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Directions (21-25):
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 are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
One rainy day while driving me home from school my father stopped to offer a frail old man a lift. Though he was headed in the opposite ...(21)... my father insisted. By the time we ...(22)... home it was late and I was tired and ...(23)... with my father.
That night, my father ...(24)... me a bedtime story as usual - A ...(25)... Emperor was once asked "Sire, while you are rich and powerful, your teacher doesn't even own a piece of land" you visit him, why don't you summon him to court?" The Emperor smiled and said, "You are mistaken, my teachers is richer than I am. My land can be lost in a war but he possesses knowledge which can never be stolen." ''The old man was my teacher" my father concluded.
I have never forgotten the lesson my father 'taught' me that day.
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 are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
One rainy day while driving me home from school my father stopped to offer a frail old man a lift. Though he was headed in the opposite ...(21)... my father insisted. By the time we ...(22)... home it was late and I was tired and ...(23)... with my father.
That night, my father ...(24)... me a bedtime story as usual - A ...(25)... Emperor was once asked "Sire, while you are rich and powerful, your teacher doesn't even own a piece of land" you visit him, why don't you summon him to court?" The Emperor smiled and said, "You are mistaken, my teachers is richer than I am. My land can be lost in a war but he possesses knowledge which can never be stolen." ''The old man was my teacher" my father concluded.
I have never forgotten the lesson my father 'taught' me that day.
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