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TOEIC tests level  14/ Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 14

Are You in Debt?

Q1 Going on a spending ....... with your credit card and no concern about how you pay back the money you borrow, is a growing habit these days.

(a)    spending burst (b) spending spree (c) spending flight (d) spending day

spree

n. binge, period of unrestrained self-indulgence (drinking, shopping, etc.); fun social activity

Q2 There is a popular demand for the system that allows credit companies to offer unlimited credit to young people to be ........

(a)    overhauled (b) overseen (c) overlooked (d) overtaken

overtake

v. catch up to; pass; surpass; come upon suddenly, attack suddenly

overhaul

v. renovate; make overall repairs; examine for defects before making repairs; overtake, catch up with

Q3 It has been ....... by a government agency that the percentage of under 25 year olds owing large sums to companies is on the increase.

(a)    distinguished (b) deciphered (c) dissolved (d) disclosed

Q4 One director of a major credit company has already been forced to ....... because of the bad publicity his company has attracted.

(a)    step over (b) step through (c) step down (d) step out

Q5 One solution that has been suggested to control credit is to ....... the regulations to make it more difficult to get credit in the first place.

(a)    step under (b) step up (c) step by (d) step across

Q6 The main problem is that a debt ....... has developed recently believing that it is cool to owe large sums of money.

(a)    cultivation (b) cult (c) cultivate (d) culture

Q7 Recent reports have ....... that being in debt is not now looked upon as a disgrace but rather as an attractive way of life.

(a)    revealed (b) restored (c) replied (d) responded

Q8 In reality it's a very long ....... to get from owing to paying off all your debts.

(a)    long hail (b) long halt (c) long haul (d) help

Q9 There are frequently ....... in the family home between parents and children about whether you should enter into credit agreements.

(a)    collisions (b) clashes (c) claims (d) crashes

collision

n. crash, colliding of two or more objects

clash

v. make a loud banging sound; bang together; strongly disagree, confront

n. sound of objects banging together; confrontation, conflict

claim

v. demand; sue; plea; assert

crash

v. smash into, collide with force; be crashed; break into pieces, fall apart; be broken into pieces; freeze up, stop working properly (Computers)

n. smash, wreck; downfall, collapse; condition in which the computer becomes stuck during an operation and must be restarted (Computers)

Q10 What concerns people most are the mounting ....... among governments that it will take at least a generation for us to be rid of excessive debt.

(a) frights (b) fearful (c) fears (d) afraid