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(1) Yet, despite these technical developments, photographs still remain powerful because they are reminders of the people and things we care about.

(2) Images, after all, are surrogates carried into battle by a soldier or by a traveller on holiday.

(3) Photographs, be they digital or traditional, exist to remind us of the absent, the beloved, and the dead.

(4) In the new era of the digital image, the images also have a greater potential for fostering falsehood and trickery, perpetuating fictions that seem so real we cannot tell the difference.

(5) Anyway, human nature being what it is, little time has passed after photography's inventions became means of living life through images.

Solution: -

The essence of the paragraph is Photographs still have some allure, in spite of going digital. The key word is 'Nevertheless 'at the beginning of the paragraph. This resonates with 'yet' at the beginning of option 1 and completes the paragraph logically. The paragraph starts with the core idea, moves on to state how the technology behind creating photographs has evolved, and concludes by coming back to the core idea.

Let's evaluate the other 4 other options. Option 2 adds new data with 'soldier' and 'traveller', and option 3 with 'beloved' and 'dead' They merely extend the paragraph without completing it. Option 4 could be a good option, except that it does not accommodate 'nevertheless' given at the start of the paragraph. Option 5 too adds a new (tangential) idea which extends the paragraph instead of concluding it. Option 1 is the reason why the paragraph is written - to communicate that 'photographs are still powerful'. Hence, the correct answer is option 1.

Try implementing these strategies in your next set of Mock CATs, and see if your conviction and scores don't improve.

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