Multiple choice

Fill blank (i).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

The Temiar blowpipe is normally some two metres long and made ______(i)______ one single length of bamboo. It has a slender inner tube ______(ii)______ the outer covering so that one length warps against the other and it always remains true. From it they shoot a small dart, a splinter of wood some twenty or twenty-five centimetres in length; a pith cone at one end, the other sharpened end tipped with poison. Most aborigines are ______(iii)______ accurate with a blowpipe up to a range of nine to ten metres, though ______(iv)______ some reason they are more accurate if the target is moving vertically than if it moves horizontally.

  1. from

  2. of

  3. in

  4. by

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A Correct answer
Explanation

Whenever we use the derived root, we use ‘from’. ‘Of’ is used to indicate raw material. Here the reference is not to bamboo as a raw material, but to a single bamboo used, instead of two.