In the following passage some of the words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
The “Sesame Street” spinoff (1) ______ to be the first Russian-language educational TV (2) ______ aimed specifically at preschoolers. The project (3) ______ support from both American and Russian government officials. “If we do not reform our (4) ______, we can hardly hope that we will reform our society,” (5) ______ Elena Lenskaya, a director in Russia’s Ministry of Education, during a 1992 U.S. congressional hearing on the planned adaptation.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.