Loss, Decline, and Recovery

3 questions. Choose the meaning or usage that best fits each situation. Try answering before reopening the passage.

1What makes irreparable appropriate for the relationship in this account?A. The characters have a minor disagreement that they immediately settle.B. The narrative explicitly presents the breach as impossible to repair and rules out restoring the former relationship.C. The station needs repairs that residents successfully begin.D. Any conflict automatically proves that all future trust is impossible.

2A place beyond recovery or improvement would be _____, which this station is not.A. promisingB. recoverableC. serviceableD. irredeemable

3Which action would extirpate the invalid permit-fee practice?A. Reduce one charge while keeping the same invalid practice available.B. Rename the fees without changing when or why they are collected.C. Delay one collection and resume the unchanged scheme the next day.D. Remove the practice completely, including the records and procedures that keep it operating.

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