Question

Complete the following paragraph with a suitable form of the word


given in the brackets. Do not copy the passage but write the appropriate word

in the correct serial order.

-------------------------------------- Ibrahim Adham was a prince of a small kingdom in Persia. He was very pious and

____1____ (spend) many hours every day in prayer in a beautiful ____2____

(bejewel) mosque in his palace. One day, as he ____3____ (pray), he ____4____

(hear) a loud thumping sound on his roof. It sounded like the clattering of horse’s

hooves! ____5____ (rush) out, he looked up at the roof and sure enough, there

____6____ (be) his palace guards – twenty men on horseback.

“What on earth are you doing up there?” Ibrahim shouted. “Your Majesty,” the

captain of the guard yelled back, “We are searching for our camels that ____7____

(wander) away.” “But why are you looking for camels on the roof?” asked the prince.

“We are only following Your Majesty’s example; you strive ____8____ (seek) God

while living in the luxuries of a royal palace,” came the reply.
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Answer 1

The blanks can be filled as follows:

1. spent

2. bejewelled

3. was praying

4. heard

5. rushing

6. were

7. wandered

8. to seek

• For English Grammatical questions, we can determine what the correct word will be to fill in a blank by looking at the sentence structure.
• When we read the passage given in the question, we know that the tone of the passage tense is set in the past and hence most of the verbs need to be written in the past tense.

Answer 2

Answer:

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Explanation:

The blanks can be filled as follows:

1. spent

2. bejewelled

3. was praying

4. heard

5. rushing

6. were

7. wandered

8. to seek