Question

Look at the blank with the number 20 in the passage. Which of these answers correctly completes the sentence?

Answer 1

What passage ? There’s no picture.....I need more information to answer your question.

Answer 2

Answer:

if it's a USA Test Prep question with the example of "They (20) away so long and were so much changed in appearance that none of their relations and old friends knew them when they arrived in Venice."

Then the answer is , (B) had been.