**Direction**: A sentence with two blanks is given, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose
the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

The move to allow dumping of mercury ______ an outcry from residents of the area who ______ that high levels of mercury will affect their health and destroy ecologically sensitive forest area.

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**Direction**: A sentence with two blanks is given, each blank indicating that something has been omitted. Choose
the words that best fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole.

The move to allow dumping of mercury ______ an outcry from residents of the area who ______ that high levels of mercury will affect their health and destroy ecologically sensitive forest area.

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**Solution:**

1. The first blank requires a verb that means to stir up or cause an outcry. "Incited" means encouraged or stirred up, which fits well here.

2. The second blank needs a participle form of a verb that shows the residents' reaction. "Determined" here means discovered or found out, which makes sense because the residents have found out about the harmful effects.

3. "Resulted" would need the preposition "in" to be correct, so "Resulted" alone is incorrect.

4. "Fear" is a noun and cannot fit the blank which requires a verb form, so option B is incorrect.

5. "Activated an outcry" is not a correct phrase, and "supported an outcry" contradicts the idea of an outcry against dumping, so option D is wrong.

6. "Angered an outcry" is grammatically incorrect, so option E is invalid.

Therefore, option C fits both blanks perfectly and conveys the intended meaning clearly.

**Answer:** Incited, Determined

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