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Question 1 : There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide where (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.

Sentence: Comprehending a wide range of emotions, Renaissance music nevertheless portrayed all emotions in a balanced and moderate fashion.
Paragraph: A volume of translated Italian madrigals were published in London during the year of 1588. This sudden public interest facilitated a surge of English Madrigal writing as well as a spurt of other secular music writing and publication. ___(1)___. This music boom lasted for thirty years and was as much a golden age of music as British literature was with Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth I. ___(2)___. The rebirth in both literature and music originated in Italy and migrated to England; the English madrigal became more humorous and lighter in England as compared to Italy. Renaissance music was mostly polyphonic in texture. ___(3)___. Extreme use of and contrasts in dynamics, rhythm, and tone colour do not occur. ___(4)___. The rhythms in Renaissance music tend to have a smooth, soft flow instead of a sharp, well-defined pulse of accents.

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Explanatory Answer

The missing sentence describes the nature of Renaissance music, so we have to look for the blank that relates to this idea.
The paragraph begins by describing how public interest in music bloomed during the Renaissance. Blank 1 is placed between two sentences that are tightly linked, as both relate to the music boom seen during the said period. So, blank 1 is ruled out.
Blank 2, too, is placed between two sentences that relate to history and are logically connected. So, blank 2 is out.
Now, the sentence before blank 3 describes the nature of Renaissance music- it was mostly polyphonic in nature. The sentence after 3 also describes how the music was. So, blank 3 is a good fit for the missing sentence.
Moving on, we see that blank 4 is also between two sentences that describe Renaissance music. But looking at the tenses of the sentences before and after blank 4, we see that these are in the simple present tense while the missing sentence is in the past tense (same as the sentence before blank 3). So, the missing sentence fits better in blank 3 than 4.

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Hence, the answer is 'Option 3'

Choice D is the correct answer.

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