Multiple choice

Find the Blank (v).

Directions: Choose the most appropriate word to fill the numbered blanks.

A blind man, having reclaimed (i) ____________ sight as the result of a remarkable operation, confessed the other day that he was so disappointed (ii) ____________ the world he saw that he wondered whether he was not (iii) ____________ when he was blind. Human beings (iv) ____________ of a different appearance and mould from those with which his imagination had (v) ____________ them. Everything apparently, from motor cars to flower gardens, (vi) ____________short of the glorious images he had made (vii) ____________ them. The gift of sight (viii) ____________ him merely disillusionment.

  1. endowed

  2. is endowing

  3. endows

  4. endow
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Explanation

The sentence structure is 'his imagination had [verb] them' where the verb refers to how his imagination had shaped/conceived human beings before he could see. We need the past participle form of 'endow' to complete the past perfect tense 'had endowed'. This means his imagination had 'endowed' (equipped/given) human beings with certain qualities in his mind.

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