Question 12
Read the interview given below and fill in the blanks with those forms of the verbs which best fit the excerpt from the options provided. Your chosen answer should maintain the tense and narrative consistency of the interview.
Mike Cadden: I think that people who read your work more selectively- people who just read the science fiction or the children’s books- would probably be surprised to see how evenly split it is between adult, young adult, and children’s books. They’d be surprised, I would guess, because there (i) _____ a lot of criticism that connects them.
Ursula K. Le Guin: Yes, particularly with the actual children’s books, which have barely been mentioned.
MC: In his study on people who write for both children and adults, David Galef notes that there are few authors who (ii) _____ for both children and adults all through their careers and have been successful in both of those areas. He uses A. A. Milne as an example of somebody who does that. What I was curious about is what (iii) _____ you to move back and forth so frequently? You’ve moved between them pretty regularly. Why do you think you have moved so freely between them over the years?
UKL: You know, partly I’d have to say it’s because I had an agent who (iv) _____ willing to sell both kinds. The effect of the market is very powerful. I think a lot of writers aren’t able to. They might want to write both kinds or several kinds. This is also true of other genres. I had one of the very few agents in the United States, or in the world, who was willing to handle any genre. And not only willing to, but she could do it. She was good at it. She knew her stuff, which (v) _____ me to do what I wanted to do, which was apparently never to be pinned down into being a type of writer—except basically fiction and poetry.
Excerpted from: Cadden, Mike. “An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin.” Ursula K. Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Find the appropriate verb form to fill in blank (ii).
Were written
Will write
Have written
Writes