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34. Even though nine million new jobs have been created in the last four years, 6% of the population remains ____.

38. The mayor opposes the plan for the local schools, but since he ____ the authority to do anything about it, his opinion is not really important.

(1) unemployed (2) unknown (3) at work (4) absent

(1) reserves (2) lacks (3) has (4) ignores

35. Many think that politicians should not display ____, but rather be more flexible.

39. After ten years of solitude it was a relief to find out that someone else ____ the island as well.

(1) charisma (2) rigidity (3) muscles (4) interests

(1) emerged from (2) lived

(3) inhabited (4) reserves

36. A near-total ____ of rainfall for the past few months has produced drought conditions in the American Midwest.

40. It was clear that the disobedient soldier had ____ a direct order.

(1) defied (2) declined (3) abandoned (4) recalled

(1) lack (2) deficit (3) surplus (4) poverty

41. After several abortive attempts to send the missile into space, the spacecraft was finally launched ____.

37. Some new medical technology is so prohibitively ____ that no one can afford to use it.

(1) unsuccessfully (2) immediately (3) prematurely (4) successfully

(1) effective (2) expensive (3) affluent (4) excessive

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