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The following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blanks with its particular number, out of the five alternatives.

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Fourteen centuries ago when the world was much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was ____(1)____ about his people. A new game of dice, called nard, had ____(2)____ the imagination of his subjects. Teaching them that chance alone - a roll of the dice - guided the ____(3)____ of men. All who played this game of fortune lost their ____(4)____ in the virtues of courage, prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was ____(5)____ the spirit of the kingdom. Rajah Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent courtier, at his court, to find an answer to this ____(6)____. After much ____(7)____ the clever Sissa invented another game, chaturanga, the exact ____(8)____ of nard, in which the four elements of the Indian army were the key pieces. In the game these pieces - chariots, horses, elephants and foot soldiers - joined with a royal counsellor to defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful ____(9)____ was demanded of the players not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than nard, and the ____(10)____ to the kingdom was over.

Question : 1

Identify the exact answer for the blank (1)?

a) concerned

b) confident

c) ignorant

d) indifferent

e) partisan

Answer: (e)

Question : 2

Identify the exact answer for the blank (2)?

a) propelled

b) enshrined

c) captured

d) activated

e) enhanced

Answer: (d)

Question : 3

Identify the exact answer for the blank (3)?

a) communities

b) ways

c) abnormalities

d) destinies

e) groups

Answer: (a)

Question : 4

Identify the exact answer for the blank (4)?

a) bravado

b) interest

c) peace

d) wealth

e) faithv

Answer: (c)

Question : 5

Identify the exact answer for the blank (5)?

a) appalling

b) crushing

c) moistening

d) promoting

e) overwhelming

Answer: (c)

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