In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Readers have been (1) _________ conditioned that they feel embarrassed to admit that they find it hard (2) _________ stomach the work of a literary giant for fear it would betray their plebian taste. The (3) __________ is that a few read, and fewer enjoy, the novels of those who sit on the literary pedestal. We have (4) _________ ourselves to be persuaded that a book with a story can't be quite in the same class as a book that leaves us to (5) __________ what is unsaid.

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

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) ___________ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) __________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ___________ detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him – for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) __________ figure, but of a unique (5) ___________ of flesh and blood.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Readers have been (1) _________ conditioned that they feel embarrassed to admit that they find it hard (2) _________ stomach the work of a literary giant for fear it would betray their plebian taste. The (3) __________ is that a few read, and fewer enjoy, the novels of those who sit on the literary pedestal. We have (4) _________ ourselves to be persuaded that a book with a story can't be quite in the same class as a book that leaves us to (5) __________ what is unsaid.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Readers have been (1) _________ conditioned that they feel embarrassed to admit that they find it hard (2) _________ stomach the work of a literary giant for fear it would betray their plebian taste. The (3) __________ is that a few read, and fewer enjoy, the novels of those who sit on the literary pedestal. We have (4) _________ ourselves to be persuaded that a book with a story can't be quite in the same class as a book that leaves us to (5) __________ what is unsaid.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Readers have been (1) _________ conditioned that they feel embarrassed to admit that they find it hard (2) _________ stomach the work of a literary giant for fear it would betray their plebian taste. The (3) __________ is that a few read, and fewer enjoy, the novels of those who sit on the literary pedestal. We have (4) _________ ourselves to be persuaded that a book with a story can't be quite in the same class as a book that leaves us to (5) __________ what is unsaid.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) ___________ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) __________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ___________ detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him – for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) __________ figure, but of a unique (5) ___________ of flesh and blood.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Readers have been (1) _________ conditioned that they feel embarrassed to admit that they find it hard (2) _________ stomach the work of a literary giant for fear it would betray their plebian taste. The (3) __________ is that a few read, and fewer enjoy, the novels of those who sit on the literary pedestal. We have (4) _________ ourselves to be persuaded that a book with a story can't be quite in the same class as a book that leaves us to (5) __________ what is unsaid.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
The contract (1) __________ the author and the reader is a game. And the game is one of the greatest inventions (2) __________ Western civilisation: the game of telling stories, inventing characters and creating the (3) ___________ paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled (4) ____________, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be (5) _____________ and understood.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
The contract (1) __________ the author and the reader is a game. And the game is one of the greatest inventions (2) __________ Western civilisation: the game of telling stories, inventing characters and creating the (3) ___________ paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled (4) ____________, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be (5) _____________ and understood.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) ___________ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) __________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ___________ detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him – for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) __________ figure, but of a unique (5) ___________ of flesh and blood.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
The contract (1) __________ the author and the reader is a game. And the game is one of the greatest inventions (2) __________ Western civilisation: the game of telling stories, inventing characters and creating the (3) ___________ paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled (4) ____________, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be (5) _____________ and understood.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
The contract (1) __________ the author and the reader is a game. And the game is one of the greatest inventions (2) __________ Western civilisation: the game of telling stories, inventing characters and creating the (3) ___________ paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled (4) ____________, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be (5) _____________ and understood.

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

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) ___________ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) __________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ___________ detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him – for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) __________ figure, but of a unique (5) ___________ of flesh and blood.

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

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Novelists when they write novels tend to take an almost god-like attitude (1) ___________ their subject, pretending to a total comprehension of the story, a man's life, (2) __________ they can therefore recount as God Himself might, nothing standing between them and the naked truth, the entire story meaningful in (3) ___________ detail. I am as little able to do this as the novelist is, even though my story is more important to me than any novelist's is to him – for this is my story; it is the story of a man, not of an invented, or possible, or idealised or otherwise (4) __________ figure, but of a unique (5) ___________ of flesh and blood.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
The contract (1) __________ the author and the reader is a game. And the game is one of the greatest inventions (2) __________ Western civilisation: the game of telling stories, inventing characters and creating the (3) ___________ paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled (4) ____________, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be (5) _____________ and understood.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is (1) ______________ the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other (2) _____________ than this: that the one, the Novel, cloaks its manners (3) ______________ the disguise of invented characters, while the other, History, (4) _______________ names and addresses. Only, the Novel (5) ___________ much deeper than History.

