. Strong global leadership on climate change scored a diplomatic victory two years ago, and today, new economic and political alliances are needed to turn those ..(20)..assingments into action.
11. 1) parting 2) humility 3) despise 4) exclude 5) No correction required.
12. 1) contentment 2) gathering 3) scorning 4) scoff 5) No correction required.
13. 1) jettison 2) repudiate 3) gathering 4) salutation 5) No correction required.
14. 1) disdain 2) discredi 3) collaboration 4) dereliction 5) No correction required.
15. 1) rebuff 2) repulse 3) valediction 4) apathy 5) No correction required.
16. 1) ambition 2) scrap 3) slough 4) chuck 5) No correction required.
17. 1) spurn 2) diverse 3) parallel 4) rebellion 5) No correction required.
18. 1) sabotage 2) dissension 3) vulnerable 4) bulwark 5) No correction required.
19. 1) mutiny 2) sentinel 3) indiscipline 4) hedge 5) No correction required.
20. 1) commitments 2) insulates 3) shelter 4) stonewall 5) No correction required.
