Directions (4): In the following passages, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Mark your answer in the Answer-Sheet.(Mark your answer 4)
Jawaharlal Nehru was probably the first important public leader to realise that if India were to (1) its problems, it would have to (2) the age of science. The Government of free India was one of the first in the world to set up a department of science and technology. The (3) the Government has attached to science is also clear (4) the fact that the portfolio of science and technology has always been (5) by the Prime Minister himself.

In the following questions, in the following passages some of words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.

Tennis is a game that gives one plenty of exercise; It develops ___(21)__ of eye and limb and ___(22)___the brain too into___(23)___. A few sets of tennis keep one physically and ___(24)___fit. But for the indoors, chess is the queen of games. People say chess is a __(25)__game because only two can play.

Fill in the blank at (22).

Read the passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.

Smile, they say, and soon there will be miles and miles of smiles. If we keep __(A)_ourselves and do not mix with others, we shall soon be left alone to ponder __(B)__the misfortunes of life. Nobody likes to come across a _( C) _and self-centred person. People __(D)__gregarious and outgoing souls who are prepared to share their Joys and sorrows vanish if they have the capacity to laugh away their problems and miseries

Mark your answer at (C).

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

Civilization, like (A), fall, not so much because of (B) of the enemy outside, as through the weakness and (C) within, Rome fell not because of the (D), they merely knocked (E) something that was already dead. The heart of Rome had ceased beating when the arms and legs were cut rotated. We see something of this spectacle, in India and China and in the case of the Arabs. The downfall of Arabian civilization was sudden even as their rise had been. In India and China the process is long drawn out and it is not easy to spot it.

(B)

Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
 BRICS leaders are gathered in the Russian town of Ufa for the bloc’s annual summit, and Internet governance is high on their (1). The summit comes at a (2) juncture in India’s internet diplomacy. Last month in Buenos Aires, at a conference organised by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad offered an “Indian (3) for the Internet”. ICANN is the organisation that manages the Domain Name System, which serves as the (4) for all technical and commercial activity in cyberspace. In his recorded message, Mr. Prasad declared India would move away from state-led approaches to (5) the Internet, preferring instead a mechanism that co-opts the private sector and civil society into the policymaking process. India’s (6) of this model – called “multi-stakeholderism” – was followed at home by the launch of the “Digital India week”, which underlined the enormous political capital that the Narendra Modi government has (7) in technological solutions to governance. The Buenos Aires declaration, however, (8) stated New Delhi’s position: in Ufa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his delegation will be queried extensively by their interlocutors on the (9) cyber strategies India will (10).

Choose the correct option for the blank 6.

Please Read carefully the passage and give answer the following questions.

If you prefer mountains_(52)_ deserts, try Darjeeling, West Bengal’s hill resort that _(53)_ at the foothills of the mightly Himalayas__(54)__while in Bengal, if your spirit of adventure gets the better of you, _(55)_ the ferry to the Sunderbans, the world’s largest delta. But if these places do not attract you there’s Bhutan, the quiet Himalayan Kingdom_(56)_West Bengal.

Mark your answer at (53).

Fill in the blanks in the passage below with the appropriate word from the options.
The happiest person is the one who enjoys what life offers. ...(1)... age has its pleasures and its pains. Old age has always been thought of as the ... (2)... age to be. But it is not ... (3)... for the old to be unhappy. With old age should come... (4)... and the ability to guide others with ... (5)... wisely given. The old can have the joy of seeing their... (6).. making progress in life. They can watch their grandchildren .(7)... up around them. If... (8). .. life has been a useful one, they can feel the happiness of having come through the ...(9)... of life …. (10).

Mark the answer (7).

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First, read the passage over and try to understand what is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Mark your answer in the Answer-sheet.

Have you ever felt that Computer are getting under your skin? Will, you have seen nothing yet. Scientists in the United states are……(11)……computer that are so………(12)……..that they can be seen into the fining of clothes or even…….(13)….in to the human body.
These are…………..(14)…..as sub-dermal computers, and those who….(15)……then will be able to communicate through radio links to other computer arriers. Initially the……….(16)…….for this mindboggling micro-technology is …….(17)…..to be military one.
Already the US army has developed a Computer of the…..(18)……of a pill, which can be ……(19)….and allow doctors to…….(20)….the health of soldiers on training missions.
(Mark your answer 17)