Gap Filling Exercises for class 8 (Solved)Exercise-57&58

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Exercise-57

Choose the best word from the options given to complete the following passage:

The Chief Minister of Delhi (a) …………… a press conference yesterday on unprecedented price rise of

 vegetables (b) ……………pulses in the capital. She pointed Out (c) ……………torrential rains in south and north India (d) ……………damaged vegetables and pulses crops. This has badly (e) …………… the supply of these 220 commodities to the capital. Stockiest too (f)…………….stored these items to create artificial shortage and to (g) ……………profits. Such factors have created scarcity of (h) ……………items and increase their prices. Food and Supply Department has (i) ……………ordered to keep a  at strict vigil (j) …………… dishonest traders.

Answers:

(a) held
(b) and
(c) that
(d) have
(e) affected
(f) have
(g) gain/earn
(h) these/food
(i) been
(j) on

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Exercise-58

Choose the best word from the options given to complete the following passage:

A curtain merely treated with insecticide (a)………………help save your life. A recent study (b) ………………  that (c) ……………… curtains treated with insecticide can reduce the incidence (d) ……………… cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) — a disease (e) ………………has fatal, debilitating (f)   ……………… deforming consequences in (g) ………………   form of skin ulcers. The disease is caused (h) ………………the leishmania parasite,

Answers:-

(a) can
(b) says/states
(c) the
(d) of
(e) that
(f) and
(g) the
(h) by

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