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Section E: Grammar Cloze (6 marks)
Part I: Read the passage below. Choose the most suitable word from the box and fill in the
blanks. Use each word ONCE only.
(1) surely (2) certainly (3) actually
(4) strongly (5) lately (6) only
I cannot stress too (24)_______ the importance of personality in a successful stage
career. Along with the actual mastering of the dancing steps and acquisition of health and
a beautiful body, comes just as (25)______ the development of personality. And since
each individual has a distinct personality it is (26)________ when you select the type of
dancing best suited to you that you succeed. (27)________, people have begun taking up
any kind of dance and that is not very good idea. It is (28)_________ because of this
quality that the performance of stars like Evelyn Law, Marilyn Miller, Ann Pennington,
Gilda Gray and Fred and Adele Astaire leaves a lasting impression. Every step, every
movement is (29)__________designed to drive home the characteristics of their
individuality.
Section F: Comprehension MCQ (5 marks)
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled
brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him. Thirty yards of board fence nine
feet high. Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; then he
repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with
the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box
discouraged. Jim came skipping out of the gate with a tin pail, and singing Buffalo Gals.
Bringing water from the town pump had always been hateful work in Tom's eyes, before,
but now it did not strike him so. He remembered that there was company at the pump.
Many boys and girls were always there waiting their turns, resting, trading playthings,
quarrelling, fighting, skylarking. And he remembered that although the pump was only a
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