In the given passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage intently and choose the most appropriate option to fill in each blank:
In contrast to earthquakes or wars, other violence is insidious, playing itself out over decades smog, poisoned water, eroded soil. These are not shocks but creeping disasters. Such damage has been described as 'slow violence,' not because it is less profound, but because it is less spectacular. It does not have the dramatic images that grab the public eye. It is therefore frequently (1) _____ in media reporting, policy action, and public debate.
This invisibility is not an accident. Economies that profit from such destruction spend a lot on public relations, lobbying, and research camouflage. They present agony as the byproduct of progress or a technical glitch and not as systemic neglect. Agony is reported to victims as having no connection, their contexts misinterpreted. This repetitive denial (2) _____ the very possibility for acknowledgment.
What makes slow violence so insidious is its unequal distribution. It hurts most those who have the least political power—rural poor, indigenous peoples, urban minorities. The privileged will never lay eyes on the toxins, but the marginalized inhale them. Without so much as a mention of this violence, resistance will continue to be fragmented and justice delayed. It takes more than policy to solve it—it takes a new kind of attention: slow noticing, slow journalism, slow solidarity. These are not positions of passivity but radical acts of care. They (3) _____ the rhythms of harm and provide room for grief, witness, and repair.
Most legal systems are, however, constructed to address the spectacular, rather than the smoldering. At the point when damage is apparent, accountability mechanisms usually have not worked. Thus, we need to rethink time, evidence, and harm in law and science. Otherwise, the engine of justice will go on to (4) _____ perpetuate the same harm it is meant to heal, oblivious to what happens too slowly to be noticed. Only by reimagining violence itself not as a high-drama event but as an erosive force can we start to map courses toward healing that are strong, equitable, and (5) _____ resilient.
What should come in the place of blank number 3?
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Correct answer: B
Explanation
Correct Answer: trace
Explanation
• The sentence discusses how proactive approaches like 'slow noticing' and 'slow journalism' act as radical forms of care that uncover and follow the gradual patterns of damage over time.
• Trace means to track, follow, or outline the course and development of something. It fits the positive and investigative role of uncovering overlooked harm.
• Words like replicate, mimic, or reinforce imply copying, repeating, or strengthening the harm, which contradicts the healing and witness-bearing context of the sentence.