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Multiple Choice
Choose the best link (A, B, C, or D) between the two parts of the sentence.

___ the many hardships they had to face, the balloonists managed to reach their destination.

The candidate has complied with all the requirements set by the university; this institution, ___, awards her the degree of Master of Arts.

At first glance the idea appears to be attractive; ___ there are a lot of details to be clear up.

The problem is that, ___ children who are given cow’s milk from birth benefit greatly from it, those who have never drunk it by a certain age are not able to tolerate it.

It is true that other Europeans visited the new world before the 15th century, ___ Columbus is rightly credited with its discovery because of the ultimate consequences of his voyages.

___ it must be admitted that the NASA space program has been extremely costly, advances in space technology have led to money-making products.

___ the extraordinarily good results, it was decided to try the same approach next year.

___ no mutually acceptable agenda could be arrived at, the talks were eventually called off.

Sleep researchers have been looking for over a decade for a specific enzyme that needs to be restored at night following daily depletion, ___ it is surprising that no signs of such a substance have been encountered.

The evidence for the connection includes the fact that the narwhal’s tusk looks like the unicorn’s mythical horn and, ___ the fact that fishermen sold narwhal tusks to apothecaries in the 15th century, because the tusks had “magical properties.”