In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Chinoy’s criticism of Kissinger rests on ____(1)____ ice because it relies on a questionable and largely plagiarised work of secondary scholarship. Had he consulted other studies on Wang Xuance (incorrectly transliterated in the op-ed as “Wang Xuanze”), Chinoy would have___(2)____that the Tang emissary’s military action in India, which took place in 648, was not “apocryphal in terms of its scale and significance”. Quite to the contrary, it was _____(3)_____ significant event that resulted in the abdication, punishment ____(4)_____ incarceration of the Indian official/ruler who supposedly initiated the military confrontation. We know this through a close and ____(5)____ reading of Chinese language materials, which constitute a key source for Indian history of this period.