Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions: After reading the passage below,fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct.For the blanks with a given word,fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word;for the other blanks,use one word that best fits each blank.

In short,those elf stories in Iceland might have represented a vague yet desperate attempt at control: if you did the right thing and helped out a hidden person,then at least through your response you had a tiny bit of power over your own destiny.