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A road was recently built in a Maryland woodland that is home to the house finch. Some finches' nests were situated close to the new road and others were deeper in the woodland. Common ravens, which eat finch eggs, can spot nests near the open spaces of roads more easily than they can spot nests surrounded by woodland. Accordingly, researchers in Maryland trying to predict the impact of the new road on finches have suggested that       
Which choice most logically completes the text?
finch eggs will make up about the same percentage of common ravens' diet as they did before the road was built.
A
the number of finches building nests near the road will gradually increase as the finches adapt to the presence of the common ravens.
B
finches nesting near the road will lose eggs to common ravens at a higher rate than will finches nesting far from the road.
C
finches nesting far from the road will lay fewer eggs per nest than will finches nesting near the road.
D