Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space and is followed by four choices. Select the most appropriate choice to fill in the blank and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
Passage:
CLOZE COMPREHENSION 1 This cultural form ....... 49 . organizing from Japan has a name which means ‘whimsical or impromptu pictures’. It ....... 50 . in existence since the 12th century when the first ....... 51 . for this art form was seen. Since the language itself is read from right to left, the books with ..... 52 . form follow the same pattern. .......... 53 . when English translations were made, they flipped the pictures and published it. This ........... 54 . the purists as it showed left-handed samurai, who did not exist in the original book. Hence, nowadays even English translations follow ...... 55 . right to left format. The name of this art form is Manga.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank 53.
- AFor
- BBeginning
- CDuring
- DInitially
Explanation
The sentence describes what happened at first when translations were made: they flipped the pictures. ‘Initially’ (in the beginning) fits this meaning. ‘For’ and ‘During’ need different constructions, and ‘Beginning’ alone cannot head the clause. Hence option (d) is correct.