Discussion
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.
Half the planet's glaciers will have melted by 2100 even if humanity sticks to ______ set out in the Paris climate agreement, according to research. The scale and impacts of glacial loss are greater than ______ thought.
Answer: C
The pair is goals, previously. The Paris agreement sets out goals, meaning targets, and the scale of glacial loss is greater than previously thought, meaning thought earlier. Both words fit their blanks in sense and grammar.
‘Afore’ and ‘early’ are not natural before ‘thought’ in this sentence, ‘milestones’ are stages along the way rather than the aims an agreement sets out, and ‘formerly’ refers to a past state and not to an earlier belief, so option C is the best fit.
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