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1-10. In the following passage there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers are given below the passage and against each five words have been suggested, one of which fits the blanks appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
I remember vividly the first time I ever voted in an Iranian election. It was a 1__________ summer day in June 2001, in the election that won the reformist president Mohammad Khatami a second term. The blue stamp was the first on the voting page of my identification card, and I felt a sharp, exhilarating pride. That election is much on my mind now, as I watch the results of Friday’s voting with my family, disagreeing on what it Back in 2001, Iran was heading down an 2__________ path toward internal reform, a process untainted by any Western intrusion, with citizens and progressive minded leaders showing the way. Those leaders seemed, at the time, as exciting as Vaclav Havel and the revolutionary cleric Musa al Sadr rolled into one. Elections felt — unlike the vote this past weekend — full of consequences genuine chance to 3__________ political power rather than an exercise in slightly recalibrating it.
Tehran then was a naïve young intellectual’s paradise. There were Islamist reformers and secular 4__________, women’s rights campaigners who went door to door in villages, and urban activists working to save everything from the Iranian cheetah to the rapidly evaporating Lake Urmia. You could sit at the feet of an ayatollah in the morning and hear a Koran backed strategy for gender equality; by afternoon, you could be with the radical student opposition in a 5__________ house in the center of the city, still strewn with shredded documents removed from the United States embassy during the 1979 hostage taking. There were literary readings almost every night, and subversive theater that 6__________ the system, using metaphors from baseball to Moliere.
The reformists in those days were punchy; they 7__________ Karl Popper, and said one day freedom would come to Iran, and we would all support the Palestinians and thumb our noses at the West and be a beacon of progress for the rest of the Middle East, which in those days was a political wasteland, the kind of place that “didn’t have politics.”
In Tehran, dissidents didn’t 8___________ in the shadows as in Tunis or Cairo. They would write newspaper columns saying things like, “My family gave three martyrs to the war with Iraq; I’m the only son left, I support change, and have the right to speak.” People would throng newspaper 9__________ and buy five papers each.
I reported on trials where feminist lawyers, representing the families of dissident students killed by paramilitary forces, raised their voices against turbaned judges. To be a part of all this as a journalist felt like some sort of heart stopping privilege; I would lay awake at night thinking about the day’s conversations, and how it seemed that history was not made by 10___________ leaders, but the daily decision of ordinary people not to be scared.
1 Choose the correct option for (1)
01. balmy
02. moisture
03. tropical
04. typical
05. random
2 Choose the correct option for (2)
01. reversed
02. changeable
03. irrevocable
04. inevitable
05. lost
3 Choose the correct option for (3)
01. vary
02. convert
03. ruin
04. continue
05. recast
4 Choose the correct option for (4)
01. reactionary
02. reformers
03. moderate
04. calm
05. transformer
5 Choose the correct option for (5)
01. oxidizing
02. rusting
03. renovating
04. decaying
05. amazing
6 Choose the correct option for (6)
01. caricature
02. cartoon
03. lampooned
04. take off
05. roast
7 Choose the correct option for (7)
01. cite
02. answer
03. call
04. invoked
05. request
8 Choose the correct option for (8)
01. crouch
02. cower
03. face
04. meet
05. sneak
9 Choose the correct option for (9)
01. kiosks
02. banners
03. stage
04. stall
05. shopping
10 Choose the correct option for (10)
01. hypnotic
02. naïve
03. poised
04. lovable
05. charismatic
Answers:-
Q.1 (1)
Q.2 (3)
Q.3 (5)
Q.4 (2)
Q.5 (4)
Q.6 (3)
Q.7 (4)
Q.8 (2)
Q.9 (1)
Q.10 (5)
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