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.

Budget cuts prompted the town's officials to cancel the annual parade, but the subsequent ------- from residents was so great that the event was -------.

(A) amazement . . shortened

(B) support . . altered

(C) disapproval . . eradicated

(D) outcry . . reinstated

(E) negligence . . upgraded 

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