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Pick out the correct option from the given options to make the sentence meaningfully complete.
Although often benign, nature can be a terrible foe and mankind has fought a near constant battle against the results of its capriciousness - severe floods and storms, devastating earthquakes, and cataclysmic volcanic eruptions. ---- The omens for the next century and beyond are, however, far from encouraging.(A) Dramatic rises in temperature and sea level i coming decades induced by greenhouse gases in combination with ever growing population will without doubt result in a huge increase in the number and intensity of natural disasters.(B) The potential for the earth itself to do us serious harm is less widely documented.(C) So far, however, we have been fortunate, and our civilization has grown and developed against a back drop of relative climatic and geological calm.
Although often benign, nature can be a terrible foe and mankind has fought a near constant battle against the results of its capriciousness - severe floods and storms, devastating earthquakes, and cataclysmic volcanic eruptions. ---- The omens for the next century and beyond are, however, far from encouraging.(A) Dramatic rises in temperature and sea level i coming decades induced by greenhouse gases in combination with ever growing population will without doubt result in a huge increase in the number and intensity of natural disasters.(B) The potential for the earth itself to do us serious harm is less widely documented.(C) So far, however, we have been fortunate, and our civilization has grown and developed against a back drop of relative climatic and geological calm.
Answer: Option D
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The first sentence states that nature, by and large, is benign but sometimes nature's capriciousness is manifest in the form of floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc. Statement C says that despite all this we have been fortunate and our civilization has developed against a backdrop of relative geological calm. The last statement contrasts with statement C by saying that the omens for the next century are 'far from encouraging'. Therefore only statement C forms a logically coherent paragraph with the two given statements. Statements A and B can come after the last statement - but cannot be inserted between the two given statements.
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