In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap: The chemistry teacher seized the girl's comic _____ during the laboratory ...

In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fill(s) the gap:

The chemistry teacher seized the girl's comic _____ during the laboratory work

Answer Details

The best option to fill the blank is "which she had been reading". This is because the past perfect continuous tense "had been reading" indicates that the girl was in the middle of reading the comic when the teacher took it away. The other options ("which she has been reading", "which she had read", "which she is reading") either do not convey the same sense of ongoing action or use incorrect verb tenses.