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bad (593) of commercials is their loud-           Directions (606–620) : In the         616. (1) for              (2) of
ness. They seem to be (594) as loud       following questions, you have follow-               (3) about           (4) in
as the program and the viewer is al-      ing two brief passages with 10 ques-          617. (1) known            (2) observed
most (595) when they come on. Any         tions in Passage-I and 5 questions in
                                                                                              (3) seen            (4) found
attempt (596) conversation during         Passage-II. Read the passages care-
                                                                                        618. (1) colour           (2) height
commercials is futile. Commercials        fully and fill in the blanks with, out of
also take up too much time and (597)      the four alternatives given.                        (3) size            (4) habits
too often. The impression one (598)                                                     619. (1) different        (2) alike
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gets is that the shows are sandwiched              Operator & LDC Exam. 04.11.2012            (3) same            (4) single
in (599) long periods of advertising,                                                   620. (1) has              (2) have
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all of it the same. Often commercials                                                         (3) had             (4) got
(600) a show at a particularly inap-                        PASSAGE -I
                                                                                               Directions (621-635) : In the
propriate time.                                   Without water (606) animal can
                                                                                        following questions, you have follow-
 591. (1) reasonably                      survive. In desert regions, the great-
                                          est (607) to life is drying up. But many      ing two brief passages with 10 ques-
        (2) rationally                                                                  tions in Passage I and 5 questions in
                                          creatures are able to make use of (608)
        (3) unreasonably                                                                Passage II. Read the passages care-
                                          little water that exists in arid areas.
        (4) irrationally                  One of nature’s masterpieces , (609)          fully and fill in the blanks with suit-
 592. (1) join                            creatures equipped to (610) with              able words out of the four alternatives
        (2) accommodate                   desert life is the hardy camel. There         given.
                                          are several stories describing the (611)                    (SSC (10+2) Level Data Entry
        (3) accompany
                                          endurance of these animals. It is said              Operator & LDC Exam. 04.11.2012,
        (4) admit                                                                                                        Ist Sitting)
                                          that camels can (612) a distance of
 593. (1) features       (2) feature                                                                    PASSAGE-I
                                          about 800 miles in eight days through
        (3) property     (4) mark         continuous travel (613) an intake of a               Parents tend to spoil their own
 594. (1) two            (2) pair         single drop of water. The popular (614)       children either by over-indulgence or
        (3) twice        (4) double       in a way is (615) . Water is indeed           by deprivation. Childhood should be
 595. (1) deafening (2) blind             stored, but in the form of fat.               the time for (621) from primary self-
        (3) deafened     (4) deaf         606. (1) every             (2) no             ishness to sharing, for learning to
 596. (1) on             (2) in                   (3) any            (4) desert         (622) with deprivation and disappoint-
                                          607. (1) want                                 ment and learning to (623) failure,
        (3) to           (4) at
                                                  (2) inadequacy                        since breaking a toy and forgetting a
 597. (1) repeat         (2) is repeated                                                homework assignment are (624) seri-
                                                  (3) requirement
        (3) repeated     (4) are repeated         (4) worry                             ous than breaking a marriage or for-
 598. (1) usually        (2) usual        608. (1) what              (2) the            getting to prepare for career advance-
        (3) use to       (4) used to              (3) very           (4) that           ment. But (625) deprivation, as is com-
 599. (1) after          (2) before       609. (1) for               (2) about          mon in (626) families, leaves many
        (3) between      (4) during               (3) among          (4) with           children (627) the stage of personal
                                                                                        gratification. They lack resources for
 600. (1) involve        (2) integrate    610. (1) live              (2) resist
                                                                                        developing a sense of (628) towards
        (3) invert       (4) interrupt            (3) bear           (4) cope
                                                                                        others and a wish to care for them.
                 PASSAGE II               611. (1) remarkable
                                                                                        And children (629) be poor to be un-
        It seems there was no Marina              (2) little
                                                                                        derprivileged. The (630) are also de-
beach during the 1700"s. The (601)                (3) tolerable                         prived, cheated out of learning how to
developed only after the construction             (4) popular                           face life.
(602) the Madras harbour in the (603)     612. (1) measure           (2) reduce
                                                                                         621. (1) changing       (2) turning
century. It should be remembered                  (3) cover          (4) reach
                                                                                               (3) shifting      (4) removing
(604) any kind of developmental ac-       613. (1) for               (2) without
                                                                                         622. (1) cope up        (2) adjust
tivity (605) the coast will have an im-           (3) accepting      (4) receiving
pact on the adjoining regions.            614. (1) proverb           (2) guess                 (3) fight         (4) cope
 601. (1) beach          (2) coast                (3) belief         (4) version         623. (1) overcome (2) eliminate
        (3) shore        (4) sea          615. (1) baseless          (2) wrong                 (3) remove        (4) forget
 602. (1) with           (2) in                   (3) misleading (4) correct             624. (1) far better (2) far less
        (3) of           (4) on                            PASSAGE - II                        (3) far worse (4) far more
                                                  About a million different species      625. (1) much           (2) exhaustive
 603. (1) tenth          (2) nineteenth
                                          (616) insects have been identified. Yet              (3) excessive (4) every
        (3) fifteenth    (4) sixth        little is (617) about some of them. Al-
 604. (1) that           (2) this                                                        626. (1) undernourished
                                          though insects vary so much in their
        (3) these        (4) they                                                              (2) uncoordinated
                                          shape and (618) they all have the (619)
 605. (1) within         (2) therein      structure. All insects normally (620) six            (3) uncooperative
        (3) along        (4) long         legs.                                                (4) underprivileged
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