There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.Sentence: Humankind was merely in its infancy; trillions of people might still be born.Paragraph: In setting Morrison’s critique and prophecy in relief, against the background of simultaneous counter-movements in the culture, we can begin to see the acuity and power of her arguments. Morrison ended with the image of a generative garden, but over the next three decades Earth’s actual gardens would be ravaged at a pace unprecedented in human history. _____(1)_____ Over this same period, even as the threat of imminent nuclear war receded from the forefront of public consciousness, new technologies were rapidly developing that would, emerging transhumanists argued, pose exponentially larger threats to humanity than those posed by nuclear weapons or environmental degradation. All these threats were anthropogenic, the result of human actions. _____(2)_____ Sentient life had reached a threshold; it would either evolve into more intelligent, self-optimised, wise and moral forms, or it would probably destroy itself within centuries, if not sooner. _____(3)_____ For all their doomsday predictions, many of these same transhumanists believed that these emerging technologies, if guided by careful, coordinated oversight, could create a future in which human suffering and poverty could be eradicated. _____(4)_____Option 1Option 2Option 4Option 3

Humankind was merely in its infancy; trillions of people might still be born.Paragraph: In setting Morrison’s critique and prophecy in relief, against the background of simultaneous counter-movements in the culture, we can begin to see the acuity and power of her arguments. Morrison ended with the image of a generative garden, but over the next three decades Earth’s actual gardens would be ravaged at a pace unprecedented in human history. _____(1)_____ Over this same period, even as the threat of imminent nuclear war receded from the forefront of public consciousness, new technologies were rapidly developing that would, emerging transhumanists argued, pose exponentially larger threats to humanity than those posed by nuclear weapons or environmental degradation. All these threats were anthropogenic, the result of human actions. _____(2)_____ Sentient life had reached a threshold; it would either evolve into more intelligent, self-optimised, wise and moral forms, or it would probably destroy itself within centuries, if not sooner. _____(3)_____ For all their doomsday predictions, many of these same transhumanists believed that these emerging technologies, if guided by careful, coordinated oversight, could create a future in which human suffering and poverty could be eradicated. _____(4)_____Option 1Option 2Option 4Option 3

There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph(s) below. Look at the paragraph(s) and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit. Sentence: Yet the coming slaughter, which would leave 35m dead or wounded, was not inevitable.Paragraph: Viewed from the capitals of Western Europe, the world looked pretty good in 1913. There were many, it is true, who heard rumblings of war; but this was so often the case in Europe, even after two decades of peace. The Economist was not alarmed. _____(1)_____ In June 1913, it described the recent entente cordiale between Britain and France as “the expression of tendencies which are slowly but surely making war between the civilized communities of the world an impossibility.”We got that wrong. _____(2)_____ Europe was not only peaceful but also richer, healthier and arguably more stable than it had ever been. It was also more interconnected. Kaiser Wilhelm II, King George V and Tsar Nicholas II were cousins and socialized together. The latter two monarchs looked very much alike, and the societies they presided over were also close kin._____(3)_____ A hybridised elite travelled the continent, patronising its hybridised music and art. A swelling European middle-class went shopping for the same luxuries in London as in Vienna. And Europe's workers at least had the consolation of socialism – as preached by the 553 delegates from 23 countries who gathered in Switzerland in November 1912 to rededicate themselves to peace. Despite expressions of nationalist fervour, in Europe, a multi-tiered continental identity was emerging. _____(4)_____

There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.Sentence:I’ll never forget the moment I realised the environment movement had finally entered the political mainstream.Paragraph:When I entered parliament back in 2010 as the first Green MP, I used every possible trick in the book to push the environment up the UK’s political agenda. ____1____. In the early days, progress was agonisingly slow. Simply making the case that Britain should be powered by renewables, not fossil fuels, was a daily battle. ____2___. Every single budget, I would stand up and ask the same question: what about the climate? And then, quite quickly, things finally began to change. ____3_____. The shift dawned on me during the school strikes five years ago, which brought over a million people worldwide out on to the streets in protest. _____4______.

There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.Sentence: However, in the course of the 19th century, the free market largely failed to deliver the developmental goods, proving itself to be more adept at generating than distributing wealth.Paragraph: Meritocracy loomed large over Victorian capitalism. _____(1)_____ And so, in the early decades of the 20th century, stirred by both political and intellectual developments – the growing appeal of communism to a working class that had tasted comparatively few of the market’s fruits, and the consequent rise of economic schools that aimed to renew capitalism, such as Keynesianism and the German social-market – the state gradually took on a much more active role in both society and the economy. _____(2)_____ Immediately after the Second World War, with Europe in ruins, the communist threat seemed to reach its peak. _____(3)_____ To spearhead reconstruction, Western states created institutions such as the World Bank to assist governments in their work, and private charities arose to join this crusade. _____(4)_____ Oxfam (1942), CARE International (1945) and UNICEF (a joint private-United Nations charity created in 1946) all came into being to provide famine relief to war-torn Europe.

There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph(s) below. Look at the paragraph(s) and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.Sentence: In this grand sense, transience has always been a part of life.Paragraph: Much of our theorizing about social and psychological change presents a valid picture of man in relatively static societies – but a distorted and incomplete picture of the truly contemporary man. It misses a critical difference between the men of the past or present and the men of the future. _____(1)_____ This difference is summed up in the word "transience."The concept of transience provides a long-missing link between sociological theories of change and the psychology of individual human beings. _____(2)_____ Integrating both, it permits us to analyze the problems of high-speed change in a new way. And, as we shall see, it gives us a method – crude but powerful – to measure inferentially the rate of situation flow.Transience is the new "temporariness" in everyday life. It results in a mood, a feeling of impermanence. Philosophers and theologians, of course, have always been aware that man is ephemeral. _____(3)_____ But today the feeling of impermanence is more acute and intimate. Thus, Edward Albee's character, Jerry, in The Zoo Story, characterizes himself as a "permanent transient." And critic Harold Clurman, commenting on Albee, writes: "None of us occupy abodes of safety – true homes. We are all the same 'people in all the rooming houses everywhere,' desperately and savagely trying to effect soul-satisfying connections with our neighbors." _____(4)_____ We are, in fact, all citizens of the Age of Transience.