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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.

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.

Indu ‘didda’ loved to wear saris. Her (336) collections, which Sonia inherited, were remarkable for not only (337) taste, but also the (338) of weaves and traditional representations. I do not think any other public figure (339) the first five decades after independence was so (340) to acquire saris of distinct (341) as ‘didda’ did. (342) you noticed this fact when meeting her, you not only joined her circle of (343) persons on traditional textiles, (344) also got a chance to bring her (345) to the cause you were espousing. Now this was very rare.