I got up. The Burmans (a)………………… (be) already (b)………………. (race) past me across the
meadows. It was obvious that the elephant (c)…………………. (will) never rise again, but he
(d)…………………. (be) not dead. He (e)……………………….. (breathe) very rhythmically with long,
rattling gasps, his great mound of a side painfully rising and falling. His mouth was far open – I could see
far down into caverns of pale pink throat. I (f)…………………………. (wait) a long time for him to die,
but his breathing did not (g)…………………….. (weak). Finally I (h)……………………….. (fire) my
two remaining shots into the spot where I (i)…………………………. (think) his heart must be. The thick
blood welled out of him like red velvet but still he did not die. He (j)…………………………… (die) very
slowly and in great agony, but in some world remote from me where not even a bullet could damage him
further.
Answers
Explanation:
1. Was
2. Raced
3. Would
4. Was
5.breath
6.waited
7. Weaked
8. Fired
9. Thought
10. Died
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Fill in the blanks questions consists of a blank space in a sentence which needs to be filled to make a meaningful sentence.
- The blanks are generally filled with correct articles, determiners, verb forms, tenses etc.
- The given passage is from George Orwell’s Shooting an elephant
- The correct passage after filling in the blanks is -
I got up. The Burmans were already racing past me across the meadows. It was obvious that the elephant would never rise again, but he was not dead. He was breathing very rhythmically with long, rattling gasps, his great mound of a side painfully rising and falling. His mouth was far open – I could see far down into caverns of pale pink throat.
I waited a long time for him to die, but his breathing did not weaken. Finally I fired my two remaining shots into the spot where I thought his heart must be. The thick blood welled out of him like red velvet but still he did not die. He was dying very slowly and in great agony, but in some world remote from me where not even a bullet could damage him further.
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