[Music] hello everyone my name is Neil and Welcome to our exam exercise walkthrough from ESL lounge.com today we're working through C1 Advanced multiple choice cloes exercise number c ae6 let's start with number one politicians have been arguing about the reasons for the blank in the number of unemployed the options are decline descent recession and weakening the correct answer is decline decline refers to a gradual decrease in this context it means a reduction in the number of unemployed people another example there has been a steady decline in crime rates over the past decade moving on to number two Charles Lindberg was one of the early blank in powered flight and cross the Atlantic in 1927 the options are inventors Pioneers Chiefs and creators the correct answer is Pioneers Pioneers refers to people who are among the first to explore or settle a new area or field in this context it highlights lindberg's significant early contributions to Aviation another example the pioneers of the computer industry laid the groundwork for modern technology next up question three we used advertising to blank interest in the product and then educated people on how to use it the options are introduce adopt breed and generate the correct answer is generate generate interest means to produce or create interest in something in this context it refers to creating interest in the product via advertising another example if we hang posters around the college that will help to generate some interest here's question four it never blank to me that Mike and Sherry's marriage was in any trouble the options are reveal occurred concerned and struck the correct answer is occurred occurred means to come into your mind in this context it means that the thought never came to mind another example it never occurred to me to ask for help moving on to question five all attempts to reach Darren at home on his phone blank with failure the options are met finished put and resulted the correct answer is met met with failure is an idiomatic expression meaning to be unsuccessful in this context it means all attempts were unsuccessful another example their efforts to find a solution met with failure the main distractor in this question is resulted resulted is often used with the preposition in to indicate the outcome of an action such as the Heavy Rain resulted in flooding next is question six any problems blank from the new contract are not my concern I warned against signing it the options are producing arising deriving and arriving the correct answer is arising arising means to emerge or become apparent in this context it refers to problems that come up due to the new contract another example issues arising from the merger will be addressed in the meeting the main distractor is deriving generally used to describe the process of obtaining something from a specific Source like the word derives from Latin it implies a source-based origin which doesn't align with the emergence of problems as a consequence of an action making it less suitable compared to a rising which specifically indicates the emergence of issues as a direct consequence of something question seven the director was accused of being blank in the way he ran the company the options are inflexible inevitable infallible and inflatable the correct answer is inflexible inflexible means unwilling to change or adapt in this context it means the director was rigid in his management style another example her inflexible approach made it difficult to implement new ideas and now the last one question eight in the tough economic climate the company GTV has blank by over 40% the options are sunk belittled reduced and shrunk the correct answer is shrunk shrunk means to become smaller in this context it refers to the company's reduction in size or value another example the company's Workforce has shrunk significantly the main distractor reduced is commonly used to describe deliberate actions to decrease something such as the company reduced its prices this term impli an intentional reduction typically in numbers or quantities in contrast trunk refers to a passive decrease particularly in size or value influenced by external factors that's all today from ESL lounge.com thanks for joining me see you next time [Music]