Directions: Fill in the blanks in the passage below, with the word from among the options given for each blank labelled (1) to (5). Choose the word that fits in each blank most appropriately in the context of the passage.

I found that a person of large intelligence could read this beautiful language with a considerable facility without a dictionary, but I presently found that to such a ___(1)___ a grammar could be of use at times. It is because if he does not know the were's and the was's and the maybe's and the has-beens apart, confusions and uncertainties can___(2)___. He can get the idea that a thing is going to happen next week when the truth is that it has___(3)___ happened the week before last. Even more previously, sometimes. Examination and inquiry showed me that the adjectives and such things were frank and fair-minded and straightforward, and did not shuffle; it was the Verb that mixed the hands, it was the Verb that ___(4)___ stability, it was the Verb that had no permanent opinion about anything, it was the Verb that was always dodging the issue and putting out the light and making all the trouble.
Further examination, further ____(5)___, and further reflection, confirmed this judgment and established beyond peradventure the fact that the Verb was the storm center.