Direction: In the following questions, you have following two brief passages with 10 questions in Passage I and 5 questions in Passage II. Read the passages carefully and fill in the blanks with suitable words out of the four alternatives given.

PASSAGE I
Any regular viewer of programmes on the television will certainly have some reservations about commercials. When television shows are (591) good, the commercials that (592) them are a disgrace. One of the many bad (593) of commercials is their loudness. They seem to be (594) as loud as the program and the viewer is almost (595) when they come on. Any attempt (596) conversation during commercials is futile. Commercials also take up too much time and (597) too often. The impression one (598) gets is that the shows are sandwiched in (599) long periods of advertising, all of it the same. Often commercials (600) a show at a particularly inappropriate time.

PASSAGE II
It seems there was no Marina beach during the 1700's. The (601) developed only after the construction (602) the Madras harbour in the (603) century. It should be remembered (604) any kind of developmental activity (605) the coast will have an impact on the adjoining regions.