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Hawthorne had not ##QUESTION_1## this sudden dismissal. He ##QUESTION_2## thought they would scold him as usual, ##QUESTION_3## now he had no job. What ##QUESTION_4## he tell Sophia ? Sophia ##QUESTION_5## Hawthorne’s wife. He had not told her ##QUESTION_6## about his troubles ##QUESTION_7## the office. How was he going to support her ##QUESTION_8## himself from now on ? He walked home slowly. ##QUESTION_9## his wife saw him, he ##QUESTION_10## miserable.

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.
I have always been nervous and keyed up at onset of any operation. With Louwtzie next to me, I became even more tense. There was a sense of ##QUESTION_1## between us which did not belong in the theatre. It was something electrical, a sort of involuntary interlocking of our ##QUESTION_2## selves, which she could not ##QUESTION_3## any more than I would. Inevitably, this was a ##QUESTION_4## at the operating table. The ritual of command and interlacing of hands and instruments demand a totally different ##QUESTION_5##.

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.
One of the myths relevant to the contemporary human condition is that of Prometheus. It has positive and optimistic ##QUESTION_1##. Man can better himself and aspire ##QUESTION_2## higher worlds through his own efforts, ##QUESTION_3##, in the process, he may ##QUESTION_4## terrible tribulations, wars, revolutions, tortures of the ##QUESTION_5## and the spirit. Time and again he would be tempted to throw ##QUESTION_6## the towel, or retire into ##QUESTION_7## and to the dream world of drugs and ##QUESTION_8##. But he will not, if made of the ##QUESTION_9## of Prometheus, be diverted. He will stick ##QUESTION_10##. his goal, as Prometheus did in stealing fire from the Gods, suffering
terrible retribution for his pains.