Multiple choice

The paradox of big weather: it makes people feel important even while it dramatizes their insignificance. In some ways, extreme weather is a brief moral equivalent of war as stimulating as war can sometimes be _____________________.

What is the most critical completion of the passage?

  1. and invariably as all-encompassing

  2. and as whimsical at the same time

  3. at a larger scale though

  4. as if it were a war of elements against the lesser mortals

  5. though without most of the carnage
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The paradox continues. Extreme weather, like war, may be fascinating but will make us look small as it is whimsical. Also, by using 'as stimulating' and 'as whimsical', the grammatical correctness is maintained.

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