Exercise-87
Complete the following passage by choosing the most appropriate options from the ones given below.
He (a)________ the session with a prayer, prolonging it until the others join and the valleys echo with the chants, (b)_______ the cry of jackals. Time was when he (c) _______his stories to the accompaniment of musical instruments, but now he depends only on himself. The films (d) away from all the fiddlers and crooners, who have no time nowadays to stand at the back of an old story-teller and fill his pauses with music.
(a)(i) began (ii) begin (iii) begins (iv) is beginning
(b) (i) drowned (ii) drown (iii) drowns (iv) drowning
(c) (i) was narrating (ii) narrated (iii) narrates (iv) had narrated
(d) (i) have taken (ii) had taken (iii) has taken (iv) did take
Answers:
(a) (iii) begins
(b) (iv) drowning
(c) (ii) narrated
(d) (i) have taken
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Exercise-88
Complete the following passage by choosing the most appropriate options from the ones given below.
Research _________(a) that honey-bees have a very strong nose that (b) ________them smell a lot more than just sweet nectar. A company in Britain has made use of this sense and (c) ______ to train bees (d)_______ bombs and drugs. Soon they will be put to work at the airport as well.
(a) (i) showed (ii) showing (iii) shows (iv) shown
(b) (i) helped (ii) helps (iii) is helping (iv) help
(c) (i) was managing (ii) manage (iii) manages (iv) managed
(d) (i) for detecting (ii) to detecting (iii) in detecting (iv) at detecting
Answers:
(a) (iii) shows
(b) (ii) helps
(c)(iv) managed
(d) (i) for detecting
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