Because the council began publishing detailed records of every vote, its decision-making process, once criticized as secretive, became considerably more [Blank 1].
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Answer: B (transparent)
The word “Because” establishes that publishing detailed voting records changed the council’s decision-making process. A process that was once criticized as secretive would become more transparent when its records were made public. The other choices do not express this cause-and-effect relationship.