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Directions (Q. 66 - 75):
In the following passage there are blanks each of which hasbeen numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each,five words are suggested one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out theappropriate word in each case.
Once upon a time there lived a Brahmin. He was ..(66).. for his miserliness.Every day, he would go out begging and save some flour people gave him as alms. He..(67).. the flour in an earthen pot. When it was full, he hung the pot to a peg abovehis bed so that he could keep an ..(68) .. on it
One day he returned home very tired and immediately fell ..(69).. and begandreaming: this pot is full of flour and if there is a famine it would ..(70).. me a veryhigh price. With that money, I will buy a big herd of goats. I will sell them for a huge..(71).. and buy cow with that money. Then, I will buy buffaloes and later horses. And,when the stables are full of horses' I will sell them and buy lots of gold.
With this gold I will build a huge house with four floors. Seeing my riches oneBrahmin will offer the hand of his beautiful daughter to me. I will play with mychildren. I will go and hide in the stable and call out them to look for me. But whenthey drift dangerously ..(72).. to the horses. I will pick up a stick and throw it towardsthe horses to distract them and save my children. I will become a hero in my wife eyes.
While ..(73).. he picked a stick lying close to him and sprung it towards the pot.The stick ..(74).. the pot hanging from the peg and ..(75).. all its contents over hisbody. He now looked like a white ghost
In the following passage there are blanks each of which hasbeen numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each,five words are suggested one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out theappropriate word in each case.
Once upon a time there lived a Brahmin. He was ..(66).. for his miserliness.Every day, he would go out begging and save some flour people gave him as alms. He..(67).. the flour in an earthen pot. When it was full, he hung the pot to a peg abovehis bed so that he could keep an ..(68) .. on it
One day he returned home very tired and immediately fell ..(69).. and begandreaming: this pot is full of flour and if there is a famine it would ..(70).. me a veryhigh price. With that money, I will buy a big herd of goats. I will sell them for a huge..(71).. and buy cow with that money. Then, I will buy buffaloes and later horses. And,when the stables are full of horses' I will sell them and buy lots of gold.
With this gold I will build a huge house with four floors. Seeing my riches oneBrahmin will offer the hand of his beautiful daughter to me. I will play with mychildren. I will go and hide in the stable and call out them to look for me. But whenthey drift dangerously ..(72).. to the horses. I will pick up a stick and throw it towardsthe horses to distract them and save my children. I will become a hero in my wife eyes.
While ..(73).. he picked a stick lying close to him and sprung it towards the pot.The stick ..(74).. the pot hanging from the peg and ..(75).. all its contents over hisbody. He now looked like a white ghost
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