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.
The meeting lasted more than five hours as participants ------- the presentation of the speaker, gradually polarized into factions, and, by the end, were further from ------- than at the start.
(A) aided . . harmony
(B) interrupted . . a consensus
(C) denounced . . a scandal
(D) ended . . an argument
(E) encouraged . . disagreement