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Common Test for Stenographer Grade III Junior Assistant Typist Field

Assistant 21st to 29th Dec 22 and 2nd Jan 23


Hall Ticket
22121015554
Number
Participant
ONTIPALLI ANIL KUMAR
Name
Test Center
iON Digital Zone iDZ Atchutapuram
Name
Test Date 21/12/2022
Test Time 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Common Test for Stenographer Grade III Junior
Subject
Assistant Typist Field Assistant

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Q.41 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

The boy was quite intelligent but the teacher tried to ______ as a dull student.
Ans 1. pass him off

2. pass him away

3. pass him by

4. pass him out

Question ID : 435123136
Chosen Option : 2

Q.42 Select the most appropriate synonym for the given word.
Elapse
Ans 1. Travel

2. Expire

3. Accept

4. Sprint

Question ID : 435123138
Chosen Option : 4
Q.43 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

Let us hire a cab ______ we should get late.


Ans 1. unless

2. while

3. that

4. lest

Question ID : 435123127
Chosen Option : 3

Q.44 Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

The study of plants


Ans 1. Botany

2. Geology

3. Zoology

4. Anatomy

Question ID : 435123152
Chosen Option : 1

Q.45 Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the
correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. A touch of vermilion was added too, to make the line visible in the sky.
B. The boy and his friends calculated how much line they would need for the kites to fly.
C. Glue was added to the glass granules to make paste for the line.
D. They collected empty bottles and got them ground.
Ans 1. B, D, C, A

2. B, C, D, A

3. B, D, A, C

4. B, A, C, D

Question ID : 435123147
Chosen Option : 1

Q.46 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

I see no chance ______ making a profit in this business.


Ans 1. of

2. in

3. for

4. to

Question ID : 435123131
Chosen Option : 1
Q.47 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

The welfare of the soul is surely ______ to that of the body.


Ans 1. much preferable

2. most preferable

3. more preferable

4. preferable

Question ID : 435123124
Chosen Option : 2

Q.48 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

______! I’m going on a road trip with my friends.


Ans 1. Oops

2. Bravo

3. Yippee

4. Good

Question ID : 435123130
Chosen Option : 1

Q.49 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

She ______ to clear her debts within a month.


Ans 1. pretended

2. promised

3. produced

4. provided

Question ID : 435123133
Chosen Option : 2

Q.50 Select the most appropriate synonym for the given word.
Demolish
Ans 1. Devastate

2. Reinstate

3. Abdicate

4. Repudiate

Question ID : 435123137
Chosen Option : 1
Q.51 Select the grammatically correct and meaningful sentence.
Ans 1. Indian goods helps in popularisation of tourism and improving business contacts with
the external world.
2. Improving business contacts with the external world and popularisation of tourism
helps in Indian goods.
3. Tourism helps in popularisation of Indian goods and improving business contacts
with the external world.
4. The external world helps in popularisation of Indian goods and business contacts
with improving tourism.

Question ID : 435123149
Chosen Option : 3

Q.52 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

If you ______ me to the manager, he might consider my case favourably.


Ans 1. speak on

2. speak for

3. speak against

4. speak out

Question ID : 435123135
Chosen Option : 1

Q.53 Select the most appropriate ANTONYM for the given word.
Aspersion
Ans 1. Invective

2. Slander

3. Adulation

4. Calumny

Question ID : 435123140
Chosen Option : 2

Q.54 Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.


