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 4.
Option 1: failure
Option 2: success
Option 3: benefit
Option 4: cruelty
Correct Answer: cruelty
Solution : The fourth option is the correct answer.
The word cruelty provides a fitting contrast to "touching kindness," emphasising the duality and complexity of O'Neill's character. It suggests that his demeanour alternated between harshness or cruelty and moments of gentle kindness, contributing to the enigma surrounding his personality.
Therefore, the correct answer is cruelty.
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