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Direction: In the following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blank out of the four alternatives.

Passage - II

Writers are liked or disliked for something much (38) than their exceptional ability with (39). The sense we get of the person behind the writer, our feeling that his attitudes are interesting and (40), our (41) with his stories and (42) these are more important than some (43) recognition of (44) intelligence. We (45) to books and writers as we do to people. It was Forster, in fact, who said in Aspects of the Novel. Our final test of a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends and of anything else which we cannot (46). In these terms, it seems to me that it is as easy to (47) Naipaul's work as to like Forster's. Naipaul?s deepest instincts are not to my taste.

A) recognization                 

B) affinity

C) empathy           

D) proximity