Malwa Gramin Bank Clerk Exam 2010 - English Paper - Part 4

Directions-(Q. 41-50) In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case. Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He …(41)… all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was …(42)… at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there. But, good gracious ! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she insisted that she was a real princess. Well, we'll soon …(43)… out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and …(44)… a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty quilts on …(45)… of the mattresses. On this the princess had to lie all night. In the …(46)… she was asked how she had slept. "Oh, very badly !" said she. "I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed. But I was lying on something hard, as a …(47)… I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible !" Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had …(48)… the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as …(49)… as that. So the prince took her for his wife, for now he …(50)… that he had a real princess.

41. Fill in the blanks
called  tour  sent  saw  travelled
 

42. Fill in the blanks
made  felt  heard  seen  sounded
 

43. Fill in the blanks
assure  find  judge  mark  try
 

44. Fill in the blanks
drew  flung  placed  cooked  stitch
 

45. Fill in the blanks
top  head  bottom  between  middle
 

46. Fill in the blanks
morning  dinner  room  fields  dark
 

47. Fill in the blanks
vengeance  price  cause  result  time
 

48. Fill in the blanks
slept  felt  located  carried  found
 

49. Fill in the blanks
worried  rough  irritable  sensitive  pretty
 

50. Fill in the blanks
trust  assured  wanted  think  knew
 

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