There seemed to be very little reason for hope that the Mudville team would win the game. They were going to the bottom of the ninth inning, trailing by two runs, and there were two outs. , their slugger "Mighty Casey" could maybe save the day for Mudville, if he got a chance to come to the plate. , in order for Casey to be given this opportunity, the two hitters before him would have to reach base.
Which two transition words would work best for these two blanks in the paragraph?
A) First; Second
B) Of course; However
C) Interestingly; Although
D) Mysteriously; Desperately

Michel Sifre was a French chronobiologist who studied the relationship between time and living organisms. He conducted a self-experimentation in 1962.

In his experimentation, he spent two months living in total isolation in a cave - had no acess to calendar, clock or even sun. In a short while, his memory deteriorated since there was no one to talk to, no book to read to impress itself upon his memory. It got to a point, he stopped being able to remember what took place a day before. As the days went by, Sifre became effectively amnesic, he could not sleep very - he would stay awake for thirty-six straight hours in some days. The outcome of his self-experimentation was severe.

By the time his experimentation was to wrap up in September 14, it was only August 20 in his journal. He only thought a month has just passed.