Direction: In the following questions, you have following 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
Parents tend to spoil their own children either by over-indulgence or by deprivation. Childhood should be the time for (621) from primary selfishness to sharing, for learning to (622) with deprivation and disappointment and learning to (623) failure, since breaking a toy and forgetting a homework assignment are (624) serious than breaking a marriage or forgetting to prepare for career advancement. But (625) deprivation, as is common in (626) families, leaves many children (627) the stage of personal gratification. They lack resources for developing a sense of (628) towards others and a wish to care for them. And children (629) be poor to be underprivileged. The (630) are also deprived, cheated out of learning how to face life.

PASSAGE-II
Auctions are public (631) of goods, conducted by an (632) auctioneer. He encourages buyers to (633) higher prices and finally names the (634) bidder as the buyer of the goods. This is called ‘knocking down’ the goods, for when the bidding ends the auctioneer (635). a small hammer on a table in front of him.

Direction: In the following questions, you have following 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, out of the four alternatives given.

PASSAGE -I
Without water (606) animal can survive. In desert regions, the greatest (607) to life is drying up. But many creatures are able to make use of (608) little water that exists in arid areas. One of nature’s masterpieces , (609) creatures equipped to (610) with desert life is the hardy camel. There are several stories describing the (611) endurance of these animals. It is said that camels can (612) a distance of about 800 miles in eight days through continuous travel (613) an intake of a single drop of water. The popular (614) in a way is (615) . Water is indeed stored, but in the form of fat.

PASSAGE - II
About a million different species (616) insects have been identified. Yet little is (617) about some of them. Although insects vary so much in their shape and (618) they all have the (619) structure. All insects normally (620) six legs.