247. The scientist warned that global warming might ______ a ______ of some mosquito-borne diseases, resulting in an increasing number of epidemics around the world.
A. precede, decline
B. stimulate, resurgence
C. eliminate, plague
D. deter, expansion
E. induce, quarantine
248. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were the era when Pueblo pottery was least likely to be ______ and from which, consequently, the fewest authentic examples .
A. discovered, originate
B. preserved, survive
C. promoted, disappear
D. counterfeited, persist
E. mishandled, endure