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In the following passages at certain points you are given a choice of three words in brackets, one of which fits the meaning of the passage.
Choose the word which best fits the meaning of the passage and mark the corresponding letter viz (a), (b) or (c) on your Answer Sheet
Examples
Y and Z have been solved for you.
Y (a) Boy (b) Horse (c) Dog was in the school in Shimla Z (a) she (b) it (c) He was homesick
Explanation :
Out of the list given in item Y, only boy is the correct answer because usually a boy, and not a horse or a dog, attends school. So (a) is to be marked on the Answer Sheet for item Y. A boy is usually referred to as "he", so for item Z, the letter (c) is correct answer. Notice that to solve this kind of items you have to read the preceding or succeeding sentences of the given passage.
One of the most interesting new books published recently is 'Spaceship' by Prof. E.C. Walker. Our earth he says 61 (a) is (b) have been (c) will be like a spaceship, and all the 400 million people 62(a) over (b) on (c)upon) earth are passengers on it. And we are heading 63(a) about (b) to (c) towards a disaster. The levels of atmospheric pollution64(a) increasing (b) arriving (c) coming in the cities and industrial areas of the world could in time change the weather patterns of the earth, raising the temperature 65(a) in (b) of (c) for the whole planet. If this rose a few 66(a) degrees (b) steps (c) miles the deserts of the world would expand to double their size.
The polar ice caps would start melting. If the polar ice caps melted, the 67(a) water (b) ice (c) sea level all over the world would rise 68(a) in (b) by (c) to about 60 meters. Prof. Walker’s 69(a) idea (b) thought (c) book is not at all about gloom and doom. He admits that the 70(a) ideas (b) solutions (c) book he describes could take thousands of years.
SELECTING WORDS
In the following passages at certain points you are given a choice of three words in brackets, one of which fits the meaning of the passage.
Choose the word which best fits the meaning of the passage and mark the corresponding letter viz (a), (b) or (c) on your Answer Sheet
Examples
Y and Z have been solved for you.
Y (a) Boy (b) Horse (c) Dog was in the school in Shimla Z (a) she (b) it (c) He was homesick
Explanation :
Out of the list given in item Y, only boy is the correct answer because usually a boy, and not a horse or a dog, attends school. So (a) is to be marked on the Answer Sheet for item Y. A boy is usually referred to as "he", so for item Z, the letter (c) is correct answer. Notice that to solve this kind of items you have to read the preceding or succeeding sentences of the given passage.
PASSAGE 1
One of the most interesting new books published recently is 'Spaceship' by Prof. E.C. Walker. Our earth he says 61 (a) is (b) have been (c) will be like a spaceship, and all the 400 million people 62(a) over (b) on (c)upon) earth are passengers on it. And we are heading 63(a) about (b) to (c) towards a disaster. The levels of atmospheric pollution64(a) increasing (b) arriving (c) coming in the cities and industrial areas of the world could in time change the weather patterns of the earth, raising the temperature 65(a) in (b) of (c) for the whole planet. If this rose a few 66(a) degrees (b) steps (c) miles the deserts of the world would expand to double their size.
The polar ice caps would start melting. If the polar ice caps melted, the 67(a) water (b) ice (c) sea level all over the world would rise 68(a) in (b) by (c) to about 60 meters. Prof. Walker’s 69(a) idea (b) thought (c) book is not at all about gloom and doom. He admits that the 70(a) ideas (b) solutions (c) book he describes could take thousands of years.
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