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(Q. 1 to 10) In the following passage there are blanks each of which has been
numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five
words are suggested one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the
appropriate word in each case.
(Q. 1 to 10) In the following passage there are blanks each of which has been
numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five
words are suggested one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the
appropriate word in each case.
Once upon a time there was a
prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real
princess. He ____(1)____ all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he
get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and
lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was ____(2)____
at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess
standing out there. But, good gracious ! What a sight the rain and the wind had
made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her
shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she Insisted that she was a real
princess. Well, we’ll soon ____(3)____out, thought the old queen. But she said
nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and ____(4)____
a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea,
and then twenty quilts on ____(5)____ of the mattresses. On this the princess
had to lie all night. In the ____(6)____ she was asked how she had slept. “Oh,
very badly !” said she. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows
what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, as a____(7)____ I am
black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible !” Now they knew that she was a
real princess because she had ____(8)____ the pea right through the twenty
mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as ____(9)____
as that. So the prince took her for his wife, for now he ____(10)____ that he
had a real princess.
prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real
princess. He ____(1)____ all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he
get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and
lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was ____(2)____
at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess
standing out there. But, good gracious ! What a sight the rain and the wind had
made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her
shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she Insisted that she was a real
princess. Well, we’ll soon ____(3)____out, thought the old queen. But she said
nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and ____(4)____
a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea,
and then twenty quilts on ____(5)____ of the mattresses. On this the princess
had to lie all night. In the ____(6)____ she was asked how she had slept. “Oh,
very badly !” said she. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows
what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, as a____(7)____ I am
black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible !” Now they knew that she was a
real princess because she had ____(8)____ the pea right through the twenty
mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as ____(9)____
as that. So the prince took her for his wife, for now he ____(10)____ that he
had a real princess.
1. (a) called (b) tour
(c) sent (d) saw
(e) travelled
2. (a) made (b) felt
(c) heard (d) seen
(e) sounded
3. (a) assure (b) find
(c) judge (d) mark
(e) try
4. (a) drew (b) flung
(c) placed (d) cooked
(e) stitch
5. (a) top (b) head
(c) bottom (d) between
(e) middle
6. (a) morning (b) dinner
(c) room (d) fields
(e) dark
7. (a) vengeance (b) price
(c) cause (d) result
(e) time
8. (a) slept (b) felt
(c) located (d) carried
(e) found
9. (a) worried (b) rough
(c) irritable (d) sensitive
(e) pretty
10. (a) trust (b) assured
(c) wanted (d) think
(e) knew
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