READING

SKILLS 
Dr. Raihan M. Sharif 
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CLUE
1. Through his ---- he managed to cheat his partners out of
their earnings.

(A) inefficiency
(B) ineptness
(C) machinations
(D) regime
(E) dealings
2. Alan waited ---- for his turn, relaxing in an easy
chair with his eyes closed.

(A) impatiently
(B) eagerly
(C) warily
(D) calmly
(E) tensely
3. The service at the restaurant was usually very
attentive, but on this one occasion the waiter seemed to
---- the diners.

(A) applaud
(B) urge
(C) ignore
(D) restrain
(E) fulfill
4. The restaurant itself was beautiful and the service
excellent, but the food was ----.

(A) outstanding
(B) morose
(C) conclusive
(D) inedible
(E) filling
5. John was so abrupt with clients that her supervisor
eventually put a letter in her file citing her ----.

(A) enthusiasm
(B) rudeness
(C) lethargy
(D) diligence
(E) patience
6. Because the speaker had a reputation for ----, the
chairperson warned him to be succinct.

(A) bravery
(B) creativity
(C) lassitude
(D) piety
(E) loquaciousness
7. 
No elected official who remains ---- can play a major role
in public life; compromise is the life-blood of politics.

(A) obdurate
(B) dogmatic
(C) pragmatic
(D) irrefutable
(E) inflexible