B. Consequently. The transitional word that best fills the blank is
“consequently.” When we look at the excerpt from the passage you
provided, we can see two sentences. The second sentence seems to be a
result of the first sentence. With that in mind, of the possible
transitional words, we need to find the word that most closely means “as
a result” as this will give us the best transition to use. The word
that means “as a result” (even though it has a negative connotation) is
“consequently.”
