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  3. it certainly rattled some windows to make these loans wrote a warning memo began to A. "hot money" owners (68)______pull their f

it certainly rattled some windows to make these loans wrote a warning memo began to A. "hot money" owners (68)______pull their f

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问题 it certainly rattled some windows to make these loans wrote a warning memo began to
A. "hot money" owners (68)______pull their funds out of Continental
B. but(69)______
C. one Continental officer saw danger signs and (70)______to her superiors
D. To obtain the funds it needed(71)______
    The stability of the U.S. banking system is maintained by means of supervision and regulation, inspections, deposit insurance, and loans to troubled banks. For over 50 years, these precautions have prevented banking panics. However, there have been some close calls. The collapse of Continental Illinois Bank & Trusted Company of Chicago in 1984 did not bring down the banking system, but (72)______.
    In the late 1970s, Continental soared to a leadership position among Midwestern banks. Parts of its growth strategy were risky, however. It made many loans in the energy field, including $ 1 billion that it took over from Penn Square Bank of Oklahoma City. (73)______, Continental relied heavily on short term borrowing from other banks and large 30-day certificates of deposit- "hot money", in banking jargon. At least (74)______, but the memo went unheeded. Although the Comptroller of the Currency inspected Continental on a regular basis, it failed to see how serious its problems were going to be.
    Penn Square Bank was closed by regulators in July 1982. When energy prices began to slip, most of the $1 billion in loans that Continental had taken over from the smaller banks turned out to be bad. Other loans to troubled companies such Chrysler, International Harvester, and Braniff looked questionable. Seeing these problem, (75)______.
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答案B
解析 空格前一句的意思为：不过还是有很危急的时候。空格所在句的意思应为：1984年的伊利诺大陆银行和芝加哥信托公司的倒闭虽然没有导致银行业系统的崩溃，但是影响也不小。所以，B项符合题意。
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