Difference between boring and bored

[Guest]

Test No. errors/advan-1 "Give me the bill", question 7

It is important to initiate all new recruits quickly into company procedures to stop the former becoming boring.

(a) to initiate
(b) into
(c) to stop
(d) boring

Test No. errors/advan-1 "Give me the bill", answer 7

It is important to initiate all new recruits quickly into company procedures to stop the former becoming bored.

Correct entry: bored
The error was: (d) boring

You have not found the error.
It is important to initiate all new recruits quickly into company procedures to stop the former becoming boring.
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Doesn't "the former" refer to the recruits, which can only become bored, not boring? The procedures would be "the latter" and boring would not make sense as the procedures might be boring anyway, and being initiated or not would not make them more or less boring.

[Alan]

Sorry you've lost me! Bored is the right answer and you chose initiated.
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[Guest]

Sorry.
It seems that I mis-clicked. I wanted to take boring/bored, and when seeing the results, did not notice that it had registered initiated...