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.”

Direction: Passage-II
Since the U.S. led alliance toppled the Taliban (971) November 2001, women and girls in Afghanistan have (972) greater freedom to participate in public life and (973) to education, health care, and employment. This is the case particularly in the (974), Kabul, where the deployment of foreign military forces under the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has helped bring (975) security. Even in Kabul, however, many Afghan women still face constant (976) to their personal security from other civilians or armed men belonging to various political (977). Outside Kabul, the situation is one of acute general lawlessness and insecurity, as there is no ISAF presence and rival warlords control security conditions. In these areas, more than in Kabul, Afghan women continue to (978) serious threats to their physical safety, which (979) them the opportunity to exercise their basic human rights and to participate fully in the rebuilding of their (980).