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 

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