Directions: There are 10 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one answer that best fits into the passage. In his essay George Orwell 1 by citing Bernard Shaw’s remark that people are more 2 today than they were in the Middle Ages. They 3 accept the opinions of experts without asking any questions themselves. Obviously Shaw 4 just in order to prove his point that we should not always fall back on the theories of well-known 5 . Rather, we should aim at finding out some things for ourselves. By way of illustration, Orwell 6 arguments against the Flat Earth and the Oval Earth theories, thus throwing 7 on the fact that much of our knowledge actually 8 authority rather than on reasoning or on experiment. Finally, Orwell draws his conclusion that ours is a 9 age partly because we have such an exceptionally heavy 10 of knowledge.