Question

a) Fill in each of the numbered blanks with the correct form of the word given in
brackets. Do not copy the passage but write in correct serial order the word or
phrase appropriate to the blank space.
14)
Example: (0) told.
My guide (0)
(tell) me if I wanted to meet these people I would have
to walk two miles. We finally (1)
(reach) a village where I
(2).................... (meet) a lady whose age I (3) ................... (can) not
immediately make out. My translator (4)
(find) it difficult to
interpret the lady's words because her dialect was quite different. She
(5).................... (is) a dark-skinned and dark-haired lady, .
She must have been around seventy years old, but there was no grey in her hair.
She obviously could not afford to dye her hair. So what was her secret? Nobody
...................... (know). It must have been a 'secret common to all for not one
person in the whole village (7).......
(has) a trace of grey hair. I (8)
(think) about it for a long time.​

Answer 1

Answer:

(1) reached

(2)met

(3)could

(4)found

(5)is

(6)knows

(7)has

(8)thought