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The (1) American intellectual growth owes to the revolutionary exiles has never been fully appreciated. The seed disseminated by them, though so little understood at the time, has brought a rich harvest. They have at all times held aloft the (2) of liberty, thus impregnating the social vitality of the Nation. Emma Goldman was one of the few who, while thoroughly (3) their individuality, became an important factor in the social and intellectual atmosphere of America.
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Answer: (1) debt; (2) banner; (3) preserving
Solution The text is about how much the American intellectual growth owes (1) to the revolutionary immigrants. They are the ones that held aloft the banner (2) of liberty, even while preserving (3) their own individuality.
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The gated community offers services par excellence and an escape from regular (1) problems like power cuts, water cuts, improper roads, clogged sewerage system and heaps of (2). The real estate developer provides all the basic amenities like power supply, water supply, waste management, water warming et al. And people have the added benefit of living among their own types’. In this world (3) , who will not long for a stress-free space with (4) sharing one’s sensibilities?
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Answer: (1) civic; (2) garbage; (3) insensitive; (4) neighbors
Solution The text is about the various civic (1) amenities provided in gated communities. Civic problems like power-cuts, sewerage, garbage; (2) are virtually non-existent. Having neighbors; (4) of your own type also enables sharing of sensibilities in his insensitive; (3) world.
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‘ A (1) name’ earned in youth has a long way to go. But those who overlook this make a lamentable (2) , which unless speedily corrected can prove disastrous throughout life. For a young man, a good character is the (3) capital he can possess to start with in life. It is more dependable than (4). Reputation is most important for success even during failure, for when money (5) , reputation stays.
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Answer: (1) good; (2) mistake; (3) best; (4) gold; (5) abandons
Solution The text explains the importance of good name (1) or good character, particularly for the youth. It will be a mistake (2) to ignore its importance. This is the best (3) capital that one can start with; better than gold (4), for even money abandons (5), reputation (for good character) stays.
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As a (1) is constructed from different kinds of materials, a diet is constructed from fuel material, body building material, and body regulating material. No diet is perfect without any one of them. It needs some thought to put the various (2) materials together. Like different building materials needed to build a house, different (3) materials have to be thoughtfully put (4) to make a balanced diet. But there are a few which work for all parts of the body.
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Answer: (1) house; (2) building; (3) food; (4) together
Solution The text compares various types of food materials required, to building materials required for constructing a house (1). Like building (2) materials, these food (3) materials need to be put together (4).
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The fundamental idea of the mind cure system is that there is no such thing as (1). Disease is an error of the (2), the result of fear. Fear is only faith inverted and perverted. God, who is all good Himself, and who made everything good, cannot have been the author of any disease. As the disease is not a (3) , it has no existence, and when the healer succeeds in impressing this fact upon the mind of the patient, the (4) is effected.
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Answer: (1) sickness; (2) mind; (3) creation; (4) cure
Solution Overall the text is about the mind cure system whose basic premise is that there is no physical disease, except that the mind is sick. Filler (1) is obvious (sickness). Disease is then the error of mind (2). There is no disease creation (3). When the mind comes to understand it, cure (4) is effected.