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B In the text below some words are missing. Choose the correct word to fill each blank from the box
below. There are more words than you need to complete the exercise.
Very intelligent people often make the (1)
in the same way as theirs do. Economists, for example, create mathematically-based models on the
of assuming that other people's minds work
(2)......
that people act rationally as far as their own economic (3)
concerned. You don't have to look much further than family and friends to see how off the
(4)........
this idea is. The problem with a lot of such scientifically-based theories is that they
are not friendly to facts that don't (5)
...... are
the case.
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C In the text below some words are missing. Choose the correct word to fill each blank from the box
below. There are more words than you need to complete the exercise.
With today's incredible (1)
be getting left behind or (2)
within (3)
of technological change a lot of age-old human skills may
out. It's not just that if you buy a laptop today it's obsolete
than a year and the rest of the world has moved on; it's more that, as workers
get more expensive and equipment gets cheaper, companies are spending more on machines rather than
people. Fewer people, therefore, are being (4)
in necessary skills.
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