The world economy is in recession-the deepest and the most widespread _____(1)_____ the 1930’s. There are ____(2)_______ of ______(3)________ in the industrial countries, but most serious economic ______(4)_______ anticipate that rates of growth and levels of economic activity will remain low. In all that has been written about world _____(5)_______ the ________(6)_________ have been overwhelmingly and narrowly economic. Few have ______(7)________ the human consequences in more than a superficial manner. Not a single international study has ______(8)______ the recession’s ______(9)________ on the most vulnerable half of the world’s population-the children. The need for bringing out clearly the ______(10)_______ between world economic conditions and child welfare had thus become even more urgent in the last few years.

1.
a) for
b) since
c) by
d) before

2.
a) risks
b) glimmers
c) studies
d) tips

3.
a) development
b) downfall
c) recovery
d) slackness

4.
a) analysts
b) journalists
c) surveys
d) findings

5.
a) development
b) economy
c) wars
d) recession

6.
a) emphasis
b) aims
c) glimpses
d) suppositions

7.
a) delved
b) taught
c) propagated
d) investigated

8.
a) understood
b) analysed
c) highlighted
d) prepared

9.
a) analysis
b) undercurrents
c) impact
d) overtures

10.
a) linkage
b) fallouts
c) dependence
d) contrasts