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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 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

答案和解析

答案：A

解析：

Choice (A) is correct. It is logical to connect the "decimation," or harm done to, a park's trees to the "prevalence," or dominance, of a harmful species of termites.