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TOEFL TOEFL Exam
TOEFL Test Of English as a Foreign Language(Educational Testing Service) (Page 78 )

Updated On: 30-Jan-2026
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Competitive crude oil prices, after wide ________ related to the war in Iraq, are now only slightly elevated from a year ago, and where spot markets for natural gas exist, prices exhibit little change from a year ago.

  1. gyrations
  2. peregrinations
  3. undulations
  4. vacillations

Answer(s): A



Our inability to increase imports to ________ a modest gap between North American demand and production is largely responsible for the marked rise in natural gas prices over the past year.

  1. close
  2. knit
  3. stop
  4. thin

Answer(s): A



Canada, our major source of imported natural gas, has had ________ to expand shipments to the United States, and our limited capacity to import liquefied natural gas (LNG) effectively restricts our access to the world's abundant supplies of gas.

  1. fat chance
  2. little room
  3. short shrift
  4. small space

Answer(s): B



Working gas in storage is currently at very low levels relative to its seasonal norm because of a colder than average winter and ________ inability of increased gas well drilling to significantly augment net marketed production.

  1. an acknowledging
  2. an appearing
  3. an occurring
  4. a seeming

Answer(s): D



Alan Greenspan (June 2003) states that in recent months, in response to very ________ supplies, prices of natural gas have increased sharply.

  1. bound
  2. brief
  3. tense
  4. tight

Answer(s): D



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