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Passage Completion Test
Passage Completion Test Test

Passage 3 34. (A) invariably
(B) constantly
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy and at the very (26) ( C) interestingly
_____ of their motives, there lies a mystery. Writing a book (D) seldom
is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long (27) _____ of
some painful illness. One would never undertake such a 35. (A) introduced
thing if one were not (28) _____ by some demon whom one (B) moved
can neither (29) _____ nor understand. For all one knows ( C) betrayed
that demon is simply the same (30) _____ that makes a (D) inspired
person (31) _____ for attention and yet it is also true that one
can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to
Passage 4
(32) _____ one’s own personality. Good prose is like a
windowpane. I cannot say with certainty which of my To change the hearts of the (36) _____ in such a way as to
motives are the strongest but I know which of them deserve o make it (37) _____ for them to indulge in these (38) _____
be followed. And (33) _____ through my work, I see that is without changing the (39) _____ of the governments that
it (34) _____ where I lacked a political purpose that wrote rule over (40) _____ is an impossibility when (41) _____
lifeless books and was (35) _____ into purple passages and reaches that point it will (42) _____ to be human, it will
sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and rosy become a (43) _____ of supermen, of gods and it will no
descriptions. (44) _____ need the guidance of (45) _____ of the stature
of Mahatma Gandhi.
26. (A) idea
(B) bottom 36. (A) mobs
( C) consideration (B) men
( C) crowd
(D) mention
(D) groups
27. (A) bout 37. (A) unlikely
(B) source (B) likely
( C) condition ( C) possible
(D) feeling
(D) impossible
28. (A) driven on 38. (A) cruelties
(B) driven at (B) misdeeds
( C) driven out ( C) actions
(D) driven for (D) brutalities
29. (A) like 39. (A) minds
(B) help (B) hearts
( C) resist ( C) decisions
(D) conquer (D) stands

30. (A) sense 40. (A) us
(B) instinct (B) people
( C) feeling ( C) them
(D) desire (D) you
41. (A) humanity
31. (A) play
(B) look (B) life
( C) desire ( C) behaviour
(D) squall (D) nature
42. (A) start
32. (A) change
(B) continue
(B) overcome ( C) begin
( C) deface (D) cease
(D) efface
43. (A) committee
33. (A) looking at (B) body
(B) looking back ( C) organisation
( C) looking for (D) government
(D) looking in
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