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

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
I would uncover the story that lay (1) ______ between the lines of the men’s exploits. Better still, I (2) ______ one of them tell it herself, with all her joys and doubts, her struggles and her triumphs, her heartbreaks, her achievements, the unique female way (3) ______ which she sees her world and her place in it. And who could be (4) ______ for this than Panchaali? It is her life, her voice, her questions, and her vision that I invite you (5) ______ 'The Palace of Illusions'.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No. 3.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is (1) ______________ the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other (2) _____________ than this: that the one, the Novel, cloaks its manners (3) ______________ the disguise of invented characters, while the other, History, (4) _______________ names and addresses. Only, the Novel (5) ___________ much deeper than History.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is (1) ______________ the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other (2) _____________ than this: that the one, the Novel, cloaks its manners (3) ______________ the disguise of invented characters, while the other, History, (4) _______________ names and addresses. Only, the Novel (5) ___________ much deeper than History.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
I would uncover the story that lay (1) ______ between the lines of the men’s exploits. Better still, I (2) ______ one of them tell it herself, with all her joys and doubts, her struggles and her triumphs, her heartbreaks, her achievements, the unique female way (3) ______ which she sees her world and her place in it. And who could be (4) ______ for this than Panchaali? It is her life, her voice, her questions, and her vision that I invite you (5) ______ 'The Palace of Illusions'.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No. 1.

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
I would uncover the story that lay (1) ______ between the lines of the men’s exploits. Better still, I (2) ______ one of them tell it herself, with all her joys and doubts, her struggles and her triumphs, her heartbreaks, her achievements, the unique female way (3) ______ which she sees her world and her place in it. And who could be (4) ______ for this than Panchaali? It is her life, her voice, her questions, and her vision that I invite you (5) ______ 'The Palace of Illusions'.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No. 2.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is (1) ______________ the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other (2) _____________ than this: that the one, the Novel, cloaks its manners (3) ______________ the disguise of invented characters, while the other, History, (4) _______________ names and addresses. Only, the Novel (5) ___________ much deeper than History.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
I would uncover the story that lay (1) ______ between the lines of the men’s exploits. Better still, I (2) ______ one of them tell it herself, with all her joys and doubts, her struggles and her triumphs, her heartbreaks, her achievements, the unique female way (3) ______ which she sees her world and her place in it. And who could be (4) ______ for this than Panchaali? It is her life, her voice, her questions, and her vision that I invite you (5) ______ 'The Palace of Illusions'.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No. 4.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
If writers only dared to dare, a Suetonius or a Tacitus of the Novel could exist, for the Novel is (1) ______________ the history of manners, turned into a story and a play, as is History itself often enough. And there is no other (2) _____________ than this: that the one, the Novel, cloaks its manners (3) ______________ the disguise of invented characters, while the other, History, (4) _______________ names and addresses. Only, the Novel (5) ___________ much deeper than History.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
I would uncover the story that lay (1) ______ between the lines of the men’s exploits. Better still, I (2) ______ one of them tell it herself, with all her joys and doubts, her struggles and her triumphs, her heartbreaks, her achievements, the unique female way (3) ______ which she sees her world and her place in it. And who could be (4) ______ for this than Panchaali? It is her life, her voice, her questions, and her vision that I invite you (5) ______ 'The Palace of Illusions'.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No. 5.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not (1) _____________ that in which I no longer believe, (2) ____________ it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to (3) _______________ myself in some mode of life or art as (4) _____________ as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I (5) ____________ myself to use: silence, exile and cunning.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not (1) _____________ that in which I no longer believe, (2) ____________ it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to (3) _______________ myself in some mode of life or art as (4) _____________ as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I (5) ____________ myself to use: silence, exile and cunning.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not (1) _____________ that in which I no longer believe, (2) ____________ it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to (3) _______________ myself in some mode of life or art as (4) _____________ as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I (5) ____________ myself to use: silence, exile and cunning.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

As writers we live life twice, like (1) _________ cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest (2) __________ again. We have a second chance (3) _________ biting into our experience and examining it. This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is (4) __________ you, and out of care and compassion for (5) __________ moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

As writers we live life twice, like (1) _________ cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest (2) __________ again. We have a second chance (3) _________ biting into our experience and examining it. This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is (4) __________ you, and out of care and compassion for (5) __________ moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 4.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

As writers we live life twice, like (1) _________ cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest (2) __________ again. We have a second chance (3) _________ biting into our experience and examining it. This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is (4) __________ you, and out of care and compassion for (5) __________ moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

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

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

As writers we live life twice, like (1) _________ cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest (2) __________ again. We have a second chance (3) _________ biting into our experience and examining it. This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is (4) __________ you, and out of care and compassion for (5) __________ moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 2.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not (1) _____________ that in which I no longer believe, (2) ____________ it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to (3) _______________ myself in some mode of life or art as (4) _____________ as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I (5) ____________ myself to use: silence, exile and cunning.

