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Sentence Correction Mixed Practice - I
The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body out of the bed, but he had not seen this lower part, and could not imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive.
The sentence is referring to a person trying to move the lower part of his own body and it is trying to emphasise the fact that he has not seen it so never needs to be used in preference to not. The initial construct being in simple past would require continuation of the same so looked like is to be preferred. Hence (2).