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Even though it was not illegal for the bank to share its customers' personal and financial information with an outside marketing company in return for a commission on sales, the state's attorney general accused the bank of engaging in deceptive business practices by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep records private.
by failing to honor its promise to its customers to keep
by its failure of honoring its promise to its customers to keep
in its failing to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
because of its failure in honoring its promise to its customers in keeping
because of its failure to honor its promise to its customers of keeping
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by修饰被控告的Bank的practice没问题；E选项of keeping确实尴尬。
A中第一个to指向对象，第二个to指明promise的内容，正确。
engage in ...by ...,通过何种方式参与
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并不是因为because of本身有什么问题，而是because of这个因果关系在原句会产生歧义，because of 既可以理解为动作accuse的原因，也可以理解为engage in的原因，作为作者，句子一定是要避免类似被误解的可能。
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原意思：用‘没有信守承诺...’告银行商业欺诈。即商业欺诈就是没有信守承诺。（换个易懂的例子，用偷东西这件事在法庭上告小偷偷窃，偷东西就是偷窃，而不是偷东西造成了偷窃。）总而言之就原文想表达的逻辑语义并不是（并没有）因果关系所以不能用because of。
所以（e）：商业欺诈是由没信守承诺造成。是错的，商业欺诈指的就是没信守承诺这件事，而不是没信守承诺的结果。
当时觉得by有可能修饰accuse就把AB都排除了...
by介词短语做状语修饰engaging
具体来说，就是engage的方式是by failing to xxx
自己对句意理解的不对……
应该是通过XX方式参与了欺骗的行为 而不是因为XX，所以参与了欺骗的行为
by 这里修饰银行通过什么方式欺骗 because of修饰主句，变成了律师控告银行是因为律师的失败问题。明显语义不对
C in doing不能表示方式
B 中出现了its指代问题，而且fail to do更加习惯
习惯用法，promise to do sth 或者 promise that…
the failure of doing sth 不如fail to do sth简洁。而且GMAT偏向于动词
b.failure of 不对
c. its failing < failure
“by……”表示-是银行欺诈的方式， “because……”表示原因，和本句句意不符
"by failing" modifies "engaging"
by 是表示方式，这里不选择because of也是因为because of 本来就不符合这句话的本意。本意是，银行试图通过falling to honor。。。而参与商业欺骗活动，而不是“因为”falling to honor。。。而参与了商业欺骗活动~~
(1) incorrect idiom: 'promise of keeping' is wrong. the correct form is 'promise to keep'.
(2) change in meaning: the correct meaning is what appears in the original sentence, namely, that the failure to honor promises WAS the deceptive business practice. choice e, with its use of 'because', implies that the failure to keep promises LED TO (other) deceptive business practices. remember that you have to interpret words like 'because' very, very literally.
by failing 修饰动名词engaging；动词含义名词形式也可以被状语修饰。
嗯 我也觉得 这里的by是bank engage in ...practice 的方式 而不是banks engage in ...practice 的原因 原因肯定是为了赚钱吧
(1) incorrect idiom: 'promise of keeping' is wrong. the correct form is 'promise to keep'.
(2) change in meaning: the correct meaning is what appears in the original sentence, namely, that the failure to honor promises WAS the deceptive business practice. choice e, with its use of 'because', implies that the failure to keep promises LED TO (other) deceptive business practices. remember that you have to interpret words like 'because' very, very literally.
promise约束力强，用 to do，排除CDE
fail to do sth表示没有做某事
fail of doing表示做失败了
文中应该指银行没有维护客户信息而不是银行维护客户信息失败了
promise这里是名词吧。。。
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(E) its failing是动名词不够简洁;promise of doing的表达不正确
accuse sb (of sth) 控告；控诉