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

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

As writers we live life twice, like (1) _________ cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest (2) __________ again. We have a second chance (3) _________ biting into our experience and examining it. This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is (4) __________ you, and out of care and compassion for (5) __________ moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 5.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
I went on (1) _________ trying to 'find out how to'; but I wrote two or three novels without feeling that I had made (2) _________ progress. It was not until I wrote ‘Ethan Frome’ that I suddenly felt the artisan's full (3) _________ of his implements. When ‘Ethan Frome’ first appeared, I was (4) _________ criticised by the reviewers for what was considered the clumsy structure of the tale. I had pondered long on this structure, had felt its peculiar difficulties, and possible awkwardness, but could think of no (5) _________ which would serve as well in the given case: and though I am far from thinking ‘Ethan Frome’ is my best novel, and am bored and even exasperated when I am told that it is, I am still sure that its structure is not its weak point.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 4.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
I went on (1) _________ trying to 'find out how to'; but I wrote two or three novels without feeling that I had made (2) _________ progress. It was not until I wrote ‘Ethan Frome’ that I suddenly felt the artisan's full (3) _________ of his implements. When ‘Ethan Frome’ first appeared, I was (4) _________ criticised by the reviewers for what was considered the clumsy structure of the tale. I had pondered long on this structure, had felt its peculiar difficulties, and possible awkwardness, but could think of no (5) _________ which would serve as well in the given case: and though I am far from thinking ‘Ethan Frome’ is my best novel, and am bored and even exasperated when I am told that it is, I am still sure that its structure is not its weak point.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 3.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
I went on (1) _________ trying to 'find out how to'; but I wrote two or three novels without feeling that I had made (2) _________ progress. It was not until I wrote ‘Ethan Frome’ that I suddenly felt the artisan's full (3) _________ of his implements. When ‘Ethan Frome’ first appeared, I was (4) _________ criticised by the reviewers for what was considered the clumsy structure of the tale. I had pondered long on this structure, had felt its peculiar difficulties, and possible awkwardness, but could think of no (5) _________ which would serve as well in the given case: and though I am far from thinking ‘Ethan Frome’ is my best novel, and am bored and even exasperated when I am told that it is, I am still sure that its structure is not its weak point.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 1.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
I went on (1) _________ trying to 'find out how to'; but I wrote two or three novels without feeling that I had made (2) _________ progress. It was not until I wrote ‘Ethan Frome’ that I suddenly felt the artisan's full (3) _________ of his implements. When ‘Ethan Frome’ first appeared, I was (4) _________ criticised by the reviewers for what was considered the clumsy structure of the tale. I had pondered long on this structure, had felt its peculiar difficulties, and possible awkwardness, but could think of no (5) _________ which would serve as well in the given case: and though I am far from thinking ‘Ethan Frome’ is my best novel, and am bored and even exasperated when I am told that it is, I am still sure that its structure is not its weak point.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 5.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
I went on (1) _________ trying to 'find out how to'; but I wrote two or three novels without feeling that I had made (2) _________ progress. It was not until I wrote ‘Ethan Frome’ that I suddenly felt the artisan's full (3) _________ of his implements. When ‘Ethan Frome’ first appeared, I was (4) _________ criticised by the reviewers for what was considered the clumsy structure of the tale. I had pondered long on this structure, had felt its peculiar difficulties, and possible awkwardness, but could think of no (5) _________ which would serve as well in the given case: and though I am far from thinking ‘Ethan Frome’ is my best novel, and am bored and even exasperated when I am told that it is, I am still sure that its structure is not its weak point.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 2.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Redwing had read (1) _________ that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best (2) _________ for a novelist. He had said “an unhappy childhood”. Redwing had enjoyed a fine time growing up, but he (3) _________ if this whole (4) _________ was unfolding more like a novel, and would be (5) _________ on one person, one character, the guy in charge: him. Maybe you got a happy childhood and then an unhappy adulthood, and that’s how novels worked.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 4.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk (1) _______ in the poet's company to be compelled to describe to him a poem he was (2) _______ of. It would be a monologue of sorts, the self-contemplation of a student on a summer afternoon who is reading Euphuise. The poem itself would be a subtle (3) _______ of euphuisms, translating the heat, the day, the student's concerns, into symmetrical posies; translating even his (4) _______ and boredom with that famously foolish book into a euphuism.
