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Question:

Multiple choice question

Expansion comes from the word expand which means to get bigger.

For example:

Balloons expand as you fill them with air.

My research study is not completely new. It is an expansion of a study that I did last year.


	getting bigger
	making larger
	growing in size
	moving around

Which answers are closest in meaning to expansion? Choose the 3 correct answers.

Response:

	getting bigger
	making larger
	moving around
	growing in size

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Multiple choice question

The examples below illustrate the meaning of expansion.


	read more books
	watch a comedy series on TV
	watch the news on TV
	search for information on the internet

Which answers are examples of things you can do to expand your general knowledge? Choose the 3 correct answers.

Response:

	search for information on the internet
	read more books
	watch the news on TV
	watch a comedy series on TV

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Multiple choice question


	developed in additional directions.
	became larger.
	increased sales.
	reduced the number of products it sells.

Which answers best complete the sentence? Choose the 3 correct answers.

If a new policy helped a company to expand, then the company...

Response:

	reduced the number of products it sells.
	developed in additional directions.
	increased sales.
	became larger.

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Multiple choice question

Political scientists researched the effects of democracy on a small country. These researchers discovered that people in small villages found the change to a democratic system very difficult in comparison to people in who live in cities.

How could these researchers expand their study in order to claim that their findings are true also in other countries?


	increasing the size of the sample in the country where they did their first study.
	studying attitudes in villages and cities in other small countries which have also become democratic societies.

Which answers below best complete this sentence? Choose the ONE correct answer.

The researchers could expand the scope of their research by...

Response:

	studying attitudes in villages and cities in other small countries which have also become democratic societies.
	increasing the size of the sample in the country where they did their first study.
	Feedback: If the researchers examine more places in the first country they studied, then they are still not expanding the scope of their study. This will still not enable the researchers to generalize their findings to other countries.