Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
The unemployment rate is high. The crime rate is usually also high
A. The high rate of unemployment depends on the high rate of crime
B. The higher the unemployment rate is, the higher the crime rate is
C. The unemployment rate and the crime rate are both higher
D. The unemployment rate is as high as the crime rate