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Tips For Fill In the Blanks.

1. Try to understand the meaning of paragraph while reading to fill up the correct words in blanks.
2. If u don't know the meaning of options given for a particular blank,firstly eliminate the options which do not match with the meaning of the paragraph.
3. Now try to fill the blanks according to tense of the sentence if u don't no the meanings.

• Fill In the Banks (Practice Test ) :-

Can we see (1) ____(if,where,that,whether,when) the earth is globe ?Yes,we can,when we watch a ship that sail out a sea.If we watch closely,we see that the ship begins (2)____ (being disappeared,to be disappeared,to have disappeared,to disappear,having disappeared) ,The bottom of the ship disappears first,and then the ship seems to sink lower and lower,(3)_____(until,since,after,by the time,unless) we can only see the top of the ship,and then we see nothing at all.What is hiding the ship from us? It is the earth,stick a pin most of the way into a orange,and (4)___(reluctantly,accidentally,slowly,passionately,carefully)turn the orange,away from you.You will see the pin disappear,((5) _____(the same,alike,just as,by the way,similar to) a ship does on the earth.

ANSWERS : That,to have disappeared,until,slowly,just as.

Through the ages,birds have been a source of wonder to all who have(1) ____ (verified,supported,claimed,observed,warned)their soaring flight or listened to their sweet song.(2)___ (like,just,still,another,as)a group,birds are (3) ___ (unique,common,mundane,indifferent,mediocre)they are the only animals covered (4)_____(by,on,with,as,into)feathers.This evolutionary development (5)____(has been separated,separates,separated,was separated,separating)birds from all other animals.

ANSWERS : observed,as,unique,with,separates.

A century ago the process of choosing a career was a much simpler matter than it is today,A boy often followed in his father's footstep,s.His sister learned the household skills that (1) ____ (has prepared,may prepared,was prepared,would prepare,preparing)her to become a wife and other.Nowadays young people grow up in a much freer society (2)____(where,when,why,whom,whose)they enjoy almost unlimited career opportunities in recent year there (3)____(had been,has been,will be,would have been,was)on enormous increase in the kinds of vacations from which it is possible to choose,in addition many of the barriers  to career opportunity that existed only a few decades ago,such as (4)____(judgment,perception,goodwill,devotion,discrimination)based on sex or religion or ethnic origins,are (5) ____(rapidly,incessantly,categorically,vigllantly,straightforwardly)disappearing.

ANSWERS: would prepare,where,has been,discrimination,rapidly.

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C. S. Lewis, or Jack Lewis, as he preferred to be called, was born in Belfast, Ireland (now Northern Ireland) on November 29, 1898. He was the second son of Albert Lewis, a lawyer, and Flora Hamilton Lewis. His older brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis, who was known as Warnie, had been born three years  Selectagoearlierpreviouslysubsequently  in 1895.

Lewis's early childhood was relatively happy and carefree. In those days Northern Ireland was not yet  Selectplaguedbotheredpestereddoubted  by bitter civil strife, and the Lewises were comfortably off. The family home, called Little Lea, was a large, gabled house with dark, narrow passages and an overgrown garden, which Warnie and Jack played in and  Selectwatchedinstigatedexploredinspired  together. There was also a library that was crammed with books - two of Jack's favorites were Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

This somewhat idyllic boyhood came to an end for Lewis when his mother became ill and died of cancer in 1908. Barely a month after her death the two boys were sent away from home to go to boarding school in England.

Lewis hated the school, with its strict rules and hard,  Selectunsympatheticcarelessdesensitizeddeliberative  headmaster, and he missed Belfast terribly. Fortunately for him, the school closed in 1910, and he was able to return to Ireland.

After a year, however, he was sent back to England to study. This time, the  Selectessenceunderstandingsufferingexperience proved to be mostly positive. As a teenager, Lewis learned to love poetry, especially the works of Virgil and Homer. He also developed an interest in modern languages, mastering French, German, and Italian.

Answers : earlier,plagued,explored,unsympathetic,experience.

Called Chomolungma ("goddess mother of the world") in Tibet and Sagarmatha ("goddess of the sky") in Nepal, Mount Everest once went by the pedestrian name of Peak XV among Westerners. That was before  Selectpurveyorssurveyorssurveillancepersuasion  established that it was the highest mountain on Earth, a fact that came as something of a surprise - Peak XV had seemed lost in the crowd of other formidable Himalayan peaks, many of which gave the  Selectinclusionallusionanticipationillusion  of greater height.

