Question: There is a sentence that is missing in the paragraph below. Look at the paragraph and decide in which blank (option 1, 2, 3, or 4) the following sentence would best fit.
Sentence: Having made citizens more and less knowledgeable than their predecessors, the Internet has proved to be both a blessing and a curse.
Paragraph: Never before has a population, nearly all of whom has enjoyed at a least a secondary school education, been exposed to so much information, whether in newspapers and magazines or through YouTube, Google, and Facebook. ___(1)___.
The given paragraph talks about wether internet has made people or more knowledgeable or less.
The given sentence gives us a balance between the both sides and hence the tone of the sentence is that of conclusion.
Blank (1): "Yet, it is ...", the statement after the blank is contrast of the statement before the blank. Hence, the given sentence cannot fit in blank (1).
Blank (2): Both the statements before and after blank (2) talk about impact of information availablity on students and hence the given sentence will be a misfit in blank (2).
Blank (3): The pronoun 'It' if the statement after blank refers to the noun 'readily available infromation' and hence the given sentence will be a misfit in this position as well.
∴ Blank (4) is the best place for the given sentence.
Hence, option (d).