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Hard Reading and Writing · Standard English Conventions · Form, Structure, and Sense · MCQ

In the 1970s, Janaki Ammal, a prominent botanist, emerged as a powerful voice in India’s environmental conservation movement. Her exhaustive chromosomal survey of plants in Silent Valley, a pristine tropical forest in Kerala, India, that is home to nearly 1,000 species of native flora (many of which are endangered), ______blank instrumental in the government’s decision to preserve the forest.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

  1. A

    are

  2. B

    were

  3. C

    have been

  4. D

    was

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