For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

The subjectivity inherent in travel is aptly captured in the range of styles used by different writers. For Hemingway, writing eighty years ago, the experience of travel—regardless of how momentous—was rendered in (i) observations, a style many of today’s writers studiously (ii). Then there is travel writer Pico Iyer, for whom a simple stroll through an airport can beget sentences bursting forth with as many semicolons as revelations. Who thought the terminal could be so (iii)? Surely not many writers today.

Blank (i)

prosaic

aphoristic

sardonic

Blank (ii)

avoid

lampoon

cultivate

Blank (iii)

irrevocably wrenching

wildly unpredictable

endlessly fascinating

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