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Select the phrase that most appropriately completes the text in blank (8).

Directions: The blank in the following paragraph mark deletions from the text. For the question, select the phrase that most appropriately completes the text.

Libertarians argue that laws making suicide a criminal act are both foolish and an unwarranted intrusion on individual conscience. With regard to the first, they point out that there is no penalty which the law can assess which inflicts greater injury than the crime itself. As for the second, they argue that it is no business of the state to prevent suicide, for whether it is right for a person to inflict fatal injury on himself as opposed to others is a matter between him and his God, one in which the state, by the terms of the Constitution, may not interfere. Such arguments, however, seem to me to be ill-conceived. In the first place, the libertarian makes the mistaken assumption that deference is the only goal of the law. I maintain that the laws we have proscribing suicide are ___(7)___.

By making it a crime to take any life even one's own we make a public announcement of our shared conviction that each person is unique and valuable. In the second place, while it must be conceded that the doctrine of the separation of church and state is a useful one, it need not be admitted that suicide is a crime ___(8)___,. And here we need not have recourse to the possibility that a potential suicide might, if given the opportunity, repent of his decision. Suicide inflicts a cost upon us all: the emotional cost on those close to the suicide; an economic cost in the form of a loss of production of a mature and trained member of the society which falls on us all; and a cost to humanity at large for the loss of a member of our community.

Select the phrase that most appropriately completes the text in blank (7).

Directions: The blank in the following paragraph mark deletions from the text. For the question, select the phrase that most appropriately completes the text.

Libertarians argue that laws making suicide a criminal act are both foolish and an unwarranted intrusion on individual conscience. With regard to the first, they point out that there is no penalty which the law can assess which inflicts greater injury than the crime itself. As for the second, they argue that it is no business of the state to prevent suicide, for whether it is right for a person to inflict fatal injury on himself as opposed to others is a matter between him and his God, one in which the state, by the terms of the Constitution, may not interfere. Such arguments, however, seem to me to be ill-conceived. In the first place, the libertarian makes the mistaken assumption that deference is the only goal of the law. I maintain that the laws we have proscribing suicide are ___(7)___.

By making it a crime to take any life even one's own we make a public announcement of our shared conviction that each person is unique and valuable. In the second place, while it must be conceded that the doctrine of the separation of church and state is a useful one, it need not be admitted that suicide is a crime ___(8)___,. And here we need not have recourse to the possibility that a potential suicide might, if given the opportunity, repent of his decision. Suicide inflicts a cost upon us all: the emotional cost on those close to the suicide; an economic cost in the form of a loss of production of a mature and trained member of the society which falls on us all; and a cost to humanity at large for the loss of a member of our community.

Directions: In the following question, four statements with blanks are given. Choose the option which fills in the blanks, the maximum number of times.

A. His uncle deals ________ real estate.

B. The performance of the company is not ________ the mark. C. He was sacked ________ the internal audit report had indicted him severely. D. The speech was humorous ________ content and terse in application.

Directions: In the following question, four statements with blanks are given. Choose the option which fills in the blanks, the maximum number of times.

A. The thief was caught easily as he ________ the mistake of leaving his purse behind. B. The two schools of thought gradually ________ into one. C. The suspect was ________ prowling around here last night. D. She eventually relented and ________ the desired promise.

Directions: In the following question, four statements with blanks are given. Choose the option which fills in the blanks, the maximum number of times.

A. You should care ________ your old grandparents because one day you will need the same from your grandchildren. B. The ordinance was promulgated ________ hasten the process of share market automation. C. ________ a buoyant economy, a high domestic savings rate is required. D. The apathetic government officials made him run ________ pillar to post.