TYPE I  -  GAP FILLING

Far from Shore
 Scientists divide the open ocean far from land into three layers according to how much sunlight the water gets: the sunlight zone, the twilight zone, and the midnight zone.
 Sunlight Zone
The sunlight zone is the ocean’s (0) _____ layer. It goes down about 300 feet, and the temperature is a pleasant 70°F. Even (1) _____ it is the smallest zone, it has about 90 (2) _____ of ocean life. Sunlight brightens the water near the surface (3) _____ plankton float. Bigger creatures also live in the sunny water. Some swimming animals cruise (4) _____ below the surface. Some dive deep. Others break the water’s surface (5) _____ reach the air above.
 Twilight Zone
 The twilight zone (6) _____ from the bottom of the sunlight zone down about 3,000 feet. The water (7) _____ darker and colder – about 50°F. The fish that live here can’t see very well, and there isn’t enough light for plant plankton or seaweed to stay (8) _____. Most food comes from dead plankton and animals that drift down from the surface waters.
Midnight Zone
 The midnight zone goes from the bottom of the twilight zone to the floor of the ocean. This zone is dark and (9) _____. The temperature is really cold – about 43°F. The weight of the water from above presses very hard on the small, (10) _____ blind animals that live here. Many deep-ocean fish have parts that glow from chemicals in (11) _____ bodies. Their lights confuse enemies, lure prey, and (12) _____ mates. At some places on the ocean floor, water (13) _____ hot as 750°F shoots out of openings, or vents. Minerals collect around the vents to form underwater chimneys. The hot water rising from the chimneys looks like black smoke.

TYPE 2  -  EDITING

The following passages have not been edited. There is one error in each line. Write the incorrect word and the correction against the correct question number in your answer sheet.

Vitamin tablets has been around forever, but antioxidants are the	a) …………………….
the last miracle cure. Do they really work?	b) …………………….
If the hype is true, then that the antioxidants do is	c) …………………….
work for neutralise the free radicals in our bodies	d) …………………….
and latter excrete them. Free radicals are atoms or molecules	e) …………………..
that have at least one unpaired electron and is therefore	f) ……………………
unstable and highly reactive. In animal tissue they are believing to accelerate the	g) ……………………
progression of cardiovascular and age-related diseases as dementia and cancer.	h) …………………..

The use for bottled supplements with your diet is a practice	a) ……………………
that need to be discouraged. It is also essential to keep abreast	b) …………………..
off new developments in research. Ironically those health-conscious individuals	c) …………………….
who already eats large quantities of fresh fruit and vegetables,	d) …………………….
who diet does not include junk food and who get plenty of regular	e) …………………….
exercise and have least need for dietary supplements tend to be the ones	f) ………………………
whom are most likely to use them.	g) …………………….

Each line given below contains an error. Underline the error and write the correction in the space provided.

1. For most than four years, Marie Curie (……............)

2. and her husband work in a large     (………………..)

3. dilapidated wood shed near their Paris home (…………………..)

4. It was here on the September night in 1902       (………………..)

5. they finally invented the radioactive element      (………………..)

6. who they named radium      (………………..)

7. Radium providing the first effective treatment for many forms of cancer. (………………..)

TYPE  2 - OMISSION

In the passage given below one word has been omitted from each line. Write the missing word and the word that comes before and the word that comes after it in your answer sheet. The first one has been done for you.

Before / missing / after

Walking very beneficial to us                                                   walking / is / very

We should get up early the morning                                         (a)
and go for a walk. Those are                                                    (b)
used to for morning walks, will find it                                        (c)
impossible to remain bed in the                                                (d)
morning. For them it not so much                                             (e)
an exercise but pleasure.                                                          (f)

Two teenagers broke into grocery shop. They                       into         a           grocery   

located what they thought the cash-box.                                   a) _____    ____  _____

They dragged it from the wall ran off                                           b) _____    _____  _____

with it. Suddenly box started ringing loudly.                            c) _____     _____   _____

They started hitting it a heavy iron bar. Failing in                   d) _____    _____   _____

their attempts to stop noise, they had to throw                        e) _____     _____   _____

the box away. They stolen the burglar alarm.                             f)_____      _____   ____

When the class IX examinations over, the Deputy                   examinations    were     over

Commissioner asked his son he had done his                          a)  ______    ______  ______

English paper well. The boy told him that it easy,                  b)  ______    ______  ______

and that for the question had written that his                         c)  ______    ______  ______

father was washerman. The boy’s father shouted                   d) ______    ______  ______

angrily, but son replied, “I did not know the                            e) ______    ______   ______

spelling Deputy Commissioner and I did not                            f)  ______    _____   ______

want to lose one mark.




According to estimates of National                                            a) ______   _______   ______
Ganga Authority only 1000 liter sewerage  is                          b) ______   _______   ______
treated daily against 3000 liters goes into                                c)  ______   _______   ______
the main Ganga river. Moreover  the 12,000                           d) ______    _______   ______
million liters of sewerage that goes the                                     e) ______    _______   ______
Ganga basin, 4000 million liters treated.                                  f) ______     _______   ______
Number settlements and industries                                           g) ______     _______   ______
located along river, pollute it.                                                      h) ______     _______   ______