Multiple choice

Directions: The last sentence in the following passage has been deleted. Select the sentence, out of the available options, that best suits the end of the passage.

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,

  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 passage presents a paradox. The positive impact accompanies the negative. 'Stimulating' is a positive trait. So we have to look for a negative contrast. This is presented only by (2).

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