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.
Happy is the man who ##QUESTION_1## the habit of reading when he is young. He has secured a life-long source of ##QUESTION_2## instruction and inspiration. So long as he has his beloved books he need ##QUESTION_3## feel lonely. He always has a pleasant ##QUESTION_4## of leisure moments. He is the ##QUESTION_5## of wealth more precious than gold.##QUESTION_6## indeed is the man who does not read and ##QUESTION_7## is his life.##QUESTION_8## gives the highest kind of pleasure. When we are ##QUESTION_9## it is a healthy recreation to lose ##QUESTION_10## in the company of books.

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.
Man’s basic aggressiveness is a fact and is the emotional factor for all the bloody violence that has marked human history since the beginning. His technology has never been as perfectly 61 as in the weapons he makes to 62 his brothers. The plough has changed very 63 in design from the time man took 64 cultivation. But swords have not become 65 and the rifle, with which one man kills another, is a 66 in comparison with the stone and 67 with which he used to 68 his adversaries in the earliest stage of civilisation. Nuclear 69 has designs that nature can never 70. They are wonders of technological creation.