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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.

Designed to resist storms by virtue of their ------- weight, the oil platforms towed into the North Sea were the heaviest objects ever moved by human technology.

(A) inconsistent
(B) purported
(C) unstable
(D) random
(E) immense

答案和解析

答案：E

解析：

The sentence focuses on one aspect of the platforms—extreme heaviness. Therefore, "immense" makes a logically consistent sentence.