Multiple choice

Directions: In the following sentence, there are two blank spaces. Find out which pair of words can be used to fill in the blanks in the sentence in the same sequence to make the sentence meaningful and complete.

Global warming has ________ this loss and may potentially raise sea levels to ________ heights.

  1. discouraged, wasting

  2. hastened, devastating

  3. rushed, confound

  4. encouraged, protecting

  5. created, new

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

‘Hastened’ means ‘accelerated’ and ‘devastating’ refers to ‘destroying’.