Question 8 Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension 2020 Medium MCQ +3.00 marks · -1.00 negative

I’ve been following the economic crisis for more than two years now. I began working on the subject as part of the background to a novel, and soon realized that I had stumbled across the most interesting story I’ve ever found. While I was beginning to work on it, the British…

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All of the following, if true, could be seen as supporting the arguments in the passage, EXCEPT:

A. The failure of economic systems does not necessarily mean the failure of their ideologies. B. The story of the economic crisis is also one about international relations, global financial security, and mass psychology. C. The difficulty with understanding financial matters is that they have become so arcane. D. Economic crises could be averted by changing prevailing ideologies and beliefs.

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