(Though these kinds of exercises are designed for the students appearing for SSC Examination in Telangana, India,they are also very useful for those appearing for competitive examinations. On the whole, they are useful for the aspirants of learning English )
This is the key to the following exercises:
This is the key to the following exercises:
Exercise IBCR 1
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(successful,history, right, success, right,succeed,stories,)
Failure is the highway to ...........(18). Tom Watson Sr. said, “If you want to .........(19), double your failure rate.”If you study ............(20), you will find that all stories of success are also ...........(21) of great failures. But people don’t see the failures. They only see one side of the picture and they say that person got lucky: “He must have been at the ..........(22) place at the right time.”
Exercise IBCR 2
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.(failed,elected, effort, fails, defeated,selected,congressional,congress,)
Let me share someone’s life history with you. This was a man who......(18)in business at the age of 21; was..........(19) in a legislative race at age 22; failed again in business at age 24; overcame the death of his sweetheart at age 26; had a nervous breakdown at age 27; lost a ...........(20) race at age 34; lost a senatorial race at age 45; failed in an ........ (21)to become vice-president at age 47; lost a senatorial race at age 49; and was .......(22) president of the United States at age 52.
Exercise IBCR 3
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(lead, inventor,humiliated, failure, invention,humiliation,mislead)
This man was Abraham Lincoln.
Would you call him a ...........?(18) He could have quit. But to Lincoln, defeat was a detour and not a dead end.
In 1913, Lee De Forest, the .......... (19)of the triodes tube, was charged by the district attorney for using fraudulent means to .........(20) the public into buying stocks of his company by claiming that he