In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank. Technology has revolutionised the way (1)____ live. From communication to transportation, it has (2)______ our lives easier and more efficient. However, there are also (3)_____ associated with excessive reliance on technology. One of the major concerns is the (4)______ of personal privacy in the digital age. Additionally, there is a growing (5)_______ about the impact of technology on job security.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 1.
we
The sentence: ‘Technology has revolutionised the way (1)____ live.’
The decisive clue lies in the next sentence: ‘it has made our lives easier’. The possessive our corresponds to the subject pronoun we, so consistency of person requires we in the blank. A cloze passage must keep one point of view throughout.
The sense agrees too: the passage speaks about humanity in general, which is exactly what we conveys.
Why the others fail:
I — narrows the statement to the writer alone, contradicting a general claim about technology and society.
You — addresses the reader only, and would clash with the later our.
They — excludes the writer and reader from the group affected, which again does not match ‘our lives’.
Method for cloze passages: read at least one sentence beyond the blank. Pronoun blanks are almost always settled by a pronoun elsewhere in the paragraph.
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What would come in place of 1
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