The verb here is "had given"; this is past perfect: it's a perfect tense, because it has a past participle with the -ed ending ("given") and it's the past perfect because the auxiliary verb is the past form of "have": had.
It allows him to describe the banker's self-contempt when the banker reads the lawyer's essay.
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When making a prediction reading, students should make an ANALYSIS on the overall idea the text conveys, its format, the title, highlight key words and observe the context.
