READING PART 5 BLANK NEED VERB/ADVERB

Ms. Walters .................. to another branch, so your new financial advisor will be Mr. Merenda.

• transfer

• transferring

• has transferred

• transferable

Last year, the number of new university-level textbooks ............... by American publishers dropped for the second year in a row.

• created

• marked

• instructed

• sold

Traffic congestion is ............... than usual because of road construction, so it will take us at least an hour to get to the meeting.

• badly

• bad

• worst

• worse

Investors who lose faith in a company ............... sell off their stocks and invest elsewhere.

• exactly

• greatly

• approximately

• typically

CTC announced on Monday that a European media group is expected to ............... its online music store.

• buy

• buying

• bought

• has bought

According to a survey ............... by the Fielding Institute, advertising on the Internet accounted for 10% of total advertising.

• conducted

• conductor

• conducting

• conducts

From the first measurement to the last stitch, the Sagamore brothers have been ............... custom-built furniture for fifty years in their New Haven workshop.

• assigning

• calculating

• creating

• describing

In spite of the rainy weather, last evening’s holiday reception ............... attended by staff researchers and administrators.

• well

• quite

• many

• some