Directions:(1-5)In the following passage, some of the words have been left out, each of which is indicated by a number. Find the suitable word from the options given against each number and fill up the blanks with appropriate words to make the paragraph meaningfully complete.
1.One thing that’s great about stories is how quickly they can ________(1)__________ your life. Maybe you start reading one over your lunch break and, if it’s the right one, before that peanut butter cup you brought for dessert even has a chance to finish its melting shape-shift into some kind of sugary cement, the whole world has been destroyed around you and then _________(2)__________, and nothing is quite the same again. This happens whether you like it or not. Great stories practice this violent beauty on you in a variety of ways: some by making an ________(3)____________ world familiar (or vice versa), some with a slow burn , some with a voice that colonizes your thoughts. Some do it quietly, almost without you even noticing, and some do it with high wire acts of imagination or ________(4)_________ that make you into a breathless witness. The trick, then, is finding the right story, one that is capable of such a thing. This is no easy task. Tastes differ, of course, and it can be confusing to spot the small boat of a great story on the wide sea of fiction. Ultimately what any reader can offer you in terms of _________(5)________ is actually the same thing that any good writer can offer you with the story itself.
2.One thing that’s great about stories is how quickly they can ________(1)__________ your life. Maybe you start reading one over your lunch break and, if it’s the right one, before that peanut butter cup you brought for dessert even has a chance to finish its melting shape-shift into some kind of sugary cement, the whole world has been destroyed around you and then _________(2)__________, and nothing is quite the same again. This happens whether you like it or not. Great stories practice this violent beauty on you in a variety of ways: some by making an ________(3)____________ world familiar (or vice versa), some with a slow burn , some with a voice that colonizes your thoughts. Some do it quietly, almost without you even noticing, and some do it with high wire acts of imagination or ________(4)_________ that make you into a breathless witness. The trick, then, is finding the right story, one that is capable of such a thing. This is no easy task. Tastes differ, of course, and it can be confusing to spot the small boat of a great story on the wide sea of fiction. Ultimately what any reader can offer you in terms of _________(5)________ is actually the same thing that any good writer can offer you with the story itself.
3.One thing that’s great about stories is how quickly they can ________(1)__________ your life. Maybe you start reading one over your lunch break and, if it’s the right one, before that peanut butter cup you brought for dessert even has a chance to finish its melting shape-shift into some kind of sugary cement, the whole world has been destroyed around you and then _________(2)__________, and nothing is quite the same again. This happens whether you like it or not. Great stories practice this violent beauty on you in a variety of ways: some by making an ________(3)____________ world familiar (or vice versa), some with a slow burn , some with a voice that colonizes your thoughts. Some do it quietly, almost without you even noticing, and some do it with high wire acts of imagination or ________(4)_________ that make you into a breathless witness. The trick, then, is finding the right story, one that is capable of such a thing. This is no easy task. Tastes differ, of course, and it can be confusing to spot the small boat of a great story on the wide sea of fiction. Ultimately what any reader can offer you in terms of _________(5)________ is actually the same thing that any good writer can offer you with the story itself.
4.One thing that’s great about stories is how quickly they can ________(1)__________ your life. Maybe you start reading one over your lunch break and, if it’s the right one, before that peanut butter cup you brought for dessert even has a chance to finish its melting shape-shift into some kind of sugary cement, the whole world has been destroyed around you and then _________(2)__________, and nothing is quite the same again. This happens whether you like it or not. Great stories practice this violent beauty on you in a variety of ways: some by making an ________(3)____________ world familiar (or vice versa), some with a slow burn , some with a voice that colonizes your thoughts. Some do it quietly, almost without you even noticing, and some do it with high wire acts of imagination or ________(4)_________ that make you into a breathless witness. The trick, then, is finding the right story, one that is capable of such a thing. This is no easy task. Tastes differ, of course, and it can be confusing to spot the small boat of a great story on the wide sea of fiction. Ultimately what any reader can offer you in terms of _________(5)________ is actually the same thing that any good writer can offer you with the story itself.
