Verbal Ability

Closet Test - Section 14

India will find herself again when freedom opens out new horizons. Future will then fascinate her far more than the immediate part of frustration and humiliation. she will go ...(1)... with confidence, rooted in herself eager to learn from others and cooperate with them. Today she swings ...(2)... a blind adherence to her old customs and a slavish imitation of foreign ways. In ...(3)... of these can she find relief or life or growth. It is obvious that she has to come out of her ...(4)... and take full part ...(5)... the life and activities of the modern age. It should be equally ...(6)... that there can be no real cultural or spiritual growth based on imitation. Such imitation can only be ...(7)... to a small number which cuts itself ...(8)... from the masses and the ...(9)... of national life. True culture derives its ...(10)... from every corner of world, but it is ...(11)... and has to be ...(12)... on the wide mass of people. Art and literature remains ...(13)... if they are ...(14)... thinking of foreign models. The day of a ...(15)... culture confined to a small fastidious group is past. We have to think in terms of people generally and their culture must be continuous and development of past trends and also represent their new urges and creative tendencies.

1.  (solve as per the direction given above)

A. up
B. forward
C. in
2.  (solve as per the direction given above)

A. between
B. among
C. amidst
3.  (solve as per the direction given above)

A. either
B. neither
C. both
4.  (solve as per the direction given above)

A. cell
B. groove
C. shell
5.  (solve as per the direction given above)

A. in
B. between
C. of
6.  (solve as per the direction given above)

A. important
B. obvious
C. patent
7.  (solve as per the direction given above)

A. ascribed
B. confined
C. linked
8.  (solve as per the direction given above)

A. off
B. out
C. down
9.  (solve as per the direction given above)

A. wells
B. lakes
C. springs
10.  (solve as per the direction given above)

A. force
B. ideal
C. inspiration