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21 Oct 2024, 09:38
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45%
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Question Stats:
37% (00:57) correct
62% (00:45) wrong based on 8 sessions
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As the finances of the energy-trading firm began unraveling, what eventually became (i)_________was that the company had been concocting “value” out of thin air, thanks not to the trading strategies it promoted as visionary but to financial (ii)_________that turned a once-solid entity into the most notorious (iii)_________in an era of corporate scandals.
Blank (i)
Blank (ii)
Blank (iii)
Blank (i)
| A. vindicated |
| B. unmistakable |
| C. unverifable |
Blank (ii)
| D. redemption |
| E. responsibilities |
| F. games |
Blank (iii)
| G. omission |
| H. boon |
| I. debacle |
22 Apr 2025, 10:07
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The characterization of the company’s activities as “concocting ‘value’ out of thin air” strongly suggests that its transactions have been fraudulent. The word that completes Blank (ii) must reflect this fnancial trickery; “games” does so, whereas both “redemption” and “responsibilities” both reflect more upstanding behavior than the sentence ascribes to the frm. Te word that completes Blank (iii) should reflect the company’s fall from respectability and have a sense opposite to the “once-solid entity” with which it is contrasted. “Debacle” does this nicely, while the other two choices lack the necessary pejorative meaning. For Blank (i), “vindicated” suggests that there had been previous warnings about the frm’s practices that were eventually borne out, something indicated nowhere else in the passage. “Unverifable” is at odds with the sentence’s surety about the frm’s wrongdoing; that assurance is best conveyed by “unmistakable.”
Thus the correct answer is unmistakable (Choice B), games (Choice F), and debacle (Choice I)
The characterization of the company’s activities as “concocting ‘value’ out of thin air” strongly suggests that its transactions have been fraudulent. The word that completes Blank (ii) must reflect this fnancial trickery; “games” does so, whereas both “redemption” and “responsibilities” both reflect more upstanding behavior than the sentence ascribes to the frm. Te word that completes Blank (iii) should reflect the company’s fall from respectability and have a sense opposite to the “once-solid entity” with which it is contrasted. “Debacle” does this nicely, while the other two choices lack the necessary pejorative meaning. For Blank (i), “vindicated” suggests that there had been previous warnings about the frm’s practices that were eventually borne out, something indicated nowhere else in the passage. “Unverifable” is at odds with the sentence’s surety about the frm’s wrongdoing; that assurance is best conveyed by “unmistakable.”
Thus the correct answer is unmistakable (Choice B), games (Choice F), and debacle (Choice I)
