Events & Promotions
| Last visit was: 02 Sep 2026, 11:58 |
It is currently 02 Sep 2026, 11:58 |
|
|
GMAT Club Daily Prep
Thank you for using the timer - this advanced tool can estimate your performance and suggest more practice questions. We have subscribed you to Daily Prep Questions via email.
Customized
for You
Track
Your Progress
Practice
Pays
Not interested in getting valuable practice questions and articles delivered to your email? No problem, unsubscribe here.
Sep 0712:01 AM PDT
-11:59 PM PDT
On the 7th, GMAT Club Tests will be Free! Including all the Quizzes, Questions, and Tests. 12 AM - 11:59 PM PDT- Sep 09
07:00 AM PDT
-10:00 AM PDT
Meet AdComs and explore top Master’s programs - MiM, MiF, MSc, MSBA and more. - Application Fee Waivers - Free 1-Week of GMAT Club Tests: - Master's Application Toolkit - Grand Prize Giveaway
23 Oct 2024, 03:16
Kudos
Bookmarks
Be sure to select an answer first to save it in the Error Log before revealing the correct answer (OA)!
Difficulty:
65%
(hard)
Question Stats:
14% (00:56) correct
85% (01:00) wrong based on 14 sessions
History
Date
Time
Result
Not Attempted Yet
Bureaucrats tend to (i)_________. So it is surprising that the European Commission is proposing to hand back some of its antitrust powers to national governments. Such a willingness to (ii)__________ power is quite (iii)__________. Perhaps the commission, so ofen a byword for meddling, bungling, and even corruption, is starting to put its house in order following the forced resignation of the previous lot of commissioners last year.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
Blank (i)
| A. value complex procedures |
| B. guard their authority jealously |
| C. shirk many of their responsibilities |
Blank (ii)
| D. devolve |
| E. misuse |
| F. appropriate |
Blank (iii)
| G. troubling |
| H. encouraging |
| I. predictable |
23 Apr 2025, 11:46
Kudos
Bookmarks
OE
The second sentence states that the European Commission’s current actions are surprising, so they must run counter to the general tendency of bureaucrats described in Blank (i). Since the commission is considering giving up powers it currently possesses, “guard their authority jealously” expresses the opposite of this action, so it is the correct choice. The other two options could potentially describe the process of delegating powers back to national governments; therefore the commission’s actions would not be described as surprising in the context of either of those bureaucratic tendencies. Blank (ii) calls for a word that paraphrases the commission’s proposal; since “devolve” is a synonym for delegate, it is the correct choice. “Appropriate” expresses the opposite, while “misuse” suggests a negative judgment about the commission’s actions belied by the author’s hope that they mark a positive turn. Blank (iii) calls for an adjective describing the commission’s actions. Since the author is hopeful that this latest proposal marks a new direction for a commission whose history is described in negative terms, the correct choice for Blank (iii) is “encouraging.” “Predictable” does not ft because the proposal is described as potentially marking a break in the commission’s former bad practices, and “troubling” does not work because that change is described as a positive rather than a negative one.
Thus the correct answer is guard their authority jealously (Choice B), devolve (Choice D), and encouraging (Choice H).
The second sentence states that the European Commission’s current actions are surprising, so they must run counter to the general tendency of bureaucrats described in Blank (i). Since the commission is considering giving up powers it currently possesses, “guard their authority jealously” expresses the opposite of this action, so it is the correct choice. The other two options could potentially describe the process of delegating powers back to national governments; therefore the commission’s actions would not be described as surprising in the context of either of those bureaucratic tendencies. Blank (ii) calls for a word that paraphrases the commission’s proposal; since “devolve” is a synonym for delegate, it is the correct choice. “Appropriate” expresses the opposite, while “misuse” suggests a negative judgment about the commission’s actions belied by the author’s hope that they mark a positive turn. Blank (iii) calls for an adjective describing the commission’s actions. Since the author is hopeful that this latest proposal marks a new direction for a commission whose history is described in negative terms, the correct choice for Blank (iii) is “encouraging.” “Predictable” does not ft because the proposal is described as potentially marking a break in the commission’s former bad practices, and “troubling” does not work because that change is described as a positive rather than a negative one.
Thus the correct answer is guard their authority jealously (Choice B), devolve (Choice D), and encouraging (Choice H).
