The word “critical” in the sentence “This is a critical period as any loss of propulsion, or steering, can lead to collision, grounding, or other damage to the ship” can be best replaced by ().
The sentence “It caught the mood of a country that was busy burying its legacy of military rule and hyperinflation, while looking for a new role on the world stage.” in para. 5 can be demonstrated by the following examples EXCEPT ______.
We may learn from the sentence “But the glamour of the “First World” pledge appealed to middle-class consumers with money to burn” in para. 4 that ______.
Let's move from the general to the specific.This sentence means let’s talk about some particular and about some part, but not about the whole.
The expression “flummoxed by” in the sentence “Politicians, obsessed with inputs and outputs, targets and controls, are flummoxed by immeasurable concepts such as the value people place on spending time with their families.”(para.2) can best be replaced by ______.
In the sentence: “society owed it to the criminal to put into operation a punishment equal to the crime he had committed” the underlined part can be interpreted as: society .
In context, what is the best version of the underlined portion of sentence 10 (reproduced below)?
For instance, in some schools they paid kids to read books one summer.
Grease the roller bearings with HPgun In the sentence “HP” means ().
Which of the following is the best version of sentence 9 (reproduced below)?
But what is surprising is that incentives don’t always work in the way like they’re supposed to.
The first sentence of the sixth paragraph implies that ______.