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.

Ans:2
The most suitable option here is option (b) which also matches with the context of the passage and the line. Theoretical, climb and network are not in a right form to be used in a given blank. Hence these are grammatically incorrect. Allow does not fit contextually.

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.

Ans:3
The most appropriate option here is option (c) which suits in the given blank as the author talks about the world stories create that is being destroyed and then rebuilt that is the originally built world is broken and built again.
Inspected means examined (someone or something) to ensure that they reach an official standard.
Dreamt means indulge in daydreams or fantasies about something greatly desired.

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.

Ans:1
The most suitable option to be filled in the blank is absurd which means illogical. In the statement the author is talking about making illogical world familiar, some with a voice that colonizes your thoughts. Rest of all the options are irrelevant. Revised means reviewed.
Availed means utilized.
Captured means taken into one’s possession or control by force.

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.

Ans:3
Option (c) is the most suitable choice to be filled in the given blank.
Intellect means the faculty of reasoning and understanding objectively, especially with regard to abstract matters.
Consolation means the comfort received by a person after a loss or disappointment.
Emerging means becoming apparent or prominent.
Growth means extension.

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.

Ans:4
‘Guidance’ can only be used in the given blank. As the reader can only offer guidance which is the same thing that any good writer can offer you with the story itself. Rest of all the options are irrelevant.
Simplicity means the quality or condition of being easy to understand or do.
Dramatize means exaggerate the seriousness or importance of (an incident or situation).
Escape means an act of breaking free from confinement or control.

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).

Ans:4
The appropriate word here to be used is ‘approach’. The sentence implies to say that over the last some years a different outlook to economics has been slowly birthing. Act, restrain, agreement and judgment are inappropriate words to be used here.

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).

Ans:3
The most suitable word to be used here in the blank is ‘diminishing’ which means reducing. This is so because here returns are referred where increasing is already mentioned .Now a comparison is needed which will require to use a word ‘diminishing’. So increasing as well as reducing returns could be present in an economic situation.

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).

Ans:2
The most suitable word to be used here is ‘constantly’. This is so because here it is given that the economy is not something given and existing but forms from a developing set of institutions. Institutions could only be constantly developing and not defectively, worthlessly or disloyally developing. Arranged is not the proper form to be used here. Hence constantly is the word to be used.

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).

Ans:1
Option (a) is the suitable choice to be used here. Innovations means change, altering, a new method, altering. Here a developing set of institutions, arrangements, and technological innovations that are new methods are referred. Reductions, drawings, affirmation and distractions cannot be used with technological as they do not go with the context of the sentence.

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).

Ans:5
Here option (e) is the appropriate answer. As along with other words like strategize, explore, forecast, compete, learn, innovate, the word that can only be used is adapt which goes with the context. Rest all words are not in context. Clash means a violent confrontation.
Annoy means make (someone) a little angry; irritate.

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