Below a passage is given with five blanks labelled (A)-(E). Below the passage, five options are given for each blank. Choose the word that fits each blank most appropriately in the context of the passage, and mark the corresponding answer.

Arnold Schwarzenegger was a young man when he __(A)__ the gym for the first time. He had skinny legs, a __(B)__ chest and small shoulders and came from a background where financial resources were always slim. But Schwarzenegger’s inner resources were always __(C)__. Shortly after his first bodybuilding session he turned to another bodybuilder and __(D)__ that he would become Mr. Universe in five years. The bodybuilder laughed, but look at Schwarzenegger now. Here is a man who refuses to accept __(E)__ on what he can do and the success that he will meet as he bounds through the rose garden of life.