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Exercise "Global financial crisis", created by woodyrun (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 27 218 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 58.5 / 100 Share


Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): djez / FRANCE, on Tuesday 14 November - 23:00:
"Money!"


They got a perfect mark


Stats (22319 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 74.1 %
When the US economy was * and the interest rates were very low

Question 2 passed: 74 %
, millions of Americans signed for housing *.

Question 3 passed: 77.2 %
As the interest rates were low, many * took on bigger loans for bigger houses.

Question 4 passed: 52.7 %
Then, due to a huge demand for *, housing prices soared.

Question 5 passed: 52.2 %
Some investment banks which saw a big opportunity there, made the usual procedures to get a loan much easier and * loans to households with low income or unstable jobs.

Question 6 passed: 47 %
These loans were granted with very high * interest rates.

Question 7 passed: 62.1 %
They are called *.

Question 8 passed: 58.3 %
Then, when the economy began to slow and interest rates began to *,

Question 9 passed: 59.2 %
people were no longer able to pay back their *.

Question 10 passed: 42.3 %
A huge * began:

Question 11 passed: 61.2 %
a famous investment bank, Lehman Brothers, * bankrupt

Question 12 passed: 83.8 %
and over one million homes were sold at *.

Question 13 passed: 50.2 %
A rescue package was signed by the US president to stimulate economic *,

Question 14 passed: 47.7 %
but the financial crisis is spreading and economists say that many countries are now on the verge of *.


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