English Practice Test - 4 (FSL)

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and then try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (ii) with the help of the alternatives given.

Though he loved all of his children, Baba Ayub privately had a (i) __________ fondness for one among them, his youngest, Qais, who was three years old. Qais was a little boy with dark blue eyes. He (ii) __________ anyone who met him with his devilish laughter; he was also one of those boys so bursting with energy that he (iii) __________ others of theirs. When he learned to walk, he took such delight in it that he did it all day while he was awake, and then, troublingly, even at night in his sleep. He would sleepwalk out of the family’s mud house and wander off into the moonlit darkness. Naturally, his parents were worried. They took stabs at many (iv) __________, none of which worked. In the end, the solution Baba Ayub found was a simple one, as the best solutions often are: he removed a tiny bell from around the neck of one of his goats and hung it instead around Qais’s neck. This way, the bell would wake up someone if Qais were to rise in the middle of the night. The sleepwalking stopped after a time, but Qais grew (v) __________ to the bell and refused to part with it.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and then try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (iii) with the help of the alternatives given.

Though he loved all of his children, Baba Ayub privately had a (i) __________ fondness for one among them, his youngest, Qais, who was three years old. Qais was a little boy with dark blue eyes. He (ii) __________ anyone who met him with his devilish laughter; he was also one of those boys so bursting with energy that he (iii) __________ others of theirs. When he learned to walk, he took such delight in it that he did it all day while he was awake, and then, troublingly, even at night in his sleep. He would sleepwalk out of the family’s mud house and wander off into the moonlit darkness. Naturally, his parents were worried. They took stabs at many (iv) __________, none of which worked. In the end, the solution Baba Ayub found was a simple one, as the best solutions often are: he removed a tiny bell from around the neck of one of his goats and hung it instead around Qais’s neck. This way, the bell would wake up someone if Qais were to rise in the middle of the night. The sleepwalking stopped after a time, but Qais grew (v) __________ to the bell and refused to part with it.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and then try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (iv) with the help of the alternatives given.

Though he loved all of his children, Baba Ayub privately had a (i) __________ fondness for one among them, his youngest, Qais, who was three years old. Qais was a little boy with dark blue eyes. He (ii) __________ anyone who met him with his devilish laughter; he was also one of those boys so bursting with energy that he (iii) __________ others of theirs. When he learned to walk, he took such delight in it that he did it all day while he was awake, and then, troublingly, even at night in his sleep. He would sleepwalk out of the family’s mud house and wander off into the moonlit darkness. Naturally, his parents were worried. They took stabs at many (iv) __________, none of which worked. In the end, the solution Baba Ayub found was a simple one, as the best solutions often are: he removed a tiny bell from around the neck of one of his goats and hung it instead around Qais’s neck. This way, the bell would wake up someone if Qais were to rise in the middle of the night. The sleepwalking stopped after a time, but Qais grew (v) __________ to the bell and refused to part with it.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and then try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (v) with the help of the alternatives given.

Though he loved all of his children, Baba Ayub privately had a (i) __________ fondness for one among them, his youngest, Qais, who was three years old. Qais was a little boy with dark blue eyes. He (ii) __________ anyone who met him with his devilish laughter; he was also one of those boys so bursting with energy that he (iii) __________ others of theirs. When he learned to walk, he took such delight in it that he did it all day while he was awake, and then, troublingly, even at night in his sleep. He would sleepwalk out of the family’s mud house and wander off into the moonlit darkness. Naturally, his parents were worried. They took stabs at many (iv) __________, none of which worked. In the end, the solution Baba Ayub found was a simple one, as the best solutions often are: he removed a tiny bell from around the neck of one of his goats and hung it instead around Qais’s neck. This way, the bell would wake up someone if Qais were to rise in the middle of the night. The sleepwalking stopped after a time, but Qais grew (v) __________ to the bell and refused to part with it.

Directions: In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage and then try to understand what it is about. Then, fill blank (i) with the help of the alternatives given.

Though he loved all of his children, Baba Ayub privately had a (i) __________ fondness for one among them, his youngest, Qais, who was three years old. Qais was a little boy with dark blue eyes. He (ii) __________ anyone who met him with his devilish laughter; he was also one of those boys so bursting with energy that he (iii) __________ others of theirs. When he learned to walk, he took such delight in it that he did it all day while he was awake, and then, troublingly, even at night in his sleep. He would sleepwalk out of the family’s mud house and wander off into the moonlit darkness. Naturally, his parents were worried. They took stabs at many (iv) __________, none of which worked. In the end, the solution Baba Ayub found was a simple one, as the best solutions often are: he removed a tiny bell from around the neck of one of his goats and hung it instead around Qais’s neck. This way, the bell would wake up someone if Qais were to rise in the middle of the night. The sleepwalking stopped after a time, but Qais grew (v) __________ to the bell and refused to part with it.