Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

When Anil passed his final university examination and got his (356) he decided to (357) and invited all his friends to a party to be (358) the following Sunday. He spent most of that Saturday (359) things ready and at 7.40 the first guest arrived. After that a steady (360) of people (361) and Anil was busy chatting to people and introducing them to one another. Anil had a wide (362) of friends and not everyone at the party knew everyone (363). ‘A party is always a good way to break the (364) and get people talking’, Anil thought. The party soon got going and there was a feeling of relief at the (365) that the examinations were over and that a long summer holiday lay ahead.

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

India and 25 other countries agreed to the Copenhagen Accord even as other developing countries accepted it as an irreversible decision later. The Accord came out of (346) bargaining lasting almost 20 hours among (347) of governments of some of the most (348) countries of the world. At the (349) of the day on Saturday, India (350) to have given ground on some (351) but blocked intrusion on other red lines. It had become (352) within the first week of the (353) that the best, even the four emerging and (354) economies of the developing world were going to defend the (355) economic resource sharing regimes.