Multiple choice

Directions: The following question contains paragraph with sentence or phrase missing indicated parenthetically. From the alternatives, select the sentence or phrase that best provides the missing link.

There are people walking among us who don't care for works of fiction. For them, make-believe makes little sense in a world that is real and far more interesting than (____). In other words they take Oscar Wilde's dictum, “All art is quite useless”, quite seriously.

  1. the stories and novels of the yore

  2. the contrast provided by fact and fiction

  3. even the greatest work of art

  4. the trivial pursuits of a poet's or a storyteller's imagination.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

(4) “Far more interesting” than the trivial pursuits of a poet's or a storyteller's imagination; (1) is rather restrictive, (2) unrelated, (3) rather extreme.

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