Find out the appropriate word to fill blank (viii).

Directions: In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words/phrases are suggested, one of which best fits the blank appropriately.

There was a man who had four sons. He ____(i)____ his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a _____(ii)____, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in autumn. When they had all gone and come back, he _____(iii)_____ them together to ____(iv)_____ what they had seen. The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The second son said, “No! It was covered with green buds and full of promise.” The third son disagreed; he said it was laden with blossoms that ____(v)_____ so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ____(vi)_____ seen. The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment. The man then _____(vii)_____ to his sons that they all were right, because they had each seen but only one _____(viii)_____ in the tree’s life. He told them that you _____(ix)_____ judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the _____(x)_____ of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that comes from that life can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are over.