Set 14

Exercise 1 Almost everything about the Shroud of Turin is 1. by mystery its age, its authenticity and the identity of the bearded man with deep-set eyes whose image is 2 on the 14-foot length of yellowing linen, still believed by many Catholics to be the burial 3 of Jesus. Now to add to the 4, there is also the mystery of the fire 5 that through the 17th-century Baroque chapel built to 6 the shroud and that spread 7 the upper floors of the neighboring Royal Palace on the night of April 12. The shroud itself was saved but the chapel was 8 just weeks before the scaffolding was to come down after a three-year restoration. Whether it dates back to the Middle Ages, as carbon testing done on tiny 9 of the shroud concluded in 1988, or to the time of Jesus, the centuries-old 10 with the shroud has only increased since the fire. 1. 1) covered 2) expelled 3) painted 4) flanked 5) surrounded 2. 1) soiled 2) photographed 3) reflected 4) imprinted 5) adhered 3 1) grave 2) mound 3) rite 4) song 5) cloth 4. 1) legend 2) story 3) fable 4) fiction 5) fuel 5. 1) ripped 2) devastated 3) annihilated 4) exonerated 5)pervaded 6. 1 shelter 2) reside 3) refuge 4) relish 5) house 7 over 2) about 3) aside 4) into 5) out 8. 1) gutted 2) inflamed 3) drowned 4) attacked 5) invaded 9. 1) pieces 2) rags 3) swatches 4) samples 5) models 10. 1) fascination 2) attachment 3) affection 4) affectation 5) expectation Exercise 2 In Turkey. Asia blends with Europe. A 1 between Muslim Central Asia and Christian Europe, the political and economic 2 lie in the Turkish leaders ability to 3 the unique geographic and geopolitical clout. The country is a foundermember of the post-war, Western military 4 NATO, in which it 5 the biggest army of half a million 6 . Though a Muslim country, it has a unique and strong 7 heritage. The educated elite look 8 Western Europe rather than the Islamic East for their intellectual and cultural 9..a 10set by the founder of modem Turkey, Mustafa Kamal Ataturk, who died in 1938. 1. 1) bridge 2) rift 3) buffer 4) bone of contention 5)spectre 2. 1) favours 2) implications 3) manoeuvres 4) advantages 5)expertise 3. 1) exchange 2) exploit 3) explore 4) revoke 5)embellish 4. 1) group 2) regiment 3) alliance 4) battalion 5)power 5. 1) collects 2) enumerates 3) employs 4) maintains 5) organises 6. 1) troops 2) policemen 3) children 4) Christians 5)elites 7. 1) religious 2) secular 3) national 4) fundamental 5) patriotic

8. 1)for 2) towards 3)at 4) within 5)out 9. 1) solace 2) criticism 3) beacon 4) identity 5) entity 10. 1) theory 2) practice 3) precedent 4) term 5)trend Exercise 3 The Comedy of Errors is a good place to start for anyone who wishes to 1 the 2 world of Shakespeare. Relatively 3 by social criticism, philosophy or even characterisation of any great 4, the 5of the two Antipholuses and Drornios are transparent enough and funny enough for everyone to enjoy as 6 audiences in Calcutta, Delhi and other cities showed when the Royal Shakespeare Society 7 the play in India recently. What the play does is show us how important pure fun. laughter and comedy are to the human 8. We need to be able to laugh to remain 9 to remain human in an utterly10 world. L 1) travel 2) reveal 3) seal 4) eradicate 5)enter 2. 1) attractive 2) gloomy 3) ribald 4) extraneous 5) entrancing 3. 1) unsullied 2) free 3) undeterred 4) underplayed 5) unburdened 4. 1) merit 2) personage 3) degree 4) magnitude 5)complexity 5. l)antics 2) clothes 3) lenses 4) activities 5)mirrors 6. 1) appreciative 2) unkind 3) insensitive 4) bizarre 5) exclusive 7. 1) acted 2) rendered 3) scripted 4) performed 5) endeared 8. 1) predicament 2) mechanism 3) paraphernalia 4) Endeavour 5)destiny 9. 1) healthy 2) functional 3) true 4) sane 5)hilarious 10. 1) critical 2) faithless 3) nocturnal 4) homely 5)crazy

Exercise 4 Our independence in 1947 was born against the 1 of the great Bengal famine of 1942-43. Speaking at Noakhali in 1946, Gandhi 2 that the first and 3 duty of independent India is to 4 an environment which 5 every Indian to earn his or her daily 6. Gandhiji was against making people beggars and that is why he stressed the need for 7 to earn rather than give 8 food on 9 of charity and 10. 1. 1) milieu 2) border 3) backdrop 4) barrenness 5) fecundity 2. 1) witnessed 2) deliberated 3) acceded 4) pulverised 5) emphasised

