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Directions: In this part, there is a passage with ten blanks. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C, and D. Choose the best answer for each blank.

     Ironically, a study finds that we’re awful gift-givers precisely because we spend too much time trying to be considerate. We imagine our friends  a gift that is impressive, expensive, and sentimental. We imagine the look of happiness and surprise on their faces and the warmth we feel  . But there’s something that the most sentimental-gift-givers tend not to think too much about:  the gift is practical in the first place.
     , practicality seems like an enemy of great gift giving. Beautiful jewelry, lovely watches, perfect rugs, finely crafted kitchen hardware: These things  great gifts because they communicate something beyond practicality. They communicate that the giver cares.
    But do the receivers care? Often, no. "Gift receivers would be  if givers gave them exactly what they requested  attempting to be 'thoughtful and considerate' by buying gifts they did not explicitly request" to surprise them, the researchers write. Their clever paper asks givers and receivers to  gifts from two perspectives: desirability (e.g. the cost of a coffee maker) and feasibility(e.g. the  of the coffee maker). Across several experiments, they find that givers consistently give gifts based on desirability and receivers  favor gifts based on feasibility.