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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.

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 2.

Option 1: rewarded

Option 2: awarded

Option 3: unaided

Option 4: crowded


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Answer (1)
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Correct Answer: awarded


Solution : The second option is the correct answer.

In this context, the word awarded is appropriate because it conveys the idea that Gladstone O'Neill received or was given the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature. The term "awarded" is commonly used when describing someone receiving recognition or honour making it suitable for the sentence.

Therefore, the correct answer is awarded.

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