Which of the sentences below best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence in the passage? Incorrect choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.
A. Most of the vulnerable areas are in transition from desert to arable land; a process that because of human activity and the delicate nature of these areas, always leads to soil loss.
B. Human activity in the transition areas is vulnerable because of the fragile nature of these areas that are neither desert nor arable land because they have suffered damage to the soil
C. Soil loss in the transitional zones is especially severe where human activity is damaging the environment through agriculture which is causing the loss of soil.
D. It is the areas that exist between the deserts and the land that is usable for agriculture that are most at risk because they are susceptible to poor land management methods from human activity which will always result in the loss of soil.
Perhaps the most (A) welcoming and (B) friendly of the park’s wild places is the (C) live oak forest that surrounds the district’s (D) alone visitors’ center in Gulf Breeze.
You must obey the speed limits on public roads. They are designed to keep you safe. You shouldn’t exceed the speed limit ___ you are an experienced race car driver.
In 1863 and 1864, the U.S. Congress passed (A) the National Banks Acts, which set up a system of (B) privately owned banks (C) chartered by (D) a federal government.
The result was more irregularity. When the printing press was (11) __________ in the fifteenth century, many early printers of English texts spoke other first languages