3. Even the cleverest use of time management technique is powerless to ________ the sum of minutes in a person’s life (over 52 million, optimistically assuming a life expecting of 100 years), so people squeeze as much as they could into each one of them.
A. justify
B. quantify C. augment
D. enrich
E. measure F. extend
4. One sometimes hear that Marco Polo introduced pasta to the Western World, having encountered it in China. This durable myth, which (i)________ nothing should have been known of pasta in Italy until 1295, when Marco Polo returned from the Far East can easily be (ii)________ by point out that there are Italian references to pasta that (iii)________.
Blank (i) A. requires
B. demonstrates
C. symbolizes
Blank (ii)
D. augmented E. debunked
F. traced
Blank (iii)
G. praise its virtues
H. can be authenticated I. predate that event