Section: Reasoning Through Language Arts B

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Sentences 3 and 4: Selection of hiking shoes should be your first concern. Even a one-day hike can be misery without comfortable shoes.

The most effective combination of sentences 3 and 4 would include which of
the following groups of words?

concern, also even
concern, although even
concern, because even
concern, if even
concern, whereas even

Explanation

Because is correct since the second sentence states the reason for the first.