Instructions:In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.

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Comprehension: In a rare show of honesty, a gardener of the irrigation department has handed (1)______ to the police 57 tolas of gold (2)______ by him while working in the (3)______ of the superintending engineer’s bungalow in Raipur. The (4)______in turn has handed over the (5)______ to the Central Excise and Customs Department (6)______investigation. It was in June this year (7)______ Ramdayal found a tiny plastic box, meticulously (8)______ with polythene, buried six inches (9)______ under a Banyan tree, while digging the garden. He (10)______ the box and took it to his house behind the bungalow and was dazzled to find that it contained biscuits, bangles and coins all of gold.

111)

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.10.

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A)

picked on

B)

picked in

C)

picked over

D)

picked up

Instructions:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
Comprehension:
Hunter-gatherer culture was the way of life for early humans until around 11,000 to 12,000 years ago. The lifestyle of hunter-gatherers was (1) ______ on hunting animals and foraging for food. Anthropologists (2)______ discovered evidence for the practice of hunter-gatherer culture (3)______ modern humans (Homo sapiens) and their distant ancestors dating as (4)______ back as two million years ago. Before the (5)______ of hunter-gatherer culture, earlier groups relied on (6)______practice of scavenging animal remains that predators left (7)______. Because hunter-gatherers did not rely on agriculture, (8)______ used mobility as a survival strategy. Indeed, (9)______ lifestyle required access to large areas of (10)______ to find the food they needed for survival.

112)

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.1.

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A)

based

B)

basing

C)

base

D)

bases

113)

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.2.

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A)

have

B)

has

C)

had

D)

having

114)

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.3.

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A)

with

B)

from

C)

by

D)

to

115)

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.4.

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A)

far

B)

distant

C)

near

D)

farther

116)

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.5.

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A)

dependence

B)

experience

C)

emergence

D)

departure

117)

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.6.

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A)

an

B)

one

C)

the

D)

a

118)

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.7.

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A)

before

B)

beyond

C)

beneath

D)

behind

119)

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.8.

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A)

them

B)

he

C)

they

D)

we

120)

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank No.9.

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A)

their

B)

our

C)

theirs

D)

its