Read the article. Four fragments have been removed from the text. Complete each gap (5.1.–5.4.) with the fragment which fits best and put the appropriate letter (A–E) in each gap. There is one fragment which you do not need to use.

WHY SUPERMAN DESERVES MORE RESPECT

The one foe that Superman has never vanquished in his long career isn’t Lex Luthor, Bizarro, or the alien consciousness known as Brainiac. No, his greatest enemy is something much more mundane: namely, a simple lack of respect. Even within his own stories, he’s too long had to put up with being mistaken for a bird or a plane. 5.1. This, to be blunt, is just wrong. Let us be clear: Superman is the ultimate superhero, and it’s time everyone recognized that fact.

It’s not that Superman was the first superhero, as such. You can trace his lineage back through earlier pulp characters, for instance Zorro, who used his dual identity to battle corruption and crime. There’s also Doc Savage and Gladiator, heroes with abilities beyond those of normal men. 5.2. However, he can never be fully integrated into the society he protects, being the outsider that he is. This is because, on a daily basis, he has to deal with the fact that he is the final survivor of his entire race and his entire social circle consists of people who only know him through work and pile their own overwhelming expectations on him.

As if that wasn’t enough, Superman has proven to be an almost endlessly flexible character, and one who’s proven himself to be easily recreated to serve different purposes for different audiences throughout his existence. 5.3. Subsequent years found him functioning as the patriarchal head of a metaphorical Superfamily and a transformative avatar of identity fluidity in the 1950s and ’60s, and a successful Super-Yuppie in the 1980s. Throughout those various portrayals, though, the core of Superman stayed true: that he was, at heart, an almost impossibly good man, a hero that never gives up, and always does the right thing. 5.4. But such thinking has nothing to do with the very notion of superheroes: these aren’t realistic characters; they’re idealized characters, ones created as purposeful and eager rejections of realism in favor of worlds filled with evil geniuses and impossible monsters.

abridged from http://entertainment.time.com