GRE Sample Test 5 Verbal Reasoning 2

Questions 19 to 20 refer to the passage below.
For each question, select one answer choice, unless the instructions state otherwise.

Some regional identities always have been partly the result of isolation. But I tend to think that other regional cultures flourish in their interaction with people of different minds around the world. We can see New England’s regional identities developing not from its distance,
5 but from its engagement with other people. New Englanders were much involved, through shipping and migration, with other cultures around the world. But that didn’t make them less of New England. They would travel around the world and establish their New England societies wherever they went, and their identities would be deepened by
10 it. It is partly the growth of global communications that makes people more conscious of their regional identities. It is not just a function of insularity.