Question

READ THE TEXT "ARTS", ATTENTION, ONLY ONE ALTERNATIVE TO EACH QUESTION: I can talk with conviction about this subject of one being (I)______because I feel deeply about it. I know what I am talking about. I know from bitter and costly experience. To illustrate : when I first came to New York from the cornfields of Missouri, I enrolled in the American Academy of DramaticArts. I aspired to be an actor. I had what I thought was a brilliant idea, a short cut to success, an idea so simple, that I couldn´t understand why thousands of ambitious people hadn´t already discovered it. It was this: I would study how the famous actors of that day, John Drew, Walter Hampden, and Otis Skinner, got their effects. Then I would imitate the best points of each one of them and make (II)______ into a shining, triumphant combination of all of (III)_______. How silly! How absurd! I had to waste years of my life imitating other people before it penetrated through my thick Missouri skull that I had to be myself and that I couldn´t possibly be anyone else. 1) THE WORD THAT BEST FILLS BLANK (I) IN THE TEXT IS: *

a) yourself
b) its
c) themselves
d) oneself
e) your

Answer 1

Resposta: d), b), c)