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Craft and Structure practice question
Membership of the rowing club has ____ since the new boathouse opened, from forty to over a hundred in three seasons.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
- A. expandedCorrect
- B. collapsed
- C. stalled
- D. fluctuated
Answer: A. expanded
Forty to over a hundred: expanded.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. collapsed
- The opposite.
- C. stalled
- A stall would show no change.
- D. fluctuated
- Fluctuation goes both ways; this is a rise.
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