In 1852 the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India measured Everest's elevation as 29,002 feet above sea level. This figure remained the officially  Selectacceptedexceptedinceptedintercepted  height for more than one hundred years. In 1955 it was adjusted by a mere 26 feet to 29,028 (8,848 m).

The mountain received its official name in 1865 in honor of Sir George Everest, the British Surveyor General from 1830-1843 who had mapped the Indian subcontinent. He had some  Selectapplicationsimplicationsreservationsrejections  about having his name bestowed on the peak, arguing that the mountain should retain its local appellation, the standard policy of geographical societies.

Before the Survey of India, a number of other mountains ranked supreme in the eyes of the world. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Andean peak Chimborazo was considered the highest. At a relatively unremarkable 20,561 feet (6,310 m), it is in fact nowhere near the highest,  Selectreducedsurpassedsurmisedtransposed by about thirty other Andean peaks and several dozen in the Himalayas. In 1809, the Himalayan peak Dhaulagiri (26,810 ft.; 8,172 m) was declared the ultimate, only to be shunted aside in 1840 by Kanchenjunga (28,208 ft.; 8,598 m), which today ranks third. Everest's status has been unrivaled for the last century and a half, but not without a few threats.

Answers : surveyors,illusion,accepted,reservations,surpassed.

The Eiffel Tower was the tallest building in the world when it was completed in 1889. It was built for the World's Fair to Selectdemonstrateimplicatesuggestinsinuate  that iron could be as strong as stone while being infinitely lighter. And in fact the wrought-iron tower is twice as tall as the masonry Washington Monument and yet it weighs 70,000 tons less! It is repainted every seven years with 50 tons of dark brown paint.

Called "the father of the skyscraper," the Home Insurance Building,  Selectrenovateddevisedconstructedinvented  in Chicago in 1885 (and demolished in 1931), was 138 feet tall and 10 stories. It was the first building to effectively employ a supporting  Selectceilingskeletonengineconcrete  of steel beams and columns, allowing it to have many more windows than traditional masonry structures. But this new construction method made people worry that the building would fall down, leading the city to halt construction until they could  Selectexonerateameliorateinvestigateconsecrate  the structure's safety.

In 1929, auto tycoon Walter Chrysler took part in an intense race with the Bank of Manhattan Trust Company to build the world's tallest skyscraper. Just when it looked like the bank had captured the Select informalmeaninglessroyalcoveted title, workers at the Chrysler Building jacked a thin spire hidden inside the building through the top of the roof to win the contest (subsequently losing the title four months later to the Empire State Building). Chrysler also decorated his building to mirror his cars, with hubcaps, mudguards, and hood ornaments.

ANSWERS : demonstrate,constructed,skeleton,investigate,coveted.

Tips For Re-order paragraph :-

1. Try to understand the general idea of the paragraph.
2. Sentence with Conjunctions like however,nevertheless,but,also,such as,it etc cannot go on number one.
3. Sometimes some dates given in different lines can help you to arrange the paragraph easily.
4. Do not waste too much time in this task.

Practice Test :-

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A: When this bank was founded in 1695, Scots coinage was in short supply and of uncertain value, compared with English, Dutch, Flemish or French coin.

B: In most countries it is only the government, through their central banks, who are permitted to issue currency.

C: To face growth of trade it was deemed necessary to remedy this lack of an adequate currency.

D: But in Scotland three banks are still allowed to issue banknotes.

E: The first Scottish bank to do this was the Bank of Scotland.

ANSWERS : B,D,E,A,C

A: These markets had become rapidly dominated by powerful enterprises who were able to act in their own interests, against the interests of both workers and consumers.

B: Mill was able to see an expanded role for the State in such legislation to protect us against powerful interests.

C: He was able to argue that the State was the only organ that was genuinely capable of responding to social needs and social interests, unlike markets.

D: Markets may be good at encouraging innovation and following trends, but they were no good at ensuring social equality.

E: There had already been some legislation to prevent such abuses - such as various Factory Acts to prevent the exploitation of child workers.

Answers : D,A,E,B,C.

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