In the following passage some of the word have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.
The Red Indian __(187_ for the arrival of the bison. The beasts, which  come only once a year, are a good source of meat and hide. The Red Indians__(188)__ to survive the cold, bitter winter.
Tikki, the young boy, __(189)__ to look out for the herd’s arrival. Everyday, he _(190)_top of the hill to see if he could spot them on the vast horizon.
One night, while he__(191)__, the ground shook __(192)_ and his bag of arrows fell off from its book on the wall. Tikki __(193)___ of his wigwam and felt a strong gust of wind and dust gush past him. Shouting excitedly, he ran to the other wigwams and woke everyone up. A big fire _(194)_ built and the Red Indians danced around it, giving praises to their God who had, at last, __(195)__ their food and clothing of animal hide. The next morning, all to hunt down the beasts to the warriors _(196)_ to hunt down the beasts which were grazing near the river.

Mark your answer at Question (195).

Rewrite the sentence in direct speech.

 Malini said that she would go for the meeting.

Fill in the blanks by choosing an appropriate alternative. 

The committee…………………………. divided on the issue. 

Read the passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.

Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us into some corner of the world where people are not interested in minutes and seconds. The unpunctuality of the orient, for example is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-times and regular train services. For a modern American or Englishman, waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accepts the blank hours with linked together by amazingly sensitive, near-instantaneous communications. Human work will move out of the factory and mass office into the community and the home. Machines will be synchronized, as some already are, to the billionth of a second; men will be de-synchronized. The factory whistle will vanish. Even the clock, “the key machine of the modern industrial age” as Lewis Mumford called it a generation ago, will lose some of its power over humans, as distinct from purely technological affairs. Simultaneously, the organisation needed to control technology shift from bureaucracy to Ad-hocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future.
 In such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs, it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical judgments, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relationships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in C.P. Snow’s compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.

Near-instantaneous communications may be regarded as a symbol of

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Violence takes a heavy toll and affects public life ______. High or low, known or unknown, rich or poor, popular or unpopular, no one is safe or secure today. It appears that one can harm anybody at any time and at ______. A mad and sad rat race is on to make money and ______ power at any cost and by any means. The result is that no political party or group can now ______ into claim to total innocence in so far as ______ of violence against innocent person for personal or political gains is concerned. Violent demonstrations, rallies, hartals have become the order of the day.

so far as ______ of violence against innocent person.

Fill in the blank with the correct option:
She must _________ herself to her new surroundings.

Direction: In the following questions, a sentence has been given in Active voice. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive voice.

A few bags were bought by me.

Directions: The following question has four different sentences. Select the most preferable sentence with respect to grammar, meaning, and usage. If all four sentences are correct or all of them are incorrect, mark option 5" as your answer.

Option