|Question 19Verbal

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Author Jeffrey Auerbach disputes claims that London's Great Exhibition of 1851 was a show of Victorian-era England's economic _____ citing previously unpublished records of the exhibition's planning commission, Auerbach makes the compelling argument that the event was foremost an attempt to boost a stagnating economy, not celebrate its supremacy.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
might and
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might,
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might by
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might;
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