Direction: In the following questions, you have following two brief passages with 10 questions in Passage I and 5 questions in Passage II. Read the passages carefully and fill in the blanks with suitable words out of the four alternatives given.

PASSAGE I
Any regular viewer of programmes on the television will certainly have some reservations about commercials. When television shows are (591) good, the commercials that (592) them are a disgrace. One of the many bad (593) of commercials is their loudness. They seem to be (594) as loud as the program and the viewer is almost (595) when they come on. Any attempt (596) conversation during commercials is futile. Commercials also take up too much time and (597) too often. The impression one (598) gets is that the shows are sandwiched in (599) long periods of advertising, all of it the same. Often commercials (600) a show at a particularly inappropriate time.

PASSAGE II
It seems there was no Marina beach during the 1700's. The (601) developed only after the construction (602) the Madras harbour in the (603) century. It should be remembered (604) any kind of developmental activity (605) the coast will have an impact on the adjoining regions.

Direction: In each of the following two questions, you have following two brief passages with 10 questions in Passage I and 5 questions in Passage II. Read the passages carefully and fill in the blanks with suitable words out of the four alternatives given.

PASSAGE I
There is an enemy beneath our (576). He recognises no national boundaries, no (577) parties. Everyone in the world is (578) by him. The enemy is the Earth itself. The (579) of a quake is greater than (580) man himself can produce. But, (581) scientists are directing more of their (582) into finding some way of (583) earthquakes and it is possible that at (584) time in the near future, (585) will have discovered a means of protecting itself from it.

PASSAGE II
As well as I could make out, she had come for good, and had no intention of ever going again. She began (586) help my mother (587) morning, and was (588) and out of (589) store closet all (590), putting things to right, and making havoc in the old arrangement.