2015年8月18日SAT官方每日一題

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　　標題範例：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 ------- of trees in East Africa has caused the number of native antelopes to ------- sharply because they can live only where the forest is most dense.

　　(A) planting . . decline

　　(B) destruction . . grow

　　(C) felling . . decrease

　　(D) abundance . . dip

　　(E) protection . . drop

　　謎底：C

　　【剖析】

　　This sentence asks you to recognize a cause and effect relationship: a decreasing number of trees causes antelope populations to decrease. The only option in which both terms have a logical cause and effect relationship is “felling . . decrease.”