Choose the appropriate options from the ones given below to complete the following passage.
Write the answers in your answer sheet against the correct blank numbers:
It was a dicult journey, collecting stones and travelling (a)____________________, with no water to drink. (b) _________________times he felt that his friend was right. (c)________________was no guarantee that somebody (d) _________________ buy his stones.Faith and hope (e) _______________ him going. After walking (f)________________ a long time he reached the town. Much to hisdisappointment, he saw that it was like (g)________________ othertown. He decided to (h) _________________ the night there.
(a) (i) along (ii) Again (iii) Alone (iv) away
(b) (i) During (ii) At (iii) Some (iv) On
(c) (i) It (ii) Here (iii) Where (iv) There
(d) (i) has (ii) were (iii) was (iv) would
(e) (i) keeps (ii) kept (iii) keeping (iv) keep
(f) (i) on (ii) along (iii) for (iv) from
(g) (i) some (ii) one (iii) many (iv) any
(h) (i) spend (ii) one (iii) stayed (iv) spent
Answers
(a) alone
(b) at
(C) there
(d) would
(e) kept
(f) for
(g)many
(h) spend
(a) Let us go through each option
(i) along - Though ""along with"" might be a right answer, but there is a comma in between those two words. Hence the phrases ""travelling along"" and ""with no water to drink"" are two distinct ones which are not connected. So now ""traveling along"" is incomplete. It could have been either travelling along the rocky hills or something.
Hence (i) is wrong
(ii) again - here we are speaking about his difficult new journey. So ""again"" does not make sense
Hence (ii) is wrong
(iii) alone - It is already mentioned that it is a difficult journey and that too there is no water to drink. The complete passage is around that one person. Hence there is higher probability that he is travelling alone. Hence (iii) is wrong
(iv) away - The phrase ""travelling away"" is incomplete. It could be ""travelling away from home"" or some other to make sense.
Hence (iv) is wrong
b) Let us go through each option
(i) During- ""During times"" is incomplete phrase and inappropriate in the context
Hence (i) is wrong
(ii) and (iii) - Both At times and sometimes are right in this context as they mean occassionally. But if you clearly notice there is no space between the blank and the text ""times"". Hence it cannot be ""At"". It can only be ""Some""
Hence (ii) is wrong (iii) is right
(iv) On -inappropriate in the context
c) Let us go through each option
(i) It- When we use ""it"", it should be either referring to something in the previous context or it should be used in a subjunctive structures like ""it is important that."" Here both cases doesn’t exist and so ""it"" is inappropriate
Hence (i) is wrong
(ii) Here- Using ""here"" with ""guarantee"" in this context does not make sense.
Hence (ii) is wrong
(iii) Here- Using ""where"" with ""guarantee"" in this context does not make sense.
Hence (iii) is wrong
(iv) There - This exactly fits in the blank
Hence (iv) is right
d) ""has"" does not make sense with the word ""buy"".
Similarly, for ""was"" and ""were"" should either use the ""ing"" form of the verb ""buy"" if sentence is in active voice or the past participle of buy which is bought if the sentence is in passive voice.
""would buy"" makes sense
Hence (iv) is right
(e) The complete passage is following the past tense. Hence here the only past tense option is ""kept"". Hence (ii) is right
(f) All the options except ""for"" does not make sense with the phrase ""A long time"" So (iii) is right
(g) The context actually says that he has a difficult journey travelling through many places with no water to drink. Again, he is disappointed. The only reason that he is disappointed because with inspite of all faith and hope he had, he was only reaching the same situation again. So, the appropriate word to imply this is ""Any""
Hence (iv) is right
(h) The word should be a verb here and it should be in the infinitive form. hence the word ""spend"" is appropriate
Hence (i) is right