Directions: 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 are suggested, one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word;

Watermelons ---- (i) to India by the 4th century AD, Sushruta the great Indian physician, ----- (ii) wrote the Sushruta Samhitha , mentions that watermelons were grown ------(iii)the banks of the river Indus ------(iv) are also mentioned in the ancient books.Sushrutha calls it as the kalinga or kalinda (hence Kalingad in Marathi). It was --- (v) to china in the 10th or 11th century and ----- (vi) it is grown throughout the tropics.

Wild watermelons are ------ (vii) compared to huge cultivated ones some of which weigh up to 25 kg. The heaviest fruit weighing 118 kg was produced at hope, Arkansas USA, the state to which president Clinton ------- (viii).