Multiple choice

In many cases, Chinese banks work with so-called trust firms to attract savings through high-yielding investment products while lend the money to high-risk sectors, including property developers and cash-strapped local governments, without having to book the loans on their balance sheets.

  1. with so-called trust firms to attract savings through high-yielding investment products while lend the money to high-risk sectors

  2. with so-called trust firms to attract savings through high-yield investment products to lend the money to high-risk sectors

  3. with so-called trust firms to attract savers through high-yield investment products to lend the money to high-risk sectors

  4. with so-called trust firms to attract savers through high-yielding investment products and lend the money to high-risk sectors

  5. with so-called trust firms to attract savings through high-yielding investment products and lend the money to high-risk sectors
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D Correct answer
Explanation

The points of contention in the sentence are – savers/savings, high-yielding/high-yield and while/to/and. Banks would work to attract savers obviously as savings per se cannot be attracted. The adjective form of high-yield that is apt for the sentence is high yielding. And the best conjunction for the sentence would be ‘and’ as ‘while’ and ‘to’ are out of context. Hence (4).

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