Comprehension:

In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the run, (1) ______ Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a one-dollar commemorative circulation coin (2)______  Monday on the campus of Simon Fraser University. Fox was (3)__________ undergraduate student and basketball player at SFU when a malignant tumour was discovered in his right leg in 1977. It resulted in (4)_______. A bronze statue of Fox, one of many such tributes across Canada, looks over the academic quadrangle of the university, just a short stroll from the theatre where Monday's (5)_______ was held.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 3.

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- The complete sentence is: Fox was the undergraduate student and basketball player at SFU when a malignant tumour was discovered in his right leg in 1977.

- The article "the" is a definite article used before a noun to refer to a specific or particular item, person, or concept that is already known or has been previously mentioned.