5.One thing that’s great about stories is how quickly they can ________(1)__________ your life. Maybe you start reading one over your lunch break and, if it’s the right one, before that peanut butter cup you brought for dessert even has a chance to finish its melting shape-shift into some kind of sugary cement, the whole world has been destroyed around you and then _________(2)__________, and nothing is quite the same again. This happens whether you like it or not. Great stories practice this violent beauty on you in a variety of ways: some by making an ________(3)____________ world familiar (or vice versa), some with a slow burn , some with a voice that colonizes your thoughts. Some do it quietly, almost without you even noticing, and some do it with high wire acts of imagination or ________(4)_________ that make you into a breathless witness. The trick, then, is finding the right story, one that is capable of such a thing. This is no easy task. Tastes differ, of course, and it can be confusing to spot the small boat of a great story on the wide sea of fiction. Ultimately what any reader can offer you in terms of _________(5)________ is actually the same thing that any good writer can offer you with the story itself.
Directions:(6-10)In the following passage, some of the words have been left out, each of which is indicated by a number. Find the suitable word from the options given against each number and fill up the blanks with appropriate words to make the paragraph meaningfully complete.
6.Over the last twenty-five years, a different __________ (6) to economics has been slowly birthing, and slowly growing—complexity economics. Complexity economics holds that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium, that computation as well as mathematics is useful in economics, that increasing as well as ______________(7)returns may be present in an economic situation, and that the economy is not something given and existing but forms from a ______________(8) developing set of institutions, arrangements, and technological ____________(9). The economy is a vast and complicated set of arrangements and actions wherein agents—consumers firms, banks, investors government agencies—buy and sell, speculate, trade, oversee, bring products into being, offer services, invest in companies, strategize, explore, forecast, compete, learn, innovate and __________(10).
7.Over the last twenty-five years, a different __________ (6) to economics has been slowly birthing, and slowly growing—complexity economics. Complexity economics holds that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium, that computation as well as mathematics is useful in economics, that increasing as well as ______________(7)returns may be present in an economic situation, and that the economy is not something given and existing but forms from a ______________(8) developing set of institutions, arrangements, and technological ____________(9). The economy is a vast and complicated set of arrangements and actions wherein agents—consumers firms, banks, investors government agencies—buy and sell, speculate, trade, oversee, bring products into being, offer services, invest in companies, strategize, explore, forecast, compete, learn, innovate and __________(10).
8.Over the last twenty-five years, a different __________ (6) to economics has been slowly birthing, and slowly growing—complexity economics. Complexity economics holds that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium, that computation as well as mathematics is useful in economics, that increasing as well as ______________(7)returns may be present in an economic situation, and that the economy is not something given and existing but forms from a ______________(8) developing set of institutions, arrangements, and technological ____________(9). The economy is a vast and complicated set of arrangements and actions wherein agents—consumers firms, banks, investors government agencies—buy and sell, speculate, trade, oversee, bring products into being, offer services, invest in companies, strategize, explore, forecast, compete, learn, innovate and __________(10).
9.Over the last twenty-five years, a different __________ (6) to economics has been slowly birthing, and slowly growing—complexity economics. Complexity economics holds that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium, that computation as well as mathematics is useful in economics, that increasing as well as ______________(7)returns may be present in an economic situation, and that the economy is not something given and existing but forms from a ______________(8) developing set of institutions, arrangements, and technological ____________(9). The economy is a vast and complicated set of arrangements and actions wherein agents—consumers firms, banks, investors government agencies—buy and sell, speculate, trade, oversee, bring products into being, offer services, invest in companies, strategize, explore, forecast, compete, learn, innovate and __________(10).
10.Over the last twenty-five years, a different __________ (6) to economics has been slowly birthing, and slowly growing—complexity economics. Complexity economics holds that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium, that computation as well as mathematics is useful in economics, that increasing as well as ______________(7)returns may be present in an economic situation, and that the economy is not something given and existing but forms from a ______________(8) developing set of institutions, arrangements, and technological ____________(9). The economy is a vast and complicated set of arrangements and actions wherein agents—consumers firms, banks, investors government agencies—buy and sell, speculate, trade, oversee, bring products into being, offer services, invest in companies, strategize, explore, forecast, compete, learn, innovate and __________(10).