Choose the one word or phrase that best completes the sentence and fill in the appropriate answer above.
1-
Mahesh Kini of HSBC says that a stable government is committed to Singapore's multi-......... growth by focusing on various sectors.
A -
flanged
B -
hinged
C -
pronged
D -
ranged
2-
Singapore's 2006 budget outlines many ......... for businesses operating in Singapore in the financial and related sectors.
A -
coercives
B -
correctives
C -
incentives
D -
invectives
3-
In the ......... is the Integrated Resorts project, a large entertainment complex featuring casinos, amusement parks, hotels, and convention centres, which is due to open in 2010.
A -
ballpark
B -
blueprint
C -
grapevine
D -
pipeline
4-
Such large government-backed initiatives and the drive to create a new tourism hub in Singapore ......... well for the large tourism industry, which saw nine million tourists arrive on Singapore's shores in the past year.
A -
bide
B -
bode
C -
hied
D -
hold
5-
The MAS, in a step to liberalise commercial banking in Singapore, has provided qualifying full bank status to some foreign banks to provide a full ......... of financial services to individuals and corporates and issued wholesale bank status to a number of foreign banks to serve commercial customers.
A -
hand
B -
house
C -
staff
D -
suite
6-
Singapore is also seeing a trend to establish global treasury centres; Singapore's infrastructure, political stability and favourable time zone, located centrally in the Asia-Pacific region, have greatly benefited multinational corporations in supporting a global cash ..........
A -
deployment
B -
leverage
C -
position
D -
strategy
7-
Another growing trend is for companies to ......... their supply chain and cash management to attain greater efficiencies.
A -
harmonize
B -
hygienize
C -
sanitize
D -
synchronize
8-
Singapore's finance industry has fully ......... Internet technology and is capitalising on this phenomenon to the fullest extent as a relatively inexpensive distribution and delivery medium to grow market share and improve profitability.
A -
embalmed
B -
embraced
C -
ensconced
D -
entailed
9-
Besides online banking services, these banks as well as other companies that act as intermediaries and ........., have developed business-to-business, business-to-consumers, and even person-to-person transaction service initiatives.
A -
aggregators
B -
attenuators
C -
talliers
D -
terminators
10-
Singapore has one of the highest Internet ......... rates worldwide and all major banks provide Internet banking platforms and many also provide host-to-host capabilities to link up to companies' back-office operations for file transfers.
