Exercise-117
In the following passages, one word has been omitted in each line against which a blank space is given. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined.
Before | Word | After | ||
The spectacle a dying animal affects | (a) | …… | …… | …… |
us painfully as we can its struggles. | (b) | …… | …… | …… |
The agony of an animal leaves us indifferent | (c) | …… | …… | …… |
to a being eyes a million times more | (d) | …… | …… | …… |
sensitive ours, the struggle of a dying | (e) | …… | …… | …… |
would visible and therefore, distressing. | (f) | …… | …… | …… |
Bos’s instrument endows with this | (g) | …… | …… | …… |
more microscopic acuteness of vision. | (h) | …… | …… | …… |
Answers:-
Before | Word | After | |
(a) | spectacle | of | a |
(b) | can | see | its |
(c) | the | unseen | agony |
(d) | being | having | eyes |
(e) | sensitive | than | ours |
(f) | would | be | visible |
(g) | endows | us | with |
(h) | more | than | microscopic |
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Exercise-118
In the following passages, one word has been omitted in each line against which a blank space is given. Write the missing word along with the word that comes before and the word that comes after it. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined.
Before | Word | After | ||
Dreaming is common and natural | (a) | …… | …… | …… |
activity of mind when we are asleep. But | (b) | …… | …… | …… |
the word ‘dream’ means ambition, a | (c) | …… | …… | …… |
keen desire life. In that sense I have a | (d) | …… | …… | …… |
modest dream. I wish to qualify medical | (e) | …… | …… | …… |
profession. To me, a doctor | (f) | …… | …… | …… |
next to God as protector life. He | (g) | …… | …… | …… |
provides relief to crying patients. He cures diseases. | (h) | …… | …… | …… |
Answers:-
Before | Word | After | |
(a) | is | a | common |
(b) | of | the | mind |
(c) | dream | also | means |
(d) | desire | in | life |
(e) | qualify | for | medical |
(f) | doctor | is | next |
(g) | protector | of | life |
(h) | to | the | crying |