Direction: In the following questions, you have 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
All forms of art have developed from religion (531) religious services. This is also true (532) writing poetry, developed from the (533) sung in (534) of the early Gods, or from incantations sung (535) bring rain or victory in battle. Plays (536) from the dances (537) in (538) of the Gods. The novel has developed from the stories, (539) about the Gods. A novel is a story that is based (540) real life.

PASSAGE-II
Arabia is a (541) sandy desert. At day time, the sand becomes fiery. There are springs here and there (542) which grass, fig and palm trees grow and make a cool, shady (543) where the Arabs live in easily movable tents. They move from place to place in (544 ) of food. They load the (545) and move for miles as if he is the ship of the desert.