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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 salmon's extraordinary ability to smell a single drop of its home river in almost two million gallons of seawater is only one of the fish's many ------- skills.

(A) sinuous
(B) encumbered
(C) colossal
(D) prodigious
(E) furtive

答案和解析

答案：D

解析：

The sentence focuses on an ability that is "extraordinary," or very remarkable. It makes sense to suggest that this remarkable ability is just one of the salmon's "many prodigious skills," or only one of the salmon's many remarkable and impressive skills.