Read the text below. For each question (16-20), choose the answer 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 .
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) and Hayashi was an agricultural scientist. 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.
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