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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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The first proposal I submitted for my dissertation at UCLA was to write a theory of personality. My chairman, a kindly man, smiled ____(1)____ and told me that perhaps this was a bit ambitious for a young graduate student. ____(2)____, I accepted his verdict and changed my topic, but not my desire. It ____(3)____ later, when I had a chance to begin to ____(4)____ a theory in my research on group dynamics for the Navy during the Korean War. As I ____(5)____ on the reasons for the persistence of my interest in the overarching theory, I had an ____(6)____ memory. When I was around eight years old, I was a ____(7)____ baseball fan, as was my father. My hero was Lou Gohrig. I would approach my father in an attempt to prove to him how good Gohrig really was : "He hit 363, had 49 home runs, batted in 165 runs. He's terrific!" My father's response caught me off guard : "Yes, but he can't field." I wasn't prepared for that. From then on, my way of ____(8)____ with my father's responses was to make sure I knew everything about any topic I wanted to talk to him about. Partly as a ____(9)____, I became a holist. I had to make sure I had ____(10)____ for everything.

Question : 46

Choose the correct word which fits the blank (6)?

a) interesting

b) obvious

c) engulfing

d) esteemed

e) evolving

Answer: (a)

Question : 47

Choose the correct word which fits the blank (7)?

a) precarious

b) haunting

c) deliberate

d) pervasive

e) rabid

Answer: (e)

Question : 48

Choose the correct word which fits the blank (8)?

a) patience

b) alliance

c) influence

d) coping

e) questioning

Answer: (d)

Question : 49

Choose the correct word which fits the blank (9)?

a) custom

b) capacity

c) defence

d) preference

e) posterity

Answer: (a)

Question : 50

Choose the correct word which fits the blank (10)?

a) consideration

b) accounted

c) longing

d) regard

e) established

Answer: (b)

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