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Exercise-1
In the following passages, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with word that comes before and the word that comes after it. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined:
| Before | Word | After | ||
| In the bejewelled beauty Lakshadweep, the most | (a) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
| glittering is Minicoy, southernmost island of the | (b) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
| archipelago. You can tell the difference even you | (c) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
| land at the jetty. Dressed jeans and T-shirts, the wiry, | (d) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
| muscular young man truly children of the sea. | (e) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
| Pulling the ropes, steering or piloting, there no | (f) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
| doubt they were born on the sea and are meant for | (g) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
| the sea Half of the male population the sailor. | (h) | ……. | ……. | ……. |
Answers
| Before | Word | After | |
| (a) | beauty | of | Lakshadweep |
| (b) | Minicoy, | the | southernmost |
| (c) | even | as | you |
| (d) | Dressed | in | jeans |
| (e) | man | are | truly |
| (f) | there | is | no |
| (g) | days | and | he |
| (h) | house | for | a |
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Exercise-2
In the following passages, one word has been omitted in each line. Write the missing word along with word that comes before and the word that comes after it. Ensure that the word that forms your answer is underlined:
| Before | Word | After | ||
| In the process pasteurisation, milk, wine, | (a) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| butter, etc. are heated up a certain | (b) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| temperature then quickly chilled. This | (c) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| kills the bacteria them. If milk is | (d) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| heated up to 63° 30 minutes in between | (e) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| 72°-85° for 16 seconds and then chilled to 10° less, | (f) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| the bacteria present in it destroyed. | (g) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
| Pasteurisation protects milk being spoiled. | (h) | …….. | …….. | …….. |
