SSC CGL Tier-2 25-October-2015 English

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out the four altematives.
Passage:

One November afternoon, a child came to Rhayaders light house studio. She was about twelve, slender, dirny, nervous and timid. In her arms she carned something. She was desperately afraid of the ugly man she had come io see, but she had heard somewhere that ths man woud heal injured things. The man's voice was deep and kind when he spoke to her. Whatis it, child? She stepped forward timidly,
and in her arms was a large white bird which was quite stil. There were stains of blood on its whiteness. The girl placed it in his arms, ‘I found it, Sir. It's hurt Is it stil alive?" “Yes. Yes, I think so.“ Rhayader went inside with the bird in his arms. He
placed it upon a table. The girl covered. The bird fluttered. Rhayader spread one of its large white wings, "Child where did you find it?" 'In the wash, Sir, Hunters had been there.’ li is a snow goose from Canada. But how did it get here?’ The girl's eyes were fixed on the injured bird. She said ‘Can you heal it, Sir? "Yes" said Rhayader, "We will try. You can help me, She has been shot, poor thing, her leg is broken and ihe wing too.”

In the following questions, seniences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word(s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four.

Read the passage carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives and fill in the blanks.
Passage:

How the domestication of animals began is not known. Perhaps, there were large numbers of animals in areas near water where men also were(i). Here man could observe the animals and study their habits, and this knowledge must have, (ii) him to tame them. It was again, easy for an (iii) people to domesticate animals and feed them on the husks of the grain that were left after threshing. In any event, sheep and goats, pigs and cattle and later horses and asses were tamed and kept in pens. Man, thus, (iv) food from the soil and also from animals. In the pens, the animals could be observed even more closely. Calves suckling milk must have given man the idea that he too could get food other than meat from cows and goats. This practice which combines agriculture with the raising of animals is known as (v) farming Animals, however, were chiefly used to provide meat and milk, they were yet to be used as beasts of burden or to do draw the plough.