What is the answer?

[juliana0403]

Hi, please read the following sentences, and explain why the answer is (A)..

I don't understand the answer. Thank you.

Having listened to both Korean and English, I also tend to be suspicious of

any language that is often used as the ______ for a logical form of

expression. And so the language being compared is always in _______ of

being judged deficient of superfluous, simplistic or unneccessarily complex.

(A) benchmark- danger
(B) excuse - possibility
(C) standard- exploitation
(D) criterion-power
(E) type-obedience

[meez]

The explanation is: because the others are wrong.
Why don't you tell us why you think that the others are right?