TOEIC Score Improvement Course: Part 5 Strategy🔥 No.6

To improve your TOEIC score, it is more important than anything else to earn solid points in "Part 5: Grammar"📝
Therefore, as part of this TOEIC score improvement course, I would like to focus on outputting content centered on "English Grammar" topics💚

Based on specific practice problems and their explanations, we will thoroughly cover strategies for Part 5!
Please make use of this as part of your English studies🔥

Review of the previous session🔖

Q1: Words that fit the context

Ms. Tomoko inquired about the job opening at XXX, but ＜＞, she has not received a reply.

A: above all
B: so far
C: instead
D: consequently

Before the blank, it says "Ms. Tomoko inquired about the job opening at XXX," and it is followed by "she has not received a reply," so inserting (B) so far makes the sentence meaningful📝
Answer (B): so far

Japanese translation: Ms. Tomoko inquired about the job opening at XXX, but so far she has not received a reply.

inquire about: "to inquire about"
job opening: "job opening"
receive: "to receive"
reply: "reply"
(A): above all
(C): instead
(D): consequently

Q2: Idiom & Part of Speech Question

The bonus is calculated in ＜＞ with the company policy, based on profits and personal achievement of goals.

A: accord
B: according
C: accordingly
D: accordance

Let's pay attention to the prepositions 'in' and 'with' before and after the blank!
in accordance with means "in compliance with (rules, etc.)" so (D) accordance is the correct answer👍

Japanese translation: The bonus is calculated in accordance with company policy, based on profits and personal achievement of goals.

calculate: "to calculate"
policy: "policy"
based on: "based on"
profit: "profit", goal: "goal"
personal: "personal"
achievement: "achievement"

(A): accord verb "to agree"
(B): according -ing form of a verb
(C): accordingly adverb "accordingly"

Q3: Appropriate Conjunction🍀

＜＞a new machine will arrive next week, no plans have been discussed to make space for it.

A: Although
B: If
C: When
D: After

All the options are words that function as conjunctions👀
The one that can logically connect the two contents, "a new machine will arrive next week" and "no plans have been discussed to make space for it," is the contrastive (A) Although.
Answer A: Although
(B): if "if"
(C): When "when"
(D): After "after"

arrive: "to arrive"
discuss: "to discuss"
make space: "to make space"

That is all for today's explanation!
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