In the fragment of Text I “we urgently need to take stock of policy initiatives around the world" (lines 21-22), take stock means to

According to Text I, one of the guiding principles for clean energy investment is


In the fragment “The threat to stability is all the greater given that Iran is likely to win any such clash and to treat the result as a licence to reassert its influence in the region" (lines 17-20), given that can be replaced, without change in meaning, by



Based on the meanings in Text I, the two items that express synonymous ideas are

In the fragments “some recent data suggests that as economic growth has picked up" (lines 47-48) and “Beijing has high ambitions for a much cleaner energy economy, driven not least by the levels of air pollution in many of the major cities" (lines 49-51), picked up and driven by mean, respectively,