The poet nodded his big head in a sympathetic, rhythmic way as this was (5) _______ to him, then told him that there are two kinds of poems. There is the kind you write; there is the kind you talk about in bars. Both kinds have value and both are poems; but it's fatal to confuse them.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 5.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Redwing had read (1) _________ that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best (2) _________ for a novelist. He had said “an unhappy childhood”. Redwing had enjoyed a fine time growing up, but he (3) _________ if this whole (4) _________ was unfolding more like a novel, and would be (5) _________ on one person, one character, the guy in charge: him. Maybe you got a happy childhood and then an unhappy adulthood, and that’s how novels worked.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 3.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Redwing had read (1) _________ that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best (2) _________ for a novelist. He had said “an unhappy childhood”. Redwing had enjoyed a fine time growing up, but he (3) _________ if this whole (4) _________ was unfolding more like a novel, and would be (5) _________ on one person, one character, the guy in charge: him. Maybe you got a happy childhood and then an unhappy adulthood, and that’s how novels worked.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 2.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk (1) _______ in the poet's company to be compelled to describe to him a poem he was (2) _______ of. It would be a monologue of sorts, the self-contemplation of a student on a summer afternoon who is reading Euphuise. The poem itself would be a subtle (3) _______ of euphuisms, translating the heat, the day, the student's concerns, into symmetrical posies; translating even his (4) _______ and boredom with that famously foolish book into a euphuism.
The poet nodded his big head in a sympathetic, rhythmic way as this was (5) _______ to him, then told him that there are two kinds of poems. There is the kind you write; there is the kind you talk about in bars. Both kinds have value and both are poems; but it's fatal to confuse them.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 1.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk (1) _______ in the poet's company to be compelled to describe to him a poem he was (2) _______ of. It would be a monologue of sorts, the self-contemplation of a student on a summer afternoon who is reading Euphuise. The poem itself would be a subtle (3) _______ of euphuisms, translating the heat, the day, the student's concerns, into symmetrical posies; translating even his (4) _______ and boredom with that famously foolish book into a euphuism.
The poet nodded his big head in a sympathetic, rhythmic way as this was (5) _______ to him, then told him that there are two kinds of poems. There is the kind you write; there is the kind you talk about in bars. Both kinds have value and both are poems; but it's fatal to confuse them.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 2.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk (1) _______ in the poet's company to be compelled to describe to him a poem he was (2) _______ of. It would be a monologue of sorts, the self-contemplation of a student on a summer afternoon who is reading Euphuise. The poem itself would be a subtle (3) _______ of euphuisms, translating the heat, the day, the student's concerns, into symmetrical posies; translating even his (4) _______ and boredom with that famously foolish book into a euphuism.
The poet nodded his big head in a sympathetic, rhythmic way as this was (5) _______ to him, then told him that there are two kinds of poems. There is the kind you write; there is the kind you talk about in bars. Both kinds have value and both are poems; but it's fatal to confuse them.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 4.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Redwing had read (1) _________ that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best (2) _________ for a novelist. He had said “an unhappy childhood”. Redwing had enjoyed a fine time growing up, but he (3) _________ if this whole (4) _________ was unfolding more like a novel, and would be (5) _________ on one person, one character, the guy in charge: him. Maybe you got a happy childhood and then an unhappy adulthood, and that’s how novels worked.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 1.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Redwing had read (1) _________ that one of his favourite writers, Ernest Hemingway, had been asked what was the best (2) _________ for a novelist. He had said “an unhappy childhood”. Redwing had enjoyed a fine time growing up, but he (3) _________ if this whole (4) _________ was unfolding more like a novel, and would be (5) _________ on one person, one character, the guy in charge: him. Maybe you got a happy childhood and then an unhappy adulthood, and that’s how novels worked.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 5.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk (1) _______ in the poet's company to be compelled to describe to him a poem he was (2) _______ of. It would be a monologue of sorts, the self-contemplation of a student on a summer afternoon who is reading Euphuise. The poem itself would be a subtle (3) _______ of euphuisms, translating the heat, the day, the student's concerns, into symmetrical posies; translating even his (4) _______ and boredom with that famously foolish book into a euphuism.
The poet nodded his big head in a sympathetic, rhythmic way as this was (5) _______ to him, then told him that there are two kinds of poems. There is the kind you write; there is the kind you talk about in bars. Both kinds have value and both are poems; but it's fatal to confuse them.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 3.

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The beginning of the story is (1)______ in its presentation but (2)______ the style eases out and becomes haunting in its simplicity. The author brings out the human elements in his story. This common element of sympathy and sacrifice is given a new (3)_____ by the old artist who shows by his last desperate act that one can be a hero for one day if only one cares (4)______. O Henry’s treatment of his material is balanced and controlled, a fine (5)______ of humour and pathos.

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