The next question refers to the following paragraph. select the transition that best fits the blank.

the kite festival once marked the arrival of spring in pakistan. people gathered with their handmade kites and battled over whose kite could fly .
competition was fierce. people spoke of nothing else in the days that admiring the winner and promising themselves that one day, their own kite would fly proudly over the town.
but, unfortunately that was the kite festival has been banned since 2007.

in sentence 3, select the transition that best fits the blank.

in the past
in the future
tomorrow
yesterday

i believe its "in the past" but im not sure

paine is arguying that they had tried everything before coming to the conclusion that they needed to fight for their freedom.

argument: "every quiet method for peace hath been ineffectual."

claim 1: "our prayers have been rejected with disdain; and only tended to convince us, that nothing flatters vanity, or confirms obstinacy in kings more than repeated petitioning and nothing hath contributed more than that very measure to make the kings of europe absolute."

claim 2: "wherefore, since nothing but blows will do, for god’s sake, let us come to a final separation, and not leave the next generation to be cutting throats, under the violated unmeaning names of parent and child."