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This is a two-blank Text Completion question, so determine which blank is easier. Try starting with the first blank. Determine who/what the blank in the sentence is describing. The blank is describing the kind of species that the human race is. Now determine what else gives insight into the word for the blank. The sentence states that the façade of calm…is flimsy and ef ortlessly ruptured. The same-direction transition word as indicates that the blank agrees with the clue, so the human species must be “easily broken” or “weak.” Fragile is a good match for “broken,” so keep (A) Purposeful and daring are not good matches for “broken,” so eliminate (B) and (C). Begin work with the second blank by determining who/what the blank is describing. The blank is describing something that is flimsy and easily ruptured. The word anxiety gives further insight into the word for the blank as the transition word and indicates that the blank will match anxiety. Choice (D), terror, is extreme, so eliminate (D). Choice (E), vulnerability, is a good match for anxiety, so keep (E). Choice (F), humor, is the opposite of the expected word.