Gap Filling Exercises for class 8 (Solved)Exercise-59&60

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Exercise-59

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

 A great area of Arabia is desert. The sand is so hot that you (a)………..walk over (b) ………..With your bare feet in the daytime. Here and there in the desert (c) ………..springs of water that come (d) ……….. deep down under the ground: so deep that the sun (e) ………..dry them up. (f) ………..springs are very few and far  apart, but wherever there is (g) ………..,green grass  very soon covers (h) ………..ground.

Answers:-
(a) can’t
(b) it
(c) are
(d) from
(e) can’t
(f) These
(g) one
(h) the

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Exercise-60

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

 Tourism has emerged (a)…………….the world’s largest industry. Growing rapidly (b) ……………. the last two decades, today it accounts (c) …………… 6% of world output and employs some 100 million  people (d) …………….the globe (e) …………….the end of  the second world war, it (f) ……………. developed immense revenue and stands today (g)…………….a unique natural renewable resource industry. The contribution of tourism can be nowhere seen (h) …………..clearly than on the economic front. A study (i)……………….by the United Nations has shown  that developing countries (j)…………….. reap handsome benefits out of tourism .

Answers:-

(a) as
(b) since
(c) for
(d) across
(e) After
(f) has
(g) as
(h) more
(i) conducted/held
(j) can

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