请教Verbal Reasoning Practice Questions（150题）一道填空题

my_roUID: 3595267

Bureaucrats tend to (i) _____ . So it is surprising that the European Commission is proposing to hand back some of its antitrust powers to national governments. Such a willingness to (ii) _____ power is quite (iii) _____ . Perhaps the commission, so often a byword for meddling, bungling, and even corruption, is starting to put its house in order following the forced resignation of the previous lot of commissioners last year.

following the forced resignation of the previous lot of commissioners last year

请问这句话怎么理解？

如果说“是之前那些被迫下台的人一样？”

那么就是说即使他们put its house in order了，还是不能逃过forced resignation的命运。那么第二空岂不是predictable？

BarHarborUID: 3594541

没有那么复杂。“在前一批commissiner被迫辞职之后，逐渐开始put its house in order“。

following这里就是after