Based on the previous text, judge the following item.

In the excerpt ‘And we never connected the dots for women themselves to build the constituencies’ (second sentence of the last paragraph) the phrase ‘to build the constituencies’ functions as an adverb that modifies ‘connected’.

The text stresses the difference between the opinions of cave artists and of modern art scholars in terms of the concept of the artistic genius.

The author sides with those who take cave art to be a ‘great spiritual symbol’, as stated in the first paragraph.

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The text suggests that 20th-century scholars had an erroneous perspective on how cave art should be viewed.

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The author concludes that cave artists depicted humans as weak to show the preponderance megafauna had in those days.

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In the last sentence of the text, inserting a comma immediately after the first occurrence of “that” would make the sentence grammatically incorrect.

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In the expressions “unalloyed triumph” (first sentence of the text) and “sheer silliness” (first sentence of the second paragraph), the adjectives “unalloyed” and “sheer” convey similar meanings.

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By stating that the human figures in cave art are “self-effacing” (last sentence of the first paragraph), the author means that humans were virtually absent characters in cave paintings.

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As used in the third sentence of the first paragraph, the expression “most exacting class of critics” refers to critics who worry too much about being correct.

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In the fragment “most exacting class of critics, critics who are quick to (…)” (third sentence of the first paragraph), omitting the second occurrence of the word “critics” would maintain the grammar correctness of the sentence.

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By stating that he wants to show the reader “the lie of the land” (first sentence of the text), the author means that he wants to inform the reader of the rules he followed in writing the book.

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In the fragment “I have never believed that books for young people should differ from books for adults except for the fact that they must reckon with the most exacting class of critics” (third sentence of the first paragraph), the referent for the pronoun “they” is “adults”.

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In the last sentence of the text, the word “dog” has a similar meaning to trouble.

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The excerpt “lest the well-known masterpieces be crowded out by my own personal favourites” (second sentence of the second paragraph) could be, maintaining the coherence and correctness of the original, correctly replaced with to avoid leaving the well-known masterpieces out to fill the book with my own personal favourites.

Based on text II, judge whether the following statement is right (C) or wrong (E).

It can be correctly concluded from the excerpt “Praise is so much duller than criticism” (ninth sentence of the first paragraph) that the author wishes to write a book criticizing what he considers “monstrosities”.

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In “for them the familiar appearance” (third sentence of second paragraph), “them” refers to the people the book is meant for: “those who look for bearings in a new field”.

Regarding text III, judge whether the following statement is right (C) or wrong (E). 

The author of the text considers that, more than the competence of the applicants or their nationality, it is their political connections — who they know — that has the greatest impact on their chance of being recruited for international jobs.

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According to the text, reconciling the principle of equitable geographical distribution of recruits with that of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity was a legal obligation incumbent both on the Secretary-General of the League of Nations and the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

Regarding text III, judge whether the following statement is right (C) or wrong (E). 

The fragment “even at the expense of sheer quality” (last sentence of the second paragraph) could be, without harming the coherence of the text, replaced with even if this entails the choice of less qualified applicants.