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 5.
investment
The sentence: 'The money left after limiting the expenses is your saving and after that you can think of your (5) _________ .'
Follow the sequence the passage builds. It has moved from budgeting, to separating income and expenses, to prioritising, to saving. The natural next step once money has been set aside is to put it to work.
Investment means committing money in the expectation of a return, so it completes the chain budget → save → invest. It also belongs to the same field of personal finance the whole passage has been using.
Why the others fail: deal, arrangement and contract all describe agreements made between parties. None of them follows logically from simply having money left over, and none belongs to the vocabulary of managing one's own savings.
The answer is investment.
Method for cloze passages: read the whole passage once before filling any blank. Later sentences frequently settle earlier choices, and the overall direction of the argument settles the last blank.
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What would come in place of 1
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