TOEIC Score Improvement Course: Part 5 Strategy🔥 No. 10

To improve your TOEIC score, it is most important to
earn points quickly and accurately in "Part 5: Grammar"📝 Therefore, as part of this TOEIC score improvement course, I would like to focus on outputting content centered around "English grammar" topics 💚

We will thoroughly cover Part 5 strategies based on specific practice problems and their explanations!
Please use this as part of your English studies 🔥

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Q1: Choosing the appropriate -ing verb form

○○ Co, Ltd. made several new additions to its design team with the aim of ＜ ＞ its workforce.

A: transmitting
B: contrasting
C: participating
D: diversifying

All the options are -ing verb forms 👀
Since the object "its workforce" follows the blank,
we know that a transitive verb should go in the blank.
With "diversifying its workforce",

it makes sense as "to diversify the workforce," so

(D) is the correct answer.

addition: "new staff members"
with the aim of: "with the goal of"
workforce: "total number of employees"
A: transmitting
-ing form of the verb "transmit"
B: contrasting
-ing form of the verb "contrast"
C: participating
-ing form of the verb "participate"
D: diversifying
-ing form of the verb "diversify"

<Japanese Translation>
○○ Co, Ltd. made several additions to its design team with the aim of
diversifying
its workforce.

Q2: Appropriate adjective

Apartments in the XXX area generally sell for less than ＜ ＞ spaces in other parts of the city.

A: comparable
B: simultaneous
C: inquisitive
D: complementary

Since all options are adjectives, we can recognize this as a problem of choosing the right one to modify the noun "spaces" immediately following the blank.
The subject is "Apartments in the XXX area," and there is a comparative expression "less than," so we think about what kind of places in other parts of the city are being compared to make the apartments in the XXX area cheaper 👀
Here, if we choose option A,

"comparable spaces in other parts of the city"
makes sense as "similar places in other parts of the city," so

(A) is the correct answer


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generally: "in general"
less than: "less than"
A: comparableequivalentB: simultaneous

at the same time
C: inquisitive
curiousD: complementary
supplementary

<Japanese Translation>
Apartments in the XXX area are generally sold for less than similar spaces in other parts of the city.

Q3: Appropriate adverb

Although Mr. Black’s house is near XYZ, the property is technically located in the neighboring town of ABC.

A: dominantly
B: meticulously
C: reluctantly
D: technically

All options are adverbs.
Since the sentence makes sense even without the blank, we identify this as a problem of choosing a word suitable for the surrounding context.
Here, if we insert (D) "technically",
the part after the comma becomes, "the property is technically located in the neighboring town of ABC"

which means "strictly speaking, the property is located in the neighboring town of ABC," and it fits the content of the clause introduced by the contrastive conjunction "Although," so

(D) is the correct answer

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property: "real estate"be located in: "to be situated in"neighboring: "adjacent"A: dominantlydominantly

B: meticulously
with great attention to detail
C: reluctantly
unwillingly

D: technically

strictly speaking

<Japanese Translation>
Although Mr. Black's house is near XYZ,
strictly speaking,the property is located in the neighboring town of ABC.

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