Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the option that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 1 to 5.
Among the many paradoxes surrounding money, one deserves particular attention: the wealth that truly counts is precisely the wealth you cannot observe. When a sleek Lamborghini glides past, it is normal (1)_______. Closer inspection often tells a different story. A large number of those who drive luxury vehicles are, in fact, only modest earners (2)_______ to the privilege of being seen in such a car. It is uncertain to say whether someone driving a car worth one hundred thousand pounds is affluent. Yet the certain thing is that they have one hundred thousand pounds less than they did before they got the car, or one hundred thousand pounds more in debt. (3)_______.
We tend to judge wealth by what we see as visible details are the only evidence we have access to. Nobody walks around displaying a printout of their savings, (4)_______ – handbags, holiday villas, posts on social networks – to decide who is prospering. Contemporary marketing has fed this habit, packaging the illusion of success as a saleable product. (5)_______. It hides in the upgrade declined, the jewellery left in the display case, the watch never bought, the wardrobe never expanded and the business-class seat politely waved away.
In short, wealth is whatever money has not yet been swapped for tangible goods. That is why distinguishing wealthy from rich deserves careful thought; mistaking one for the other has quietly ruined many a budget.
(Adapted from Psychology of Money)
Question 1.
A. a good conclusion about the wheel behind which the person must sit
B. a good conclusion about whoever sits behind the wheel must be
C. for concluding that the person must be doing well behind the wheel
D. to conclude that whoever sits behind the wheel must be doing well
Question 2.
A. who are committed to sharing their monthly pay disproportionately
B. whose monthly pay is disproportionately committed to sharing
C. who have committed a disproportionate share of their monthly pay
D. a disproportionate share of whose monthly pay is committed
Question 3.
A. Beyond your knowledge, that is nothing
B. Beyond that, you know nothing at all
C. You know that it is beyond nothing at all
D. Beyond that, nothing is unknown to you
Question 4.
A. so we instead rely on their outward appearances
B. yet they appear reliable on the outside instead
C. instead of their reliable outward appearances
D. instead they rely on the appearances on the outside
Question 5.
A. Authentic advertisements are, therefore, the refusal of real wealth itself
B. However, the reality is that authentic wealth refuses to advertise itself
C. Indeed, wealth in reality is advertised as the refusal of authenticity itself
D. Real wealth itself, in reality, is advertised to refuse to be authentic
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