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.

Direction: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out and the blanks have been numbered from 91 to 100. 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.
The Aryans ##QUESTION_1## about northern Asia and Europe over the wide grasslands. But as their numbers grew and the climate became drier and the land ##QUESTION_2##, there was not ##QUESTION_3## food for all of them to eat. ##QUESTION_4## they were forced to move to other parts of the world in search of ##QUESTION_5##. They spread out all over Europe and ##QUESTION_6## to India, Persia and Mesopotamia. Thus we find that nearly all the people of Europe and northern India and Persia and Mesopotamia, although they differ so much ##QUESTION_7## each other now, are really descendants from the same ##QUESTION_8##, the Aryans. Of course this was very long ##QUESTION_9## and since then much has happened and races have got mixed up to a large extent. The Aryans are, ##QUESTION_10##, one great ancestral race of the people of the world today.