Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1 in the given passage. I have a recurring dream. Actually, I have a few: one is about dism...

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 1 in the given passage.

I have a recurring dream. Actually, I have a few: one is about dismembering a body , I’d rather
not get into it, but the (1) ________ pertinent one is about college. It’s the end of the
semester, and I suddenly (2) ________ that there is a class I forgot to attend, ever, and now I
have to sit for the final exam. I wake up panicked, my GPA in peril. How could I have done
this? Why do I so (3) ________ dissatisfy myself? Then I remember I haven’t been in college
in more than a decade.
Someone with (4) ________ knowledge of my academic career might point out that this
nightmare scenario is not that far removed from my actual collegiate experience, and that at
certain times in my life, it did not take the magic of slumber to find me completely unprepared
for a final. And, well, (5) ________ of what may or may not be true of my personal scholastic
rigour, I suspect the school-stress dream is quite a common one.