Direction: In the following three 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.

PASSAGE I
If you prefer mountains (506) deserts, try Darjeeling, West Bengal’s hill resort that (507) at the foothills of the mighty Himalayas. (508), while in Bengal, if your spirit of adventure gets the better of you, (509) the ferry to the Sunderbans, the world’s largest delta. But if these places do not attract you, there’s Bhutan, the quiet Himalayan Kingdom, (510) West Bengal.

PASSAGE II
No communication has ever provided so many people with as (511) a range of new (512) as television has. Without (513) their homes, people can watch Government officials (514) important functions and see how people in (515) lands look and live. Television takes its (516) to deserts, jungles and even the sea floor. Television gives us a (517) of real life tragedy as when it comes to the (518) of war, natural disasters and poverty. It also (519) moments of great triumph, such as when the astronaut just (520) his foot on the moon.

PASSAGE III
An archaeologist studies the (521) and from the (522) he finds, he is able to (523) the daily lives of men and women who lived thousands of years ago. He makes a (524) study of those things which those men and women left (525) them. From the (526) he judges the size of the animals theirowners could kill, from their tools he learns what (527) they had mastered and from their pots, needles and combs, he (528) the domestic skills of their (529). Thus it has been possible to write a generally (530) account of human evolution going back some half a million years.