English Language · English

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 5. JMW Turner was 64 when he painted 'The Fighting Temeraire'. He was born in 1775 in a down-at-heel area of London near Covent Garden but (1)______ to enroll at the (2)______ Royal Academy of Arts aged 14. He became an Academician at the (3)______ age of 24, and a Professor of Perspective when he was just 32. Although he (4)______ shoulders with the great, he refused to (5)______ his manners.