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3. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 (a) _____________ (hit) northern
Japan on Tuesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, (b) _____________ (issue)
Tsunami warnings for much of the nation’s Northern Pacific coast. The epicentre
of the earthquake, which (c) _____________ (feel) in Tokyo, (d) _____________
(be) off the coast of Fukushima, premature at a depth of about 10 km, the agency
(e) _____________ (say). There (f) _____________ (be) no immediate reports of

damage or injury.
4. The Mahabharata (a) _____________ (be) one of the two major Sanskrit epics of
ancient India, the other (b) _____________ (be) the Ramayana. The Mahabharata
(c) _____________ (be) an epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fate
of the Kaurava and the Pandava princes. It also (d) _____________ (contain)
philosophical and devotional material. Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata
(e) _____________ (attribute) to Vyasa. There (f) _____________ (be) many attempts
to (g) _____________ (unravel) its historical and compositional layers.

5. Thomas “Tom” Sawyer (a) _____________ (be) the title character of the Mark Twain
novel, ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ (1876). He (b) _____________ (appear) in three
other novels by Mark Twain. Tom Sawyer (c) _____________ (be) a boy of about 12
years of age, who (d) _____________ (reside) in the fictional town of St. Petersburg,
Missouri, in the year 1845.

6. Flood waters (a) _____________ (engulf) vast areas of the delta region of Mahanadi
river system in Odisha. The death toll due to floods (b) _____________ (go) up to 34,
the SRC said, (c) _____________ (add) that most of the casualties (d) _____________
(be) due to (e) _____________ (drown) and wall collapse.
7. Spring is a time when everything on earth (a) _____________ (cover) with fruits
and flowers, and it (b) .............. (be) a very beautiful time of the year. If we
(c) _____________ (compare) it with life, childhood is the spring of life and once it
is lost, it never (d) _____________ (return). The children who pick garbage every day
find their life in garbage, as it is the source of their livelihood. The childhood of these
children (e) _____________ (lose) in earning money. They (f) _____________ (has)
no relation with culture, and education for them has no meaning.

8. Tom Wilson (a) ____________ (be) an explorer. He (b) ____________
(be) to nearly every country in the world, but the most
exciting time he (c) _____________ (ever/have) was when he
(d) _____________ (go) to the Congo jungle. A magazine (e) _____________ (ask)
him to retrace the route of a famous explorer who (f) _____________ (disappear)

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