Critical Reading > Sentence Completions

　　Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

　　The scientist ascribed the ------- of the park’s remaining trees to the ------- of the same termite species that had damaged homes throughout the city.

　　(A) decimation . . prevalence

　　(B) survival . . presence

　　(C) growth . . mutation

　　(D) reduction . . disappearance

　　(E) study . . hatching

　　正确答案：A

　　Explanation

　　Choice (A) is correct. It is logical to connect the “decimation,” or harm done to, a park’s trees to the “prevalence,” or dominance, of a harmful species of termites.

编辑：张雨

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