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Rubfromtexas wrote:
Penury is a noun meaning extreme poverty.

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Your goal sir is to explain us (or the other students) the meaning and of the sentence and WHY the OAs fit the meaning, and consequently, the blank/s

The meaning of one of the answer choices does not help that much the community.

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The but after the first blank indicates that the two parts of the sentence convey contradictory ideas.

If wealthy Bostonians developed a taste for the crustacean, then it has earned a reputation as a luxury food item.

Therefore, for most North American history (before the mid-1800s), eating a lobster was considered a sign of penury. It was eaten mostly by poor people.
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