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.

Scientists are studying the birth and growth of thunderstorms to discover what causes the difference between showers that enable crops to ------- and ------- storms that cause floods and erosions.

(A) flourish . . violent

(B) wither . . damaging

(C) grow . . harmless

(D) parch . . severe

(E) multiply . . essential 

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