Read the passage. Choose the best answer from options A, B, C, and D.
The Reign of Terror during the French Revolution began in June 1793 and lasted until July 1794. During this time, King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette (__1__) many intellectuals, nobles, and politicians were put to death for crimes against liberty. During this gruesome year, ordinary townsfolk would gather in the Place de la Revolution fighting for the best view. An (__2__) 15,000 to 40,000 people had a date with Madame Guillotine during this period of time.
Before the French Revolution, criminals sentenced to death were burnt at the stake, hanged, or decapitated with a stroke of a sword. The (__3__) sometimes took repeated strikes and was very painful for the victim and the relatives watching. Dr Guillotin, a respected doctor, recognized that there was a need for a humane form of (__4__). To this end, he introduced a device that had been in use since the 13th century in other parts of Europe. (__5__) for beheading, this tall, wooden structure with a heavy blade would come into use and later be renamed the guillotine.
More than a hundred years after the end of the French Revolution, some people felt the guillotine inhumane because the head briefly (__6__) after the blade fell. Scientists studied the head of an executed man and found no evidence of it being able to feel or (__7__) after being cut off. Madame Guillotine was retired once and for all in 1977.
1 | A) inclusive | B) other than | C) but also | D) as well as |
2 | A) estimates | B) estimated | C) estimating | D) estimation |
3 | A) later | B) formal | C) latter | D) former |
4 | A) execution | B) communication | C) interaction | D) transportation |
5 | A) Use | B) Used | C) To use | D) By using |
6 | A) gave in | B) broke out | C) lived on | D) passed away |
7 | A) react | B) reside | C) recycle | D) refund |
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