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Question 6 : 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: Science has officially crowned us superior to our early-rising brethren.
Paragraph: My fellow night owls, grab a strong cup of coffee and gather around: I have great news. ___(1)___. For a long time, our kind has been unfairly maligned. Stereotyped as lazy and undisciplined. Told we ought to be morning larks. Advised to go to bed early so we can wake before 5am and run a marathon before breakfast like all high-flyers seem to do. Now, however, we are having the last laugh. ___(2)___. It may be a tad more complicated than that. A study published last week, which you may have already seen while scrolling at 1am, suggests that staying up late could be good for brain power. ___(3)___. Is this study a thinly veiled PR exercise conducted by a caffeine-pill company? Nope, it's legit. ___(4)___. Research led by academics at Imperial College London studied data on more than 26,000 people and found that "self-declared 'night owls' generally tend to have higher cognitive scores".

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Explanatory Answer

Slightly tricky question. The missing sentence says science has crowned night-owls superior to early-risers. This could relate to the "great news" mentioned in the sentence before blank 1. So, this looks like a possible answer. However, there is a decided disconnect between the sentence before and the sentence after blank 2. These sentences do not make sense right after each other for there is no explanation why having the last laugh is a 'tad more complicated than that'. Only by inserting the missing sentence in blank 2, we have a cogent paragraph. Night owls have the last laugh as science has crowned them superior to early-risers, but still there are a few considerations, as detailed in the lines that follow. So, blank 2 is the correct choice.

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Hence, the answer is 'Option 2'

Choice C is the correct answer.

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