Critical Reading>Sentence Completions
Choose the word or set of words that, when inserted in the sentence, best fits the meaning of the sentence as a whole.
Demographers and anthropologists have corrected the notion that European explorers in North America entered a ------- territory by showing that the land in some areas was already as densely ------- as parts of Europe
(A) fertile . . settled
(B) colossal . . wooded
(C) desolate . . populated
(D) valuable . . exploited
(E) hostile . . concentrated