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.
When he died on 27 November 1953, Gladstone O'Neill was (1)______recognised as one of the major dramatists of the modern world. Four times a Pulitzer Prize-winner, he had also been (2)______the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature. His plays have been translated into most major languages and read by more people than those of (3)_____other playwright except W Shakespeare and maybe G Bernard Shaw. O'Neill was a puzzle to his friends - a genuinely shy, brooding, complicated man in whom (4)_____alternated with touching kindness. He was both, naive and worldly. One biographer found him "sentimental one instant, hard as nails the next." His widow, after 26 years with O'Neill, said, "To (5)_____his work you must understand the man, for the work and the man are one."
Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 3.
Option 1: none
Option 2: few
Option 3: any
Option 4: some
Correct Answer: any
Solution : The third option is the correct answer.
Any in this context is used to convey a sense of inclusivity, suggesting that O'Neill's popularity surpassed that of all other playwrights, except Shakespeare and possibly Bernard Shaw.
Therefore, the correct answer is any.
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