Direction: In each of the following questions, a sentence with a blank is given, followed by five words labeled (A), (B), (C), (D), and (E). Choose the word that cannot fill the blank appropriately in the context of the passage.

Does biology determine destiny, or is society the dominant cause of masculine and feminine traits? In this spirited exchange, the psychologist Cordelia Fine and the evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven unpack the complex relationship between testosterone and human behaviour.
Fine emphasises variability, flexibility and context – seeing gender as shaped by social forces as much as it is by ___________ (A). By contrast, Hooven stresses consistent patterns; while ___________ (B) the influence of culture and the differences between individuals, she maintains that biology explains why certain sex-linked behaviours persist across cultures.
At stake in this debate is how we understand ourselves and organise our communities. Can we achieve equality by changing cultural norms, or must we accommodate biological realities that evolution has inscribed in our brains? As you read, notice how these scholars interpret the same evidence through fundamentally different frameworks – revealing why discussions about sex differences remain both scientifically complex and politically charged.
Risk-taking, dominance, aggressive jostling for status – many of us are familiar with the idea that these masculine traits can be largely chalked-up to __________ (C). Take this description of the dangerous, male-dominated environment of an oil platform in the 1980s, where one worker compared his colleagues to ‘a pack of lions’:

The guy that was in charge was the one who could basically out-perform and out-shout and out-intimidate all the others. That’s just how it worked out here on drilling rigs and in production. So those people went to the top, over other people’s bodies in some cases. But then something changed. In the early 1990s, the company overhauled their policies and practices on the rig to enhance safety and effectiveness – and, in doing so, inadvertently created an environment that ‘___________ (D)’ these men from displays of masculinity. This unexpected effect was documented by the organisational scholars Robin Ely and Debra Meyerson, who observed the pattern play out on two offshore oil platforms. For the first time, workers started to __________ (E) their own physical limits, admit their mistakes, and discuss their own and others’ emotions. A deck mechanic sent a classical music tape home for a coworker’s baby, saying that ‘it’s real important for them babies to listen to music like that. Real soothing.’ When a researcher tipped his chair back in a meeting, he was politely told: ‘That’s not safe.’ Men openly displayed fear when evacuated after 9/11. ‘We are a very different group now than we were when we first got together – kinder, gentler people,’ one production operator said.