Utme 2019 English Question 8

The passage below has gaps numbered 1 to 10. Immediately following each gap, four options are provided. Choose the most appropriate option for each gap. The economic miracle of the so-called "Asian Tigers" was subject to much debate and analysis in the early 1990s among economists. There were basically two schools of ....1.... [A. reasoning B. ideas C. practice D. thought]. One, that the Asian Tigers’ economic miracle was a case of "miracles beyond the free market" and so, to repeat such miracles or something near it, do not leave the ....2.... [A. economy B. structure C. miracle D. analyses] to the invisible hands of the free market with its sometimes profoundly anti-social overtones. There was a place for, and indeed a great virtue in, state ....3.... [A. market B. intervention C. persuasion D. enforcement]. The other group ....4.... [A. synthesized B. analysed C. believed D. recommended] that it was not so much a miracle that was either beyond the free market or, for that matter, one induced by the equally unpredictable, even if visible, hands of politicians and policy ....5.... [A. deciders B. masters C. executors D. makers]. The Asian ....6.... [A. experience B. practice C. logic D. method] was rather one of a cultural phenomenon blending with good policies to produce a delightfully desirable spectacle of progress and ....7.... [A. purpose B. affluence C. prospect D. prosperity]. The concern of the economists was how to safely ....8.... [A. prescribe B. gauge C. stimulate D. re-orientate] and then apply the Asian prescription to replicate such man-made miracles in many other countries of the world enduring the ....9.... [A. anger B. risk C. throes D. punishment] of unrelenting and ....10.... [A. momentous B. compelling C. scorching D. aggravating] poverty.