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3. Sometimes, (a) ____________ than fiction. It can appear differently to different people.
Some people (b) ____________ ghosts and some don’t. This (c) ____________ that
science has not been able to solve conclusively. No proof has been found that is
believed universally.

(a) (i) truth was stranger (ii) truth is odd
(iii) truth is stranger (iv) truth has been stranger

(b) (i) believe in (ii) believed in
(iii) have to believe in (iv) had believed in

(c) (i) was a mystery (ii) is a mystery
(iii) makes a mystery (iv) has a mystery

4. Human beings like to enjoy all liberties, but (a) ____________ to brutal treatment. I feel
pity for the innocent animals. I (b) ____________ how humans can be so insensitive.
They (c) ____________ in captivity and even die untimely deaths due to the selfishness
of man.
(a) (i) have subjected animals (ii) subject animals

(iii) have subjecting animals (iv) have animals subject
(b) (i) failed to understand (ii) failed to understood

(iii) have fail to understand (iv) fail to understand
(c) (i) have to live (ii) has to live

(iii) had to live (iv) have to lived
5. Creativity is your ability to (a) ____________ in new and different ways. When you
think of the word ‘creativity’, (b) ____________ about art. Artists use creativity to
make new things and see things in a different way. But you (c) ____________ an artist
to be creative.

(a) (i) think of things (ii) thinking of things
(iii) thought of things (iv) thinks of things

(b) (i) you shall think (ii) you should think
(iii) you might think (iv) you must think

(c) (i) must be (ii) don’t have to be
(iii) must look like (iv) should talk like
6. Part of problem-solving includes (a) ____________ and being willing to try different
things. The first solution you try (b) ____________, so having a strategy, or a plan of

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