After the United Kingdom began rolling out taxes equivalent to a few cents on single-use plastic grocery bags in 2011, plastic-bag consumption decreased by up to ninety____taxes are subject to what economists call the “rebound effect”: as the change became normalized, plastic bag use started to creep back up.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A)percent, such

B) percent. Such

C) such. percent

D) such, percent

Bengali author Toru Dutt’s A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields (1876), a volume of English translations of French poems,____scholars’ understanding of the transnational and multilingual contexts in which Dutt lived and worked.

Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?

A) enhanced has

B) enhanced, has

C) has enhanced

D) enhanced. has

From afar, Bisa Butler’s paintings look like paintings, with human faces, bodies, and clothing so difficult to render that only a fine brush seems to be able to do so. Up close, the paintings are____, visible in thousands of printed, microcut fabric pieces.

Which choice completes the text accordingly?

A) quilts

B) quilts the

C) quilts, the

D) quilts. the

According to botanists, a viburnum plant experiencing insect damage may develop perineum—a discolored, felty growth—on its leaf blades. A____viburnum plant, on the other hand, will have leaves with smooth surfaces and uniformly green coloration.

Which choice completes the text?

A) healthy

B) dying

C) favorable

D) easy

In Nature Poem (2017), Kumeyaay poet Tommy Pico portrays his____the natural world by honoring the centrality of nature within his tribe’s traditional beliefs while simultaneously expressing his distaste for being in wilderness settings himself.

Which choice completes the text with the reasonable and precise word or motto?

A)ability over

B) ambivalence toward

C) refusal of

D) impartiality to