Direction: In the following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blank out of the four alternatives.

PASSAGE I
It is difficult to believe that any man can be so spiritually dead as to have no (801) for his native country after travelling in (802) lands. But if such an (803) person does exist, take careful note of his career; and you will find (804) he will never (805) poets to celebrate him in deathless song. He (806) be a man of (807) rank, of noble family and of (808) beyond the dream of avarice; but these great (809) will not save him from being forgotten. In spite of them all, he will win no (810) during his life time.

Direction: In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternative and fill in the blanks.

Ernest Hemingway was (791) of America’s most beloved authors. He was born in 1898. (792) World War I he served (793) a volunteer ambulance driver in Italy, (794) later served in the Italian infantry. Hemingway (795) badly wounded in 1918. Hemingway’s wartime experience (796) a considerable influence (797) his writing. In fact (798) of his novels focus on the need for physical and psychological strength to (799) difficulty and often violence. He was quite disillusioned (800)the war.