Task 4
Questions 16-20
Read the text below.
For each question (16-20), choose the answer (A-F) that best completes the sentence.
There is one letter that you do not need. Mark your answer on the answer sheet.
There is an example at the beginning $(\mathbf{0} \rightarrow \mathbf{G})$.
Japanese eco revolutionist
The Japanese have long been a very environmentally aware nation. When Haru Hayashi was 24 years old, he had a sudden idea that would set his life on a new track and change the world. This was in 1937, (0) _______. He was working as an agricultural customs inspector (16) _______. Lying in his hospital bed, an existential crisis took hold of him (17) _______. He could barely work, and he thought that nothing would change. Then, early one morning, it dawned on him.
He quit his job and returned to the family farm, (18) _______. The essence of Hayashi's insight was the emptiness of human knowledge and effort. Cultivating his father's fruit trees, (19) _______. His approach was not to ask himself what more he could do to improve the produce of his trees, rather what practices he could do without. Nature, he believed, was a complete and unified whole, (20) _______. He developed a profound understanding of the ecosystem he worked in and learned how to flow with nature.
16) _______.
17) _______.
18) _______.
19) _______.
20) _______.