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DIRECTIONS (Qs. 1-5) : In the following passage some of
the words 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. 

A team of Indian engineers   1    shown that digital photographs of

the hand may   2    cholesterol levels in the body and serve as an
early warning signal   3    poor lipid health without a standard blood
test. Researchers believe the programme may be   4   in the future
and   5    into mobile phones to enable it to analyses digital images
of the hand captured in the camera on a mobile phone. 

                                                 (SSC Sub. Ins. 2015)

1. (a) has been   (b) are
    (c) have       (d) has  

 

2. (a) conceal   (b) conjecture
    (c) reveal      (d) conduct

3. (a) of     (b) before
    (c) at      (d) by

4. (a) resolved     (b) refined
    (c) retracted     (d) recorded

5. (a) formulated    (b) featured
    (c) loaded           (d) fixed

DIRECTIONS (Qs. 6-15) : In the following passage some of
the words have been left out, Read the passage carefully and
choose the correct answer to each question out of the four
alternative and fill in the blanks.

In civilised life is a rule   6   violence, against taking   7   into
our hands. It is a rule which   8    of us observe so often, indeed,
that a great   9    of people go through life  10   orderliness and
non-violence as part of the scheme of nature. But when 
  11    comes into their midst   12    refuses to observe the current rules, and   13   the simple rule that might is right, the law abiding
members    14    society do not know what to do, and look on in
   15    bewildered confusion.

                                   (SSC CHSL 2015)

6. (a) after       (b) at
    (c) against   (d) upon

7. (a) police   (b) people
    (c) rule       (d) law

8. (a) most   (b) none
    (c) many   (d) every

9. (a) amount   (b) number
    (c) capacity  (d) sum

10. (a) not expecting   (b) expecting
      (c) not accepting   (d) accepting

11. (a) no one   (b) any one
      (c) none      (d) everyone

12. (a) who     (b) how
      (c) where  (d) whom

13. (a) following  (b) followed
      (c) follows      (d) follow

14. (a) of   (b) at
      (c) in    (d) on

15. (a) helping    (b) helped
      (c) helpless   (d) helpful

1.(d) , 2.(c) , 3.(a) , 4.(b) , 5.(c) , 6.(c) , 7.(d) , 8.(c) , 9.(b) , 10.(b) , 11.(b) , 12.(a) , 13.(c) , 14.(a) , 15.(c)