You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank before the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write down the corresponding letter for each item in the blanks. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. A ) specialize B ) vacation C ) accumulate D ) store E ) earning F ) diverse G ) various H ) confined I ) indispensableJ ) consequence K ) conclusion L ) denial M ) contradiction N ) ambition O ) schedule I finished my two-year associate degree last year. It might surprise you that this year my salary is twice the national average for four-year institution graduates. I think this is the _ 26 _ for many of them studying useless subjects. A lot of university students are wasting their time learning about music, history, and literature while I'm _ 27 _a living. Some of my friends have argued that a _ 28 _ education is essential. They say that it will allow them to develop a philosophy for life that will be _ 29 _ when they graduate from a university. I think they are in _ 30 _ of what life is really about--making money. I have real _ 31 _ and want to get ahead. I don't want to be _ 32 _ by school while trying to attain a four-year degree. I figure that I can _ 33 _ enough wealth over the next twenty years to retire early. I'll have plenty of time to develop my life's philosophy when my friends are 40 and working a miserable _ 34 _ for some corporation they hate. I will be sitting on a beach somewhere,enjoying the life and collecting all the wisdom I need. If I could give some advice to kids who are graduating from high school, it would be to _ 35 _ in something and then get to work. All that other stuff can take care of itself after you are prosperous.

Directions : In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank before the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write down the corresponding letter for each item in the blanks. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. 

A ) specialize  B ) vacation  C ) accumulate 

D ) store  E ) earning   F ) diverse 

G ) various  H ) confined  I ) indispensable

J ) consequence  K ) conclusion   L ) denial 

M ) contradiction   N ) ambition   O ) schedule   

I finished my two-year associate degree last year. It might surprise you that this year my salary is twice the national average for four-year institution graduates. I think this is the _ 26 _ for many of them studying useless subjects. A lot of university students are wasting their time learning about music, history, and literature while I'm _ 27 _a living. Some of my friends have argued that a _ 28 _ education is essential. They say that it will allow them to develop a philosophy for life that will be _ 29 _ when they graduate from a university. I think they are in _ 30 _ of what life is really about--making money. I have real _ 31 _ and want to get ahead. I don't want to be _ 32 _ by school while trying to attain a four-year degree. I figure that I can _ 33 _ enough wealth over the next twenty years to retire early. I'll have plenty of time to develop my life's philosophy when my friends are 40 and working a miserable _ 34 _ for some corporation they hate. I will be sitting on a beach somewhere,enjoying the life and collecting all the wisdom I need. If I could give some advice to kids who are graduating from high school, it would be to _ 35 _ in something and then get to work. All that other stuff can take care of itself after you are prosperous.