Section A
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
There’s a widely-accepted line of thinking, especially in 2019, that says the people and things we love will eventually let us down.
It’s never an if, always a when. So our heroes will inevitably turn out to be trash monsters. Our favorite bands will enter an experimental phase, even though no one asked them to. And our favorite TV shows will (21) fail to reach greater heights, but they won’t even come close to the same level of success they once had.
It was with this cynical mentality (22)