What Ms. Morris appreciates most now is the mix of______and urban: She can descend into the subway and roam the city, then spend hours in the botanic garden.

(A) explaining the process by which the Earth and its oceans accreted
(B) reporting how recent research has arrived at a new explanation for the constitution of the Earth’s oceans
(C) accounting for the chemical composition of the various ingredients of the Earth’s oceans
(D) contrasting various competing hypotheses as to what the Earth’s oceans consist of
(E) reporting inconsistencies with the result of new research into the composition of the Earth’s oceans

(A) estrangement
(B) pleasantries
(C) relationship
(D) duplicity
(E) kinship