Exercise-5
Complete the passage given below by choosing the appropriate options:
It (a) _________ (have been/has been/had been/will be) so for generations. The Patil family (b) _________ (were/had been/were being/had) landowners without being cultivators. One morning while the tenants (c) _________ (was/were/had been/have been) cultivating the land, there (d) _________ (were/was/had been/ was being) an order from the Deputy Collector that the land was (e) _________ (to be /being /was /were) to taken away from the landlord and was to be (f) ______ (give/given/being given /gave )to the tenants. Ramsa Patil (g)_______ (had been/was being/could be/shall be) made a poor man by the new law. Ramsa (h) _________ (was/had been/will be/was being) promised a compensation but had never got one. Moreover, the law did not seem to improve the condition of the farmers.
Answers:
(a) had been (b) were
(c) were (d) was
(e) being (f) given
(g) could be (h) had been
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Exercise-6
Choose the best word from the options given in the brackets to complete the following passage:
The rag pickers of India (a) ______ (presented/present/will present/may present) a pitiable sight. It is poverty that (b) ______ (goad/goads/will goad/may goad) them to resort to rag picking. Day in and day out they may be (c) ______ (see/seen/will be seen/are being seen) on the roads, the lanes and the by lanes of a city or town looking for cast-off clothes or something else showy or shoddy that (d) ______ (may/will/shall/could) sell. More often than not, it is children who (e) ______ (have taken/ will take/shall take/take) to rag picking. But some young men and women are also (f) ______ (force/ forced/will force/may force) to take up the showy trade to make both ends meet. Why should innocent children who should be at school at this age (g) ______ (did/do/had done/may do) this filthy job? It is because their parents are often too poor to support them. So they (h) _______ (neglected/neglect/may neglect/shall neglect) them and abandon them to face the cruel world on their own.
Answers:
(a) present (b) goads
(c) seen (d) will
(e) have taken (f) forced
(g) do (h) neglect
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