单项选择题

Surprisingly to those who view the ocean floor as a uniformly ______ waste, each vent in the floor, where seawater is heated by the earth's inte-rior magma, has been found to be an island-like ______ with its own distinctive fauna.

A. teeming...habitat
B. lifeless...enclave
C. barren...oasis
D. sunken...grotto
E. hazardous...environment