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: If only change could stop, especially at some perfect point: that was the theme of the profound story of Faust’s bet with the devil.Paragraph:Questions about life’s meaning are prompted by more than mere idle curiosity or fear of missing out. _______ (1) _______. Meaning is a powerful tool in human life. To understand what that tool is used for, it helps to appreciate something else about life as a process of ongoing change. A living thing might always be in flux, but life cannot be at peace with endless change. Living things yearn for stability, seeking to establish harmonious relationships with their environment. _______ (2) ______. They want to know how to get food, water, shelter and the like. They find or create places where they can rest and be safe. ______ (3) ______. They might keep the same home for years. Life, in other words, is change accompanied by a constant striving to slow or stop the process of change, which leads ultimately to death. ______ (4) _______. Faust lost his soul because he could not resist the wish that a wonderful moment would last forever.

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:In psychosis, the world sometimes seems really real; everything is infused with meaning and significance.Paragraph:There are numerous ways madness can illuminate reality. ___1__. Kusters argues, for example, that Western philosophy has often focused solely on “the furniture of the world”, the kinds of things that make up reality. ___2__. Is there just one substance, or more? Does the world divide neatly into natural kinds? Kusters argues, on the basis of his own experiences with psychosis, that reality doesn't just come parcelled into kinds, but degrees. ___3__. At other times, the world seems hollow, insubstantial: a play of shadows that conceals the true reality behind it. ___4__. Sometimes the world can toggle back and forth between being more real and less real. Perhaps this observation should make us take more seriously the notion that reality comes in degrees.

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(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.

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