In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. Budgeting helps us save. Saving can be done by (1) _________ income and expenses. If your expenses (2) _________ your income, it means you are unable to prioritise your expenses. First, it is important to (3) _________ your expenses according to the priority. This will definitely help you to (4) _________ where most of your expenses are done. The money left after limiting the expenses is your saving and after that you can think of your (5) _________ .
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.
exceed
The sentence: 'If your expenses (2) _________ your income, it means you are unable to prioritise your expenses.'
What the blank needs. The clause describes the situation that signals poor prioritising, and the second half tells us it is a problem. Spending more than one earns is precisely that problem, so the verb must express one amount going beyond another.
Exceed means to go beyond a limit or a quantity. 'Expenses exceed income' is the standard way of stating exactly this.
Why the others fail:
Recede means to move back or withdraw. If expenses receded below income you would be saving successfully — the opposite of the problem described.
Impede means to obstruct or hinder. Expenses cannot obstruct income in any literal sense, and the sentence is about quantity, not interference.
Follow means to come after, which would describe order in time rather than size.
The answer is exceed.
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