Question

c) In the following passage, 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 appropriate to the blank space.)
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Charles Lutwidge Dodgson .......... (1) (work) as a lecturer in mathematics
at Oxford University from 1855 to 1881. His colleagues .......... (2) (think) he
..........(3) (be) excentric; but he ..........(4) (seem) to have been comfortable with
children. He ..........(5) (have) a bad stammer, except when he was with children,
when it completely .........(6) (disappear).
In 1865, he ..........(7) (publish) Alice in Wonderland and called himself Lewis Carroll
as its author. He ..........(8) (write) three more books to entertain Alice Liddell, who
..........(9) (be) the young daughter of the Dean of Christ Church College, Oxford.
Lewis Carroll wrote many other ‘nonsense' poems in his real name. He
(10) (live) alone and died of bronchitis in Guildford on July 14th, 1898.

Answer 1

Answer:

worked

thinks

been

seemed

had

dissapeared

published

wrotes

have been

lived