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Question : Comprehension:
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 had a happy childhood and then an unhappy adulthood, and that's how novels worked.

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

Option 1: wasted

Option 2: wondered

Option 3: wandered

Option 4: welded


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Answer (1)
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Correct Answer: wondered


Solution : The correct choice is the second option .

In this context, wondered means that Redwing was contemplating or thinking about whether the unfolding events resembled a novel. He was pondering or questioning this possibility. The word wondered means to have thoughts of curiosity or doubt, often involving questioning or pondering about something.

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