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08 Jul 2024, 23:07
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Be sure to select an answer first to save it in the Error Log before revealing the correct answer (OA)!
Difficulty:
35%
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Question Stats:
69% (00:57) correct
30% (01:14) wrong based on 23 sessions
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Repression of painful memories is sometimes called “willed forgetting.” Yet true forgetting is (i)__________ than the phenomenon of repressed memory. In spite of the effort that it (ii)__________, repressing unwanted memories is less (iii)__________ than truly forgetting them, for repressed memories are prone to come back.
Blank (i)
A. less controlled
B. different in its effect
C. far more common
Blank (ii)
D. eases
E. conveys
F. entails
Blank (iii)
G. permanent
H. arduous
I. immediate
Blank (i)
A. less controlled
B. different in its effect
C. far more common
Blank (ii)
D. eases
E. conveys
F. entails
Blank (iii)
G. permanent
H. arduous
I. immediate
10 Dec 2024, 12:20
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Donnie84, can you please explain why convey is not correct for the second blank?
13 Dec 2024, 08:49
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tkorzhan27071995
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This question is best answered by first completing the third blank.
The third sentence sets up a comparison between repressing memories and forgetting them. The word “for” indicates that the last part of the sentence
—“repressed memories are prone to come back”—presents the basis of that comparison. Choice G, “permanent,” is the only choice that is related to the tendency to come back.
Working backward, the sentence begins with “In spite of,” suggesting that the correct choice for the second blank is contrary to what one might expect. One would ordinarily expect that something entailing effort would be more rather than less permanent. Neither “eases” nor “conveys” sets up such an expectation.
Filling the second and third blanks makes it possible to fill the first blank. Nothing in the completed text suggests that true forgetting is “more common” or “less controlled” than the repression of painful memories, but it does suggest that true forgetting is different in its effect—it is more permanent. Thus, Choice B, “different in its effect,” is correct.
Thus, the correct answer is different in its effect (Choice B), entails (Choice F), and permanent (Choice G).