3. 1) last 2) second 3) foremost 4) freest 5)final 4. 1) create 2) sustain 3) conserve 4) pollute 5) avoid 5. 1) helps 2) enables 3) protects 4) subsidises 5) allies 6. 1) meal 2) living 3) livelihood 4) existence 5)bread 7. 1) methods 2) policies 3) opportunities 4) Activities 5) strategies 8.1)up 2)in 3)off 4) away 5)back 9. l)grounds 2) rules 3) systems 4) Considerations 5) effects 10. 1) generation 2) nutrition 3) deficiency 4) patronage 5) competition Exercise 5 As we are 1 to enter the 21st century with all its scientific breakthroughs and technological 2 visibly3 our day-to-day lives in every possible way, it may look 4 simple to talk about a 5 routine thing like controlling high blood pressure. In fact, todays high society may like to talk about more fashionable diseases than the ordinary high blood pressure problem. Yet, there is more to it than 6 the eye. For one, have you ever wondered why some people develop high blood pressure while others dont? Even this may look like a 7question on the 8of it but the 9 mechanisms still remain too deep to 10 for medical scientists throughout the world. 1. 1) poised 2) about 3) ready 4) determined 5)anxious 2. 1) gizmos 2) marvels 3) competence 4) wizardly 5) success 3. 1) afflicting 2) ameliorating 3) insinuating 4) affecting 5)duping 4. 1) foolishly 2) ridiculously 3) damn 4) surprisingly 5)quite 5. 1) scientific 2) mundane 3) universal 4) lethargic 5)healthy 6. 1) deserves 2) discerns 3) strikes 4) governs 5) meets 7. 1) weird 2) wacky 3) million-dollar 4) gigantic 5)silly S. I) top 2) prime 3) head 4) face 5)rear 9. 1) genuine 2) convalescing 3) enrapturing 4) profound 5) underlying 10. 1) fathom 2) access 3) delve 4) perspire 5) placate

For one hundred years the 1 princes and 2 the people had been suffering the effects of the foreign rule. Their 3 came to an end when on 10 May, 1857, the Indian army at Meerut 4. The three infantry regiments at that 5 shot their officers, broke open the jail, and after releasing the 6 set out with their arms along the road to Delhi. The greased cartridges 7 the sepoys and 8 them to rise and drive away the foreigners who, they thought were 9on 10 their race and religion. 1. 1) comfortable 2) dispossessed 3) royal 4) deadly 5) beggarly 2. 1) downtrodden 2) egalitarian 3) rightful 4) benign 5) esoteric 3. 1) energy 2) silence 3) patience 4) aptitude 5)tethers 4. 1) enveloped 2) stampeded 3) mutinied 4) overthrew 5)escaped 5. 1) battalion 2) station 3) site 4) askance 5) level 6. l)brakes 2) inmates 3) flags 4) offices 5) news 7. 1) exasperated 2) humbled 3) perorated 4) excluded 5) percolated 8. l)goaded 2) asked 3) shot 4) jerked 5) amputated 9. 1) adamant 2) funny 3) excited 4) bent 5) based 10. 1) conquering 2) abjuring 3) flourishing 4) reviving 5) destroying Exercise 7 The political 1 of khadi 2 in the fact that it freed the Indians from western wear and united them as Indians the cloth was the same 3 worn in south Indian veshti-style or as a dhoti or as a pyjama. Gandhiji 4 this, which is why he also designed the Gandhi topi with khadi. But even before khadi became a movement, there were attempts. 5..by the Tagore family of Bengal, to 6 Indian clothing. One such failed effort was by Rabindranaths brother, Jyotindranath. who 7what looked like a 8 between western trousers and the Indian dhoti. Gandhiji s 9 lay in not disturbing the variety of indian styles of clothing and yet 10 uniformity to it through the medium of khadi. I. I) motive 2) significance 3) credibility 4) bias 5) drive 2. 1) brought 2) planted 3) obtained 4) aimed 5) manifested 3. 1) as 2) whether 3) that 4) as if 5) for 4. 1) studied 2) admired 3) realised 4) envied 5)applauded 5. 1) made 2) galore 3) broadly 4) primarily 5)drawn 6. 1) imbibe 2) exhibit 3) export 4) familiarise 5) popularise 7. I) manufactured 2) coined 3) designed 4) perfected 5)painted 8. 1 medium 2) halfway 3) compromise 4 conflict 5)cross 9. I) genius 2) charm 3) cunning 4) achievement 5)miracle 10. I) lending 2) rendering 3) inflicting 4) imparting 5) projecting

Exercise 6