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Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out, each of which is indicated by a number. Find the suitable word from the options given against each number and fill up the blanks with appropriate words to make the paragraph meaningful. This year, the voices from Davos, Switzerland, were all (81) about the world economy. This is not new: for some time now, notwithstanding the (82) reality, leaders of major countries, along with representatives of large international organisations, have been (83) to "talk up" the economy ? both of individual countries and for the world as a whole. Ever since the Great Recession of 2008-09 put a (84) on the rapid growth experienced in the previous decade, they have been supposedly (85) the "green shoots" of economic recovery, even when these shoots (86) before they could grow into anything worthwhile. Every slight rise in the halting rate of economic expansion was (87) as the way out of the secular stagnation that global capitalism has been (88) in, only for that promise to (89) away as it turned out that insufficient demand would continue to (90) slow growth.

A)  depressed                   

B)  down 

C)       serious           

D)       upbeat

E)  assured