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. 1.