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1. Performance Appraisals

Performance appraisals have traditionally been considered the best way to ______ an employee's
performance, but increasingly organizations are finding them of little ______. Employees find them
Stressful and unhelpful. Importantly, they also take up a lot of time. When Deloitte analyzed their own
_______, they found managers and employees spent around 2 million hours a year on performance
reviews. A growing number of companies have decided to ________ performance reviews all together,
instead introducing more regular catch ups.

Options: monopolize, rating, value, presence, evaluate, abolish, process

2. Higher Education Shift

After centuries of inequality in UK higher education benefiting men, there has been a ________ over the
past three decades. A lower proportion of entrants to UK higher education institutions are male than ever
before and they make up less than one-half of the total. Other developed __________ a similar shift. Male
___________ is not seen only in the figures for entry but also in non-continuation (drop-out) rates and
degree performance statistics.

Options: Under achievement, phased, reversal, undergone, coincidence, deceit, recovery

3. Fascination

A fascination with the fate of those who show great early talent remained with me. Then in 1981, I
happened upon a radio documentary _________ Hephzibah, who died earlier that year. Produced and
narrated for the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s The Coming Out Show by the influential feminist
commentator and academic Eva Cox – who was, I learnt for the first time, Hephzibah’s step daughter – it
________ interviews with Hephzibah and with those who had _________ her. I heard her light, precise
voice with its slightly Germanic vowels and hint of an American _________ as she spoke about things
that were important to her, and I was drawn to her warmth, thoughtfulness and humor.

Options:

Prescribing, known, mourned, drawl, commemorating, displaced, abase, featured

4. Accounting and Finance

While accounting focuses on the day-to-day management of financial ________ and records across the
business world, finance uses this same information to __________ future growth and to analyze
expenditure in order to strategize company finances. By studying this major you get to have a better
insight on the market, with the right ________ and skills acquired you should be able then when you
graduate to advise others in making strong investments. This major will help you gain responsibility of
predicting and _________ the potential for profit and growth, assessing monetary resources, utilizing
accounting statistics and reports, and also looking externally for future funding options.

Options:

editorials, knowledge, analyzing, announce, project, using, content, reports


5. Chapters

Most chapters have a mixed exercise after the __________ work of the chapter has been completed. This
will help you __________what you have done, either when you have finished the chapter or at a later
date. All chapters ________ with some mathematical puzzles and practical investigational work. For this
work you are encouraged to _________your ideas with others.

Options: end, main, revise, share, teem, downsize, mingle, bare

6. Bio-energy

A Graphic Introduction was put together by northern artists, who have _______discussions with scientists
from the Supergen Bioenergy Hub in a ________of striking images which imagine alternative futures and
explain some of the technology _________ and how it might be put into practice.

Options: involved, distinguished, discriminated, interpreted, forsook, system, series

7. Parental Income

In England it is well known that access to university, on average, varies substantially by the levels of
parental income and that student’s from poorer families access different types of universities than those
from wealthier backgrounds. However, the question of whether graduates’ earnings vary __________
their socioeconomic backgrounds amongst graduates attending similar universities and taking the same
subject has remained poorly understood, ___________ limited by data availability. Our unique
administrative database offers substantial advantages ___________ this crucial question. The findings are
also relevant for myriad other issues that benefit from better information on _______ in graduates’
earnings, including: students’ choices of subjects and institutions; better information for schools
________ advise and guide students whilst at school; and the operation and cost of the higher education
finance system.

Options: upgrade, variation, according to, so that, in addressing, to help, thus far, in advance

9. Class Levels
Finally, this study was ____________ with students who were enrolled in lower level classes. Future
research may _________ the findings of this study with other college students in upper level classes. This
would help ___________ students' expectations, experience, and perceptions____________ constant or
changed.
Options: report, obliged, conducted, remain, re-explore, become, determine

10. Banana
Well, the banana is the first cultivated fruit. It's one of the food items that literally __________people out
of the jungle, out of their hunter-gatherer lifestyles and was there at the ________ of agriculture which is
what helped force human beings into ___________. It’s really one of the things that helped invent human
culture. It's about 7000 years of history, and the banana, from its center of ________, which is believed to
be Papua New Guinea, spread out with people who traveled in boats across the Pacific into the main land
of Asia and all the way south to Australia across Indonesia and Micronesia and eventually they moved as
far as Africa and even possibly to Ecuador all in this time and all on ___________boats and wind driven
boats.

Options: origin, communities, phase, brought, complex, hefty, paddle, dawn, keep, connections

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