Question

(B) Complete any SIX of the sentences with words from the brackets :
(Process, oppression, integrated, diversity, in transition, hardships, in succession, decline,
flow, symbol).
(i) Language shift is the technical name for the
by which a group of people
move from one first language to a new first language.
(in) One feature of Indian society is the ................. of languages that are spoken there.
The country has more than 1,600 different languages.
(iii) Many immigrants to America left Europe to escape the religious .............. that caused
friends and family members to suffer.
(iv) Nineteenth-century Europe was a continent .... . Machines were replacing
workers in agriculture and unemployment was rising.
(v) The Statue of Liberty may be the worlds' best known
of freedom. For
millions of immigrants, it signified the hope of a better future.
(vi) For three years .............. in the 1840s, a new disease destroyed the potatoes in Ireland.
(vii) In the late 1840s, the .............. of Irish immigrants into the United States became
very strong
(viii) Before 1840, the population of Ireland had reached over 8 million. Then it
rapidly and by 1890 it was only 5 million.
(ix) Life in America had its own
for Irish immigrants in the 1850s. Because
of anti-Irish prejudice, they had difficulties in getting good jobs.
1x6=6
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Answer 1

1. process
2. diversity
3. decline
4. in transition
5. symbol
6. in succession