In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.
In a strange ------(1)-------- the production and the consumption of the event become cause for concern.---------(2)-----------wonders whether newer forms of “non­caring” or violence are appearing. Somehow, silence, even ------(3)-------, quietly suppresses a meditation on such events.-------------(4)--------------------a professor, I can recollect the number of occasions when my students have cried as we discussed such events in class.-----------(5)------------ society seems so indifferent.