Explanation:

- The passage is about a person reflecting on being unable to avoid spending summer at the Côte d'Azur.

- The narrator uses possessive pronouns to describe their personal experience.

- In statement (2), the word before the blank is "spend," indicating the need for a possessive pronoun describing who the "summer months" belong to.

- The options are:

1. "my" – This means the summer months belonging to the narrator.

2. "ours" – This means shared summer months with others.

3. "me" – Incorrect as it doesn't fit grammatically before 'summer months'.

4. "mine" – "Mine" requires an object before it, e.g., "those summer months of mine."

- "my" is the correct option as it aligns possessively and grammatically with "summer months."

- The correct sentence section is: "to keep from having to spend my glistering summer months".

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