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According to the text CB1A2-I, judge the following item.
The word “leveraged”, in the last sentence of the text, can be
correctly understood as took advantage of.
Responsible state fiscal policy requires more than just balancing the current year’s budget. It must also include ensuring that the budget is on a sustainable path. Otherwise, policymakers cannot have the lasting impact they hope for. This risk is especially high in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Record budget surpluses, driven largely by federal pandemic aid, empowered states to adopt historically large tax cuts and spending increases from 2021 to 2023.
State leaders must be able to assess whether their decisions will be affordable over the long term or will jeopardize their ability to solve state problems or even sustain programs and services in the future. Unfortunately, the nature of state budget processes discourages such long-term thinking. State policymakers devote much of their time to developing, enacting, and implementing annual or biennial budgets, a prime opportunity to achieve immediate policy goals.
One key strategy for changing this short-term focus is for states to use long-term budget assessments and budget stress tests to regularly measure risks, anticipate potential shortfalls, and identify ways to address impending challenges. Long-term budget assessments project revenue and spending several years into the future, and stress tests estimate the size of temporary budget shortfalls that would result from recessions or other economic events and gauge whether states are prepared for these events.
Internet: <https://www.pewtrusts.org> (adapted).
Considering the ideas conveyed in the previous text, as well as its linguistic aspects, judge the following item.
In the first sentence of the second paragraph, the word
“jeopardize” is being used with a similar meaning as the one
of enhance.
Responsible state fiscal policy requires more than just balancing the current year’s budget. It must also include ensuring that the budget is on a sustainable path. Otherwise, policymakers cannot have the lasting impact they hope for. This risk is especially high in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Record budget surpluses, driven largely by federal pandemic aid, empowered states to adopt historically large tax cuts and spending increases from 2021 to 2023.
State leaders must be able to assess whether their decisions will be affordable over the long term or will jeopardize their ability to solve state problems or even sustain programs and services in the future. Unfortunately, the nature of state budget processes discourages such long-term thinking. State policymakers devote much of their time to developing, enacting, and implementing annual or biennial budgets, a prime opportunity to achieve immediate policy goals.
One key strategy for changing this short-term focus is for states to use long-term budget assessments and budget stress tests to regularly measure risks, anticipate potential shortfalls, and identify ways to address impending challenges. Long-term budget assessments project revenue and spending several years into the future, and stress tests estimate the size of temporary budget shortfalls that would result from recessions or other economic events and gauge whether states are prepared for these events.
Internet: <https://www.pewtrusts.org> (adapted).
Considering the ideas conveyed in the previous text, as well as its linguistic aspects, judge the following item.
The word “gauge”, in the last sentence of the text, has a
similar meaning as the one of estimate.
“Consider the week starting with Monday. What are the positions of Thursday and Sunday regarding their ordinal numbers respectively?”
Choose the correct option:
The word “better” is
A bicycle is ________ (slow) a motorbike.
Sarah’s presentation was ________ (interesting) John’s presentation.
A yacht is ________ (luxurious) a sailboat.
( )Written English is more complex grammatically than spoken English, with longer and more complex sentences, fewer contractions, and more subordinate clauses.
( ) Spoken English is more likely to be face-to-face communication, while written English is more likely to be communication through the written word.
( ) Spoken English is more fixed and stable than written English, which is more fleeting.
( ) Spoken English is usually more organized and carefully formulated than written English.
( ) Written English is typically more structured and forms a monologue rather than a dialogue, while spoken English is more likely to be a dialogue.
( ) Written English communicates across time and space for as long as the medium exists and the language is understood. Spoken English is more immediate.
( ) Spoken English normally uses a generally acceptable standard variety of the language, whereas written English may sometimes be in a regional or other limited-context dialect.
( ) In Spoken English, the content is presented much more densely. In written English, the information is “diluted” and conveyed through many more words: there are a lot of repetitions, glosses, “fillers”, producing a text is noticeably longer and with more redundant passages.
Analyse the sentences to indicate the ones with inconsistencies.
a. I can not agree to you in this situation.
b. Adriane had been marrried to Phil for so long when he died.
c. We’re just at the time to catch the train to Liverpool.
d. Sophia invests her money in the stock market.
e. Have you ever been to Singapore, Leonard?
f. Although he is a senior citizen, he can run very fast.
g. She is not only overweight but also lazy.
h. Megan apologized to Hugh for being so rude.
i. Our neighbor was charged with assault and battery.
j. Bela is so charming and beautiful as her sister but she is not a model.
l. Since he was deeply furious I said nothing.
m. Stop peering at my e-mails, that’s not your business!
As regards spelling in English, fill in the gaps in the sentences below by choosing the correct spelling between the options in parenthesis.
I. Lucy ________ (fetchs / fetches) Ana from school on Mondays.
Il. This software counts the number of ________ (occurrences / occurences / ocurrences) of certain words in the text.
III. Do you want your ______ (receipt / reciept)?
IV. According to specialists, a huge percentage of the population is ________ (iliterated / illiterate / iliterate).
In the order presented, the gaps are correctly and respectively filled by:
Choose the correct idiom to complete the sentence: "He's always trying to find shortcuts and take the _____ way out of things."
Read the excerpt to answer questions 26 to 28.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
― Charles Dickens
Which of the following elements is NOT part of the contrasting pairs mentioned in the quote?
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