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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if

one advances confidently in the direction of his
dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he
has imagined, he will meet with a success
unexpected in common hours. He will put
somethings behind, will pass an invisible
boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws
will begin to establish themselves around and
within him; or the old laws be expanded, and
interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense,
and he will live with the license of a higher
order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his
life, the laws of the universe will appear less
complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor
poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you
have built castles in the air, your work need not
be lost; that is where they should be. Now put
the foundations under them.

Q. Complete the idea that essaysist is conveying

by filling in the blank with ONE word from the
passage.

To reach ‘castles in the air’, we have to have,

and believe in ______ .
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If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should
need only one fact, or the description of one
actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular
results at that point. Now we know only a few
laws, and our result is vitiated, not, of course,
by any confusion or irregularity in Nature, but by
our ignorance of essential elements in the
calculation. Our notions of law and harmony are
commonly confined to those instances which we
detect; but the harmony which results from a far
greater number of seemingly conflicting, but
really concurring, laws, which we have not
detected, is still more wonderful. The particular
laws are as our points of view, as, to the
traveller, a mountain outline varies with every
step, and it has an infinite number of profiles,
though absolutely but one form. Even when cleft
or bored through it is not comprehended in its
entireness.

Q. Complete the idea that essaysist is conveying

by filling in the blank with ONE word from the
essay.

We don’t know the ______ of Nature because we

know only the particular laws.
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. (a)I drink

at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and
detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides
away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper;
fish in the sky, whose bottom is pebblywith stars. I
cannot count one. (b)I know not the first letter of
the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I
was not as wise as the day I was born. The
intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way
into the secret of things. I do not wish to be any
more busy with my hands than is necessary. (c)My
head is hands and feet. I feel all my best faculties
concentrated in it. My instinct tells me that my
head is an organ for burrowing, as (d)some
creatures use their snout and fore paws, and with it
I would mine and burrow my way through these
hills. I think that the richest vein is somewhere
hereabouts; so by the diviningrod and thin rising
vapors I judge; and here (e)I will begin to mine.

Q1. Which of the following is NOT a figurative

expression?

Q2. Find the phrase in the passage that best

corresponds to the underlined ‘the richest vein’.
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This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is

one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I
go and come with a strange liberty in ______, a part of
herself. As I walk along the stony shore of the pond
in my shirt-sleeves, though it is cool as well as cloudy
and windy, and I see nothing special to attract me, all
the elements are unusually congenial to me. The
bullfrogs trump to usher in the night, and the note of
the whip-poor-will is borne on the rippling wind from
over the water. Sympathy with the fluttering alder and
poplar leaves almost takes away my breath; yet, like
the lake, my serenity is rippled but not ruffled. These
small waves raised by the evening wind are as remote
from storm as the smooth reflecting surface. Though it
is now dark, the wind still blows and roars in the
wood, the waves still dash, and some creatures lull the
rest with their notes. The repose is never complete.
The wildest animals do not repose, but seek their prey
now; the fox, and skunk, and rabbit, now roam the
fields and woods without fear. They are Nature's
watchmen -- links which connect the days of animated
life.

Q1. Fill in the blank with suitable word from the passage.
(change the form if necessary)

Q2. Write down the sentence which expresses an

exaggerated expression(hyperbole) from the passage.
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Let us consider for a moment what most of the
trouble and anxiety which I have referred to is
about, and how much it is necessary that we be
troubled, or at least careful. It would be some
advantage to live a primitive and frontier life,
though in the midst of an outward civilization, if
only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life
and what methods have been taken to obtain
them; or even to look over the old day-books of
the merchants, to see what it was that men most
commonly bought at the stores, what they stored,
that is, what are the grossest groceries. For the
improvements of ages have had but little ________
on the essential laws of man's existence; as our
skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished
from those of our ancestors.

Q. Fill in the blank with one appropriate word

beginning with two letters ‘i’ and ‘n’.