Critical Reading>Sentence Completions
Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning ofthe sentence as a whole.
Observing the newspaper's tradition of ------- attention to accuracy, the reporter ------- every statement made by her informant.
(A) scrupulous . . verified
(B) lax . . challenged
(C) sporadic . . corroborated
(D) systematic . . bungled
(E) inordinate . . exaggerated