Directions: Select the most appropriate fillers for the blanks such that the sentence makes coherent sense.

In a way, science might be described as ___________ thinking applied to nature; we are looking for natural conspiracies for connection among apparently ________ data.

Semi-colon is the operative sign in the sentence; which implies that the second part of the sentence is an explanation to the first part. ‘Conspiracies’ in the second part of the sentence provides clue for the first blank. Only among different or distinct data do we will look for connections, which are provided by the field of science. The filler has to be negative. Then we are looking for connections among apparently unconnected data. ‘Disparate’ (different, dissimilar, diverse) in option (4) means just the same. Therefore, it fits our prediction for the second blank. Hence, (4) is the answer.