Listening: Social Science

To help support the website, a fund raising effort online ............. a goal of $10,000

• diverted

• incorporated

• targeted

• spurred

In tests of an experimental medicine, ................ in the control group were given water instead.

• subjects

• instruments

• objects

• experimenters

Small problems are often the ............. of much bigger problems, unless you address them promptly.

• byproducts

• substances

• precursors

• components

With this illness, about a week passes between infection and the ........... of symptoms

• onset

• outlook

• obsession

• impression

A very large balance of trade .......... is causing great economic problems for the country

• surplus

• deficit

• drawback

• diversity

The advance of the army caused ......... among the enemy soldiers, who turned and fled.

• assurance

• havoc

• debris

• segment

This calculator allows you to find the .............. values, in metric units, of English measurements.

• initial

• potential

• secondary

• equivalent

Instead of unit and cooperation, the Celtic peoples were known for .......... and frequent fighting.

• tranquility

• discord

• techniques

• consensus

The new road is meant to .......... access to the downtown area from the expressway.

• estimate

• facilitate

• speculate

• exceed

In the absence of news, we can only ........... about what happened to the lost ship

• estimate

• facilitate

• speculate

• exceed