Directions: In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Shinzo Abe was a popular, even if ___(1)___, politician who was no stranger to controversies. But he was also one of the most consequentialist leaders of post-war Japan. Since his rise to power in 2006 until his ___(2)___ assassination last week, he remained a tall presence in Japan’s politics and his views reshaped the country’s global profile. When he became Prime Minister for the second time in 2012, Japan’s economy was in ___(3)___. A year earlier, an earthquake and tsunami had ___(4)___ havoc, killing up to 20,000 people. Its U.S.-reliant foreign and pacifist defense policies faced a new ___(5)___ with the rapid rise of China. Abe believed that Japan should first ___(6)___ its economy if it wanted to address other challenges. His economic program with “three arrows” — monetary easing, higher fiscal spending, and liberalization — or “Abenomics”, helped Japan come out of recession. His government oversaw the post-quake reconstruction, and in foreign policy, he adopted a more hawkish line that was unapologetic of Japan’s ___(7)___ imperial past. He wanted to rewrite the country’s U.S.-drafted post-war pacifist Constitution to allow the military to take a bigger ___(8)___ in national security. In 2013, as Prime Minister, he visited the Yasukuni Shrine, a ___(9)___ memorial for Japan’s war dead, including its war criminals. These actions ___(10)___ criticisms in the region, but at home, Abe used them to reshape the national security debate.