Split one’s sides
Ans 1. Convulse with laughter

2. Divide one’s property

3. Be in acute pain

4. Undergo a surgery

Question ID : 435123143
Chosen Option : 2
Q.55 Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Swim with sharks
Ans 1. To live under constant fear

2. To defeat the enemies

3. To operate among dangerous people

4. To challenge the toughest opponent

Question ID : 435123142
Chosen Option : 2

Q.56 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

She divided her savings ______ two parts and gave them to her daughters.
Ans 1. for

2. from

3. into

4. to

Question ID : 435123132
Chosen Option : 3

Q.57 Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the
correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. It is also true that we have paid a price for the comforts of life that we enjoy today.
B. We have grown selfish and greedy and lead a life of stress and strain.
C. For example, old values like, love, care, simplicity, affection and sympathy have
disappeared from our lives. 
D. In the light of the achievements made in different fields, we can certainly take pride in
saying that we are happier than our forefathers.
Ans 1. B, C, A, D

2. D, A, C, B

3. D, C, B, A

4. A, B, C, D

Question ID : 435123148
Chosen Option : 3

Q.58 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

I have never told a lie ______ deceived anybody.


Ans 1. neither

2. as

3. or

4. either

Question ID : 435123128
Chosen Option : 3
Q.59 Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

A person who eats too much


Ans 1. Extravagant

2. Glutton

3. Windbag

4. Bigmouth

Question ID : 435123151
Chosen Option : 1

Q.60 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

______! Watch out for the potholes!


Ans 1. Hi

2. Hey

3. Oh

4. Ah

Question ID : 435123129
Chosen Option : 4

Q.61 Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the parts in the correct order
to form a meaningful sentence.

A. wielded by nuclear weapons


B. are quite aware
C. all the nations
D. of the monstrous strength
Ans 1. A, C, D, B

2. D, A, B, C

3. C, B, D, A

4. C, D, B, A

Question ID : 435123144
Chosen Option : 3

Q.62 Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the parts in the correct order
to form a meaningful sentence.

A. one’s outlook on life


B. like affluence, status or power
C. than on extraneous factors
D. happiness depends more upon
Ans 1. D, A, B, C

2. D, A, C, B

3. A, B, C, D

4. A, D, B, C

Question ID : 435123146
Chosen Option : 4
Q.63 Select the grammatically correct and meaningful sentence.
Ans 1. The leaders of affiliated unions invariably play into the politically hands of their
bosses.
2. The leaders of politically affiliated unions invariably play into the hands of their
bosses.
3. The politically affiliated of the unions invariably play into leaders of their bosses
hands.
4. Unions invariably play into the leaders of the politically affiliated bosses of their
hands.

Question ID : 435123150
Chosen Option : 3

Q.64 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

She is ______ casual in her approach to life.


Ans 1. much

2. rather

3. enough

4. yet

Question ID : 435123125
Chosen Option : 3

Q.65 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

She ______ about her dingy apartment but did not have funds to buy a better one.
Ans 1. was complaining

2. is complaining

3. has been complaining

4. complains

Question ID : 435123134
Chosen Option : 2

Q.66 Select the most appropriate ANTONYM for the given word.
Reprimand
Ans 1. Rebuke

2. Censure

3. Empathise

4. Compliment

Question ID : 435123139
Chosen Option : 2
Q.67 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.

He gifted me a ______, ______, ______ handbag.


Ans 1. large, brown, leather

2. leather, large ,brown

3. large, leather, brown

4. brown, leather, large

Question ID : 435123123
Chosen Option : 1

Q.68 Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the parts in the correct order
to form a meaningful sentence.

A. condemned on account of the


B. examinations are often
C. involved in them
D. very prominent role of chance
Ans 1. A, D, B, C

2. B, A, D, C

3. B, C, A, D

4. D, A, B, C

Question ID : 435123145
Chosen Option : 3

Q.69 Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

He is only ______ glad to meet his friends.


Ans 1. rather

2. fully

3. too

4. much

Question ID : 435123126
Chosen Option : 3

Q.70 Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.


Cut from the same cloth
Ans 1. To use resources carefully

2. To deceive a close friend

3. To be of the same nature

4. To take someone’s share

Question ID : 435123141
Chosen Option : 1
Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and
select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The wind and rain had whipped a (1) ______ of gritty dust against the panels. The room inside
was musty and (2) ______ of furniture. The spiders had (3) ______ great stretchings of their
webs about the fireplace. It was fairly (4) ______ that the house had been shut for years. I had
a sudden (5)______ to be out of this house forever.

SubQuestion No : 71
Q.71 Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 1.
Ans 1. polish

2. packaging

3. sheen

4. coating

Question ID : 435123154
Chosen Option : 4

Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and
select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The wind and rain had whipped a (1) ______ of gritty dust against the panels. The room inside
was musty and (2) ______ of furniture. The spiders had (3) ______ great stretchings of their
webs about the fireplace. It was fairly (4) ______ that the house had been shut for years. I had
a sudden (5)______ to be out of this house forever.

SubQuestion No : 72
Q.72 Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 2.
Ans 1. disposed

2. deficient

3. devoid

4. destitute

Question ID : 435123155
Chosen Option : 1

Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and
select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The wind and rain had whipped a (1) ______ of gritty dust against the panels. The room inside
was musty and (2) ______ of furniture. The spiders had (3) ______ great stretchings of their
webs about the fireplace. It was fairly (4) ______ that the house had been shut for years. I had
a sudden (5)______ to be out of this house forever.

SubQuestion No : 73
Q.73 Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 3.
Ans 1. levelled

2. uplifted

3. boosted

4. erected

Question ID : 435123156
Chosen Option : 3
Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and
select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The wind and rain had whipped a (1) ______ of gritty dust against the panels. The room inside
was musty and (2) ______ of furniture. The spiders had (3) ______ great stretchings of their
webs about the fireplace. It was fairly (4) ______ that the house had been shut for years. I had
a sudden (5)______ to be out of this house forever.

SubQuestion No : 74
Q.74 Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 4.
Ans 1. dubious

2. odious

3. conspicuous

4. obnoxious

Question ID : 435123157
Chosen Option : 3

Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and
select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The wind and rain had whipped a (1) ______ of gritty dust against the panels. The room inside
was musty and (2) ______ of furniture. The spiders had (3) ______ great stretchings of their
webs about the fireplace. It was fairly (4) ______ that the house had been shut for years. I had
a sudden (5)______ to be out of this house forever.

SubQuestion No : 75
Q.75 Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 5.
Ans 1. passion

2. inspiration

3. momentum

4. impulse

Question ID : 435123158
Chosen Option : 3
Comprehension:
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

I often went to the lagoon, which has a four-fathom bank where the tababa (tiger shark)
muster in hundreds for a day or two every month. Offshore at rising tide, you can watch their
great striped bodies sliding and swooping with arrogant ease not six feet under your keel.
They range in length from nine to fourteen feet, with an occasional giant of eighteen feet.
Thirty-five years ago the Gilbertese were beginning to use steel hooks for shark-fishing but
many still claimed that the old-style twelve-inch wooden hook, trained to the right shape was
the only thing for tiger shark. The shark hunter’s gaff was a glorious club with a ten-pound
stone for its head. He fished from a canoe not much longer than a man, with the line made
last to it. When a big shark took the hook, the craft lurched suddenly and bounced insanely up
and down; or it zigzagged like a misdirected rocket, the fisherman holding on grimly. But the
fury of a tiger shark’s struggles soon exhausted it and it floated limply to the surface. Then
the fisherman hauled the spent brute cautiously alongside and, letting out one piercing howl
of pleasure, cracked it on the nose with his club.
Usually safety first is the rule when tiger sharks are about, but the feat of one Tarawa man,
Teriakai, became a matter of official record. His vital, stocky frame was the equal of a giant’s
for work. Whenever there was a special job to be done, we always chose Teriakai to do it.
Thus when the captain and chief engineer of a visiting steamer wanted to go out for a sail in
threatening weather, we sent Teriakai along to look after them.
A northerly storm caught Teriakai and his friends and capsized their boat, spilling them into
the lagoon eight miles from land, with tiger sharks all round. Teriakai immediately hacked the
main sail adrift; buoyed at head and foot by its spars, it made a fine bag under water. “Stay
inside this,” he said to the captain and engineer, “and the tababa won’t smell you from a
distance.” Then he put down the anchor and started for shore to get help. “If I get past the
tababa,” he said, “we shall perhaps be meeting again.”
He swam straight at the tiger sharks – the captain and engineer watched him – and the devils
let him through. Teriakai told me afterwards, “If you stay still in the sea, or swim away in fear,
the tababa will charge you. If you swim without fear towards them, they will be afraid and
leave you in peace.” So he chose his shark, swam full speed towards it and lo! the line melted
away before him. Teriakai missed his direction and swam into a maze of reefs off the coast.
The breaking seas flung him on cruel edges, rolled him over coral-branches, but he got
through, still conscious, swam a mile to the shore, walked two more to a white trader’s house
and collapsed on the veranda.

SubQuestion No : 76
Q.76 The old style of shark fishing made use of:
Ans 1. steel hooks

2. keels

3. wooden hooks

4. stone-head clubs

Question ID : 435123160
Chosen Option : 1
Comprehension:
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

I often went to the lagoon, which has a four-fathom bank where the tababa (tiger shark)
muster in hundreds for a day or two every month. Offshore at rising tide, you can watch their
great striped bodies sliding and swooping with arrogant ease not six feet under your keel.
They range in length from nine to fourteen feet, with an occasional giant of eighteen feet.
Thirty-five years ago the Gilbertese were beginning to use steel hooks for shark-fishing but
many still claimed that the old-style twelve-inch wooden hook, trained to the right shape was
the only thing for tiger shark. The shark hunter’s gaff was a glorious club with a ten-pound
stone for its head. He fished from a canoe not much longer than a man, with the line made
last to it. When a big shark took the hook, the craft lurched suddenly and bounced insanely up
and down; or it zigzagged like a misdirected rocket, the fisherman holding on grimly. But the
fury of a tiger shark’s struggles soon exhausted it and it floated limply to the surface. Then
the fisherman hauled the spent brute cautiously alongside and, letting out one piercing howl
of pleasure, cracked it on the nose with his club.
Usually safety first is the rule when tiger sharks are about, but the feat of one Tarawa man,
Teriakai, became a matter of official record. His vital, stocky frame was the equal of a giant’s
for work. Whenever there was a special job to be done, we always chose Teriakai to do it.
Thus when the captain and chief engineer of a visiting steamer wanted to go out for a sail in
threatening weather, we sent Teriakai along to look after them.
A northerly storm caught Teriakai and his friends and capsized their boat, spilling them into
the lagoon eight miles from land, with tiger sharks all round. Teriakai immediately hacked the
main sail adrift; buoyed at head and foot by its spars, it made a fine bag under water. “Stay
inside this,” he said to the captain and engineer, “and the tababa won’t smell you from a
distance.” Then he put down the anchor and started for shore to get help. “If I get past the
tababa,” he said, “we shall perhaps be meeting again.”
He swam straight at the tiger sharks – the captain and engineer watched him – and the devils
let him through. Teriakai told me afterwards, “If you stay still in the sea, or swim away in fear,
the tababa will charge you. If you swim without fear towards them, they will be afraid and
leave you in peace.” So he chose his shark, swam full speed towards it and lo! the line melted
away before him. Teriakai missed his direction and swam into a maze of reefs off the coast.
The breaking seas flung him on cruel edges, rolled him over coral-branches, but he got
through, still conscious, swam a mile to the shore, walked two more to a white trader’s house
and collapsed on the veranda.

SubQuestion No : 77
Q.77 The fierce struggle of a large shark resulted in:
Ans 1. tearing of the main sail

2. its freedom from the fisherman’s grip

3. capsizing of the boat

4. zig-zag or up and down rocking of the boat

Question ID : 435123161
Chosen Option : 4
Comprehension:
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

I often went to the lagoon, which has a four-fathom bank where the tababa (tiger shark)
muster in hundreds for a day or two every month. Offshore at rising tide, you can watch their
great striped bodies sliding and swooping with arrogant ease not six feet under your keel.
They range in length from nine to fourteen feet, with an occasional giant of eighteen feet.
Thirty-five years ago the Gilbertese were beginning to use steel hooks for shark-fishing but
many still claimed that the old-style twelve-inch wooden hook, trained to the right shape was
the only thing for tiger shark. The shark hunter’s gaff was a glorious club with a ten-pound
stone for its head. He fished from a canoe not much longer than a man, with the line made
last to it. When a big shark took the hook, the craft lurched suddenly and bounced insanely up
and down; or it zigzagged like a misdirected rocket, the fisherman holding on grimly. But the
fury of a tiger shark’s struggles soon exhausted it and it floated limply to the surface. Then
the fisherman hauled the spent brute cautiously alongside and, letting out one piercing howl
of pleasure, cracked it on the nose with his club.
Usually safety first is the rule when tiger sharks are about, but the feat of one Tarawa man,
Teriakai, became a matter of official record. His vital, stocky frame was the equal of a giant’s
for work. Whenever there was a special job to be done, we always chose Teriakai to do it.
Thus when the captain and chief engineer of a visiting steamer wanted to go out for a sail in
threatening weather, we sent Teriakai along to look after them.
A northerly storm caught Teriakai and his friends and capsized their boat, spilling them into
the lagoon eight miles from land, with tiger sharks all round. Teriakai immediately hacked the
main sail adrift; buoyed at head and foot by its spars, it made a fine bag under water. “Stay
inside this,” he said to the captain and engineer, “and the tababa won’t smell you from a
distance.” Then he put down the anchor and started for shore to get help. “If I get past the
tababa,” he said, “we shall perhaps be meeting again.”
He swam straight at the tiger sharks – the captain and engineer watched him – and the devils
let him through. Teriakai told me afterwards, “If you stay still in the sea, or swim away in fear,
the tababa will charge you. If you swim without fear towards them, they will be afraid and
leave you in peace.” So he chose his shark, swam full speed towards it and lo! the line melted
away before him. Teriakai missed his direction and swam into a maze of reefs off the coast.
The breaking seas flung him on cruel edges, rolled him over coral-branches, but he got
through, still conscious, swam a mile to the shore, walked two more to a white trader’s house
and collapsed on the veranda.

SubQuestion No : 78
Q.78 Which of the following is NOT true of the tababa?
Ans 1. Their average length is from nine to fourteen feet.

2. They lack the sense of smell.

3. They have huge striped bodies.

4. They attack a person who remains still in water.

Question ID : 435123162
Chosen Option : 1
Comprehension:
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

I often went to the lagoon, which has a four-fathom bank where the tababa (tiger shark)
muster in hundreds for a day or two every month. Offshore at rising tide, you can watch their
great striped bodies sliding and swooping with arrogant ease not six feet under your keel.
They range in length from nine to fourteen feet, with an occasional giant of eighteen feet.
Thirty-five years ago the Gilbertese were beginning to use steel hooks for shark-fishing but
many still claimed that the old-style twelve-inch wooden hook, trained to the right shape was
the only thing for tiger shark. The shark hunter’s gaff was a glorious club with a ten-pound
stone for its head. He fished from a canoe not much longer than a man, with the line made
last to it. When a big shark took the hook, the craft lurched suddenly and bounced insanely up
and down; or it zigzagged like a misdirected rocket, the fisherman holding on grimly. But the
fury of a tiger shark’s struggles soon exhausted it and it floated limply to the surface. Then
the fisherman hauled the spent brute cautiously alongside and, letting out one piercing howl
of pleasure, cracked it on the nose with his club.
Usually safety first is the rule when tiger sharks are about, but the feat of one Tarawa man,
Teriakai, became a matter of official record. His vital, stocky frame was the equal of a giant’s
for work. Whenever there was a special job to be done, we always chose Teriakai to do it.
Thus when the captain and chief engineer of a visiting steamer wanted to go out for a sail in
threatening weather, we sent Teriakai along to look after them.
A northerly storm caught Teriakai and his friends and capsized their boat, spilling them into
the lagoon eight miles from land, with tiger sharks all round. Teriakai immediately hacked the
main sail adrift; buoyed at head and foot by its spars, it made a fine bag under water. “Stay
inside this,” he said to the captain and engineer, “and the tababa won’t smell you from a
distance.” Then he put down the anchor and started for shore to get help. “If I get past the
tababa,” he said, “we shall perhaps be meeting again.”
He swam straight at the tiger sharks – the captain and engineer watched him – and the devils
let him through. Teriakai told me afterwards, “If you stay still in the sea, or swim away in fear,
the tababa will charge you. If you swim without fear towards them, they will be afraid and
leave you in peace.” So he chose his shark, swam full speed towards it and lo! the line melted
away before him. Teriakai missed his direction and swam into a maze of reefs off the coast.
The breaking seas flung him on cruel edges, rolled him over coral-branches, but he got
through, still conscious, swam a mile to the shore, walked two more to a white trader’s house
and collapsed on the veranda.

SubQuestion No : 79
Q.79 The word ‘collapse’ in the passage means:
Ans 1. to completely shrink

2. to break apart suddenly

3. to fall down unconscious

4. to shut down abruptly

Question ID : 435123163
Chosen Option : 4
Comprehension:
Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

I often went to the lagoon, which has a four-fathom bank where the tababa (tiger shark)
muster in hundreds for a day or two every month. Offshore at rising tide, you can watch their
great striped bodies sliding and swooping with arrogant ease not six feet under your keel.
They range in length from nine to fourteen feet, with an occasional giant of eighteen feet.
Thirty-five years ago the Gilbertese were beginning to use steel hooks for shark-fishing but
many still claimed that the old-style twelve-inch wooden hook, trained to the right shape was
the only thing for tiger shark. The shark hunter’s gaff was a glorious club with a ten-pound
stone for its head. He fished from a canoe not much longer than a man, with the line made
last to it. When a big shark took the hook, the craft lurched suddenly and bounced insanely up
and down; or it zigzagged like a misdirected rocket, the fisherman holding on grimly. But the
fury of a tiger shark’s struggles soon exhausted it and it floated limply to the surface. Then
the fisherman hauled the spent brute cautiously alongside and, letting out one piercing howl
of pleasure, cracked it on the nose with his club.
Usually safety first is the rule when tiger sharks are about, but the feat of one Tarawa man,
Teriakai, became a matter of official record. His vital, stocky frame was the equal of a giant’s
for work. Whenever there was a special job to be done, we always chose Teriakai to do it.
Thus when the captain and chief engineer of a visiting steamer wanted to go out for a sail in
threatening weather, we sent Teriakai along to look after them.
A northerly storm caught Teriakai and his friends and capsized their boat, spilling them into
the lagoon eight miles from land, with tiger sharks all round. Teriakai immediately hacked the
main sail adrift; buoyed at head and foot by its spars, it made a fine bag under water. “Stay
inside this,” he said to the captain and engineer, “and the tababa won’t smell you from a
distance.” Then he put down the anchor and started for shore to get help. “If I get past the
tababa,” he said, “we shall perhaps be meeting again.”
He swam straight at the tiger sharks – the captain and engineer watched him – and the devils
let him through. Teriakai told me afterwards, “If you stay still in the sea, or swim away in fear,
the tababa will charge you. If you swim without fear towards them, they will be afraid and
leave you in peace.” So he chose his shark, swam full speed towards it and lo! the line melted
away before him. Teriakai missed his direction and swam into a maze of reefs off the coast.
The breaking seas flung him on cruel edges, rolled him over coral-branches, but he got
through, still conscious, swam a mile to the shore, walked two more to a white trader’s house
and collapsed on the veranda.

SubQuestion No : 80
Q.80 What kind of passage is it?
Ans 1. Narrative

2. Discursive

3. Factual

4. Persuasive

Question ID : 435123164
Chosen Option : 1

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