Direction: In the following questions, in the passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.

I will always (991) the trip I made to the zoo in 1988. It was then that I (992) measles from one of my friends. Peter, who had (993) along too.

Before he met us at the zoo, he had gone to visit his cousin who was (994) from measles. The next day, Peter was (995) of a sore throat, a bad cold and high fever. When he was diagnosed by a doctor as having measles, his parents rang me up to warn me that I had been (996) to measles too. By the next day, I was also showing/having the same symptoms. My doctor (997) me to stay at home for the next two weeks.

I was quite pleased with the doctor’s instruction. I spent the time reading story-books, (998) to music and watching television. When I get bored, I would call up Peter, who also had to spend two weeks at home, for a chat. Unfortunately, the two weeks passed too/by quickly. When we (999) to school, we had to work twice as hard to (1000) with our classmates. It was definitely not worth the ‘holiday’.

Direction: Passage-III
One day when king Rama was sitting on his (981) his ring fell off. When it touched the earth, it made a hole in the ground and disappeared into it. It was (982). His trusty henchman, Hanuman, was (983) his feet. Rama said to Hanuman, “Look, my ring is lost. (984) it for me.”

Now Hanuman can enter any hole, no matter how tiny. He had the power to become the smallest of the small and larger than the largest thing. So he took on a (985) form and went down the hole.

He went and went and went and (986) fell into the netherworld. There were women down there. “Look, a tiny monkey ! It’s fallen from above? Then they caught him and placed him on a platter (thali). The King of Spirits (bhut), who lives in the netherworld, likes to eat animals. So Hanuman was sent to him as part of his dinner, along with his vegetables. Hanuman sat on the platter, (987) what to do.

While this was going on in the netherworld, Rama sat on his throne on the earth above. The (988) Vasistha and the (989) Brahma came to see him. They said to Rama, “We want to talk privately with you. We don’t want anyone to (990) what we say or interrupt it. Do we agree ?” “All right.” said Rama, “We’ll talk.”