# Montego Bay high homes reading fill blanks 108
Read the following paragraph and choose the correct option to fill the gaps.
1.) Sample
listen | empathy | determiner | improve | employed | positive | increased |
High emotional intelligence can help a manager …………………………………… workplace communication skills, employee motivation, and organizational effectiveness. If a manager has high ………………………………………, a key component of emotional intelligence, he or she will be able to ……………………………. to the concerns of employees and will be more understanding of their needs, wants and concerns. This will most likely translate into …………………………………… motivation and satisfaction of employees and ultimately will have a ……………………………….. effect on the effectiveness of the business.
2.) Sample
peaceful | polluted | cosmopolitan | bustling | facilities | crowded | hospital | sandy |
Montego Bay is the second largest city in Jamaica by area and the third by population. It is a lively and …………………………………. beach resort and attracts a lot of tourists from many different countries with its ………………………. beaches and ………………………………… relaxing atmosphere. Many Americans and Europeans, as well as, Jamaicans, have summer homes in Montego Bay, so it is a …………………………………….. city and becomes more …………………………………… during the holiday seasons. It is most famous for Doctor’s Cave beach, which has clear, turquoise waters.
3.) Sample
exciting | costly | worse | marvelous | unless | though | bad |
Many of us believe that science is something modern ……………………………… the truth is that man has been using science for a very long time. However, it has had a greater effect on human lives in the last 25 or 30 years than in the hundreds of years since the invention of the plough. The …………………………………… gifts of science have modern life …………………….. and comfortable. But science has at the same time created new problems. One of these which may become …………………………………. in the years to come, is that of “jet-lag”.
4.) Sample
pushing | effective | circumvents | profits | stakes | encourages |
The Ordinance to raise the foreign capital cap in insurance from 26% to 49% is not the best way to do it, as it …………………………………… the parliament process. Presumably, however, US President Barack Obama’s visit explains the government’s tearing hurry. New Delhi wants to show that it is resolute in …………………………………. reform. However, it would be naive to expect that foreign investors will rush to raise their ……………………………………….. in India joint ventures and infuse more funds in the sector that needs lots of capital to grow. Investors want certainty in the law. Foreign partners will wait and watch to see how things pan out as an Ordinance is a stopgap arrangement. Eventually, Parliament must approve the law.
5.) Sample
outstanding | proportionate | grip | mood | marginal | sluggish | reactivity |
The last decade has been ………………………………… for management education and development. When the economies of most western countries were faltering in the early 1980s there were ……………………………. cuts in both in corporate training and in higher education. During the boom years of the mid-1980s, there was some …………………………….. in both areas. In the early 1990s, industrialized countries were in the …………………………………… of another service recession and a light retrenchment was to be reasonably expected throughout the training world.
6.) Sample
fact | reality | greatly | may | flaunt | hardly | can | show |
Many parents greet their children’s teenage years with needless dread. While teens ……………………………………. assault us with heavy metal music, ……………………………………. outlandish clothes and spend all their time with friends, such behavior always adds up to full-scale revolt teenage rebellion according to psychologist Laurence Steinberg, has been …………………………. exaggerated. Sociologist Sanford Dornbusch agrees. “The idea teenagers inevitably rebel is a …………………………………………… that has the potential for a great family ruin”, says Dornbusch.
7.) Sample
sorry | forsee | choices | pleasant | direction | both | trail | fork |
The poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is about the …………………………….. that one makes in life. It tells about a man who comes to a …………………………….. in the road he is traveling upon. He feels ………………………….. that he cannot travel ………………………………….. paths as he must choose one. Frost uses this fork in the road to represent a point in the man’s life where he has to choose the ……………………………. he wishes to take in life.
8.) Sample
decisions | enhance | affection | different | discover | theorized | alternative |
Animals have played a major role in human’s lives throughout history. Today, scientific research is trying to …………………………….. the positive aspects of living with companion animals. Animals have been used as an ………………………………… form of treatment for many years. More recently it has been discovered that owning a pet can help lower people’s blood pressure, ……………………………………. the chances of living after a heart attack, keep people more active and provide more satisfaction with life. It is …………………………… that happens because pets help people become more social, provide a means to give and receive ………………………………, and help connect us with the natural world.
9.) Sample
control | maligned | express | damaged | scared | real | exaggerative | worried | risk |
Most of us are ……………………………… of open conflict and avoid it if we can. And there is a ………………………………. to expressing and working through conflict. If the working involves harsh words and name-calling people fell deeply hurt and relationships can be ……………………………… Some group members may be afraid that if they really ………………………… their anger, they may go out of control and become violent, or they may do this. These fears can be very ………………………………… and based on experience.
10.) Sample
exceed | convinced | astonished | records | grew | impact | accelerated | tracks | rise |
Mass migration has produced a huge world wide economy of its own which has …………………………….. so fast during the past few years that the figures have ……………………….. experts. Last year remittances sent home by migrants were expected to …………………………………. $232 billion according to the World Bank which ………………………………… these figures vital through the flow of remittances is to alleviate the plight of the migrant’s family it can’t on its own lift entire nation out of poverty. Those who study the ……………………………. of remittances argue that the money allows poor countries to put off basic decisions of economic management like reforming their taxt collection
Answers:
- improve, empathy, listen, increased, positive
- bustling, sandy, peaceful, cosmopolitan, crowded
- though, marvelous, exciting, worse
- circumvents, pushing, stakes
- outstanding, marginal, reactivity, grip
- may, flaunt, hardly, reality.
- choices, fork, sorry, both, direction
- discover, alternative, enhance, theorized, affection
- scared, risk, maligned, express, real
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