| Direction: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
| On the slopes of long's peak (5) in Himalaya lies the ruins of a gigantic tree. Naturalists tell us that it__ (6) __four hundred years. During the course of life, it was struck by lightning fourteen times and the innumerable (7) avalanches and storms of four centuries thundered past it. It survived them all. At the end, however, ____ (8) __ of beetles attacked the tree and levelled it to the ground. The insects ate their way through the tree by their ___ (9) __attacks. |
A) stand
B) standing
C) stood
D) stands
E) None of these
Correct Answer: C
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