2- Keith Haring – PTE – Reading Fill in the blanks ( Drop menu )

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2-Keith Haring text: 
Keith Haring began as an underground artist, literally. His first famous projects were pieces of stylized graffiti________ in New York subway stations. Haring travelled from station to station, drawing with chalk and chatting with commuters about his work. These doodles helped him develop his classic style and he grew so_________ , doing up to 40 drawings a day, that it was not long before fame and a measure of fortune followed. Soon, galleries and collectors from the art establishment wanted to buy full-sized pieces by Haring. The paintings skyrocketed in price but this did not sit well with Haring’s philosophy. He believed that art, or___________ his art, was for everyone. Soon, Haring opened a store which he called the Pop Shop, which he hoped would attract a broad range of people. While somewhat controversial among street artists, some of __________accused Haring of ‘selling out’, the Pop Shop changed the way people thought about the relationship between art and business. 

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Model Answers with Explanation :
 1- drawn :  ✅
The blank space must be filled with “drawn” because it is the past participle needed for the passive voice construction of the sentence. In the context, the sentence suggests that the graffiti was created (drawn) by Keith Haring in the past. The words “drawers,” “drew,” and “draws” do not correctly fit grammatically in this sentence.
**In the given sentence, the blank space needs to be filled with a verb that is in the passive voice to indicate that the graffiti was created by Keith Haring in the subway stations. The sentence structure suggests that the graffiti is the subject that received the action of being created, rather than the graffiti itself performing an action.
* “drawers” – This is a noun referring to a piece of furniture or a person who draws. It doesn’t fit the sentence grammatically or contextually.
* “drew” – This is the past tense of the verb “draw,” but it’s in the active voice. Filling in “drew” would suggest that the graffiti itself drew something, which doesn’t make sense.
* “draws” – This is the present tense of the verb “draw,” and like “drew,” it’s in the active voice. It doesn’t fit the sentence’s structure or meaning.
* “drawn” – This is the past participle form of “draw” and fits perfectly in a passive voice construction. The graffiti was “drawn” (created) by Keith Haring. ✅

Thus, the correct choice to fill in the blank is “drawn” ✅ because it correctly communicates that the graffiti was created by Keith Haring in the subway stations. 

 2- Prolific : غزير الإنتاج ✅
The blank space needs to be filled with the word “prolific” because it’s implying that Haring was producing a large quantity of work (up to 40 drawings a day). “Prolific” means producing many works or results, which aligns with the context of the sentence.

* On the other hand, “pedantic” means overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, “perceptive” means having or showing sensitive insight, and “proactive” means creating or controlling a situation rather than just responding to it after it has happened, none of which accurately describe the quantity or rate of Haring’s output.

3- at least : ✅The phrase “or ____ his art” is implying that though the speaker may not know for certain about all art, he can, however, attest for his own art specifically. This is essentially indicating a minimal condition, therefore “at least” is the correct phrase to use here. “At least” means ‘even if nothing else is true or possible; as a minimum’, suiting the context here.

* “In part” means ‘to some extent; partially’, and doesn’t fit the context accurately; there’s no part of his art that he doesn’t believe is for everyone.

* “By contrast” signals a comparison or difference, which is not the primary focus in this context.

* “Actually” emphasizes reality or facts, but wouldn’t complete the thought properly here.

4- whom : ✅The grammatical role of the word in the blank is to introduce a relative clause, which gives more information about a noun (or a noun phrase) in the sentence. Here, the blank space is introducing a clause that provides further information about ‘some’ (of the street artists).
When the pronoun is referring to people and is the object of the verb in the relative clause (in this case, “accused”), the appropriate relative pronoun to use is “whom”.
* “Those” and “them” are both subject pronouns (or direct object pronouns),
* while “whose” is a possessive pronoun that is used to show ownership or association. Therefore, in this sentence, “whom” is the correct choice.

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