For these questions a paragraph with many numbered blanks is given: Read the paragraph carefully and for each question choose the appropriate word from the given alternatives to fill up the blank. Mark you answer in the Answer-sheet as instructed.

Primitive man was perhaps more concerned with fire as a source of warmth and as a means of cooking food than as a source of light. .......... (1) ........ he discovered less labourious ways of making fire, he had to ......... (2) ......... it and whenever he .......... (3) ........... on a journey he carried .......... (4) ......... firebrand with him. His discovery .......... (5) ........... the firebrand, from which ........... (6) .......... torch may well have developed, ............ (7) .......... used for illumination was ............ (8) ............. accidental to the primary purpose ............. (9) ............. Preserving a flame. Lamps too probably developed by accident. Early man ............... (10) .............. his first conception of a lamp while watching a twig or fibre burning in the molten fat dropping from a roasting carcass.