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:Smartphone games are inordinately popular in China, but console game developers are still few and far between, and the excitement for Wukong in Game Science’s homeland reached fever pitch.Paragraph:_____1____. When Chinese developer Game Science revealed its debut console game Black Myth: Wukong last year, it immediately caused a stir. ___2_____. Inspired by the great 16th-century Chinese novel, Journey to the West, the action-packed footage featured the titular mythological monkey Sun Wukong battling Buddhist-folklore demons and sword-wielding anthropomorphic foxes in lusciously rendered forests. _____3_____. Within 24 hours, the trailer racked up 2m views on YouTube and more than 10m on Chinese video sharing site Bilibili, much to its creators’ shock and delight. ___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: Growing disillusionment and depression among younger Chinese is not merely a symptom of the recent economic slowdown.Paragraph: ____1____. In China, a rising concern is being noted regarding the mental health of its younger population. This issue has become increasingly prominent, with many attributing it to the current economic challenges the country faces. ____2____. However, this perspective overlooks deeper, more systemic causes that have contributed to this growing trend. ____3____. The problem has been decades in the making, and owes much to China’s rigid education system, past fertility policies, and tight rural-urban migration restrictions. ____4____. These factors collectively have created a pressure-cooker environment for the youth, shaping their outlook and experiences in profound ways.Option 4Option 1Option 2Option 3

Directions: 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: It is a striking feature, however, of most societies that they deny people the choice to die at the very point when they most rationally desire it.Paragraph: The harsh reality is that most of us will find that death comes - in Williams’s phrase - either ‘too early or too late’. _____ (1) _____.  Too early, if we are not yet ready to go. _____ (2) _____. Too late, if we’ve gotten to the point where life is already not worth living anymore. _____ (3) _____. Indeed, we hardly need philosophers to convince us that, for many people, there are fates worse than death: assisted dying clinics in countries such as Switzerland demonstrate that many people will choose to die rather than carry on in gross physical pain or continued indignity, especially when there is no prospect of recovery. ______ (4) _____. Immortality is, obviously enough, an impossible fantasy - hence it cannot be a genuine solution to the unfortunate yet elemental facts of the human condition, nor an answer to the fraught complexities surrounding euthanasia as regards both social policy and moral judgment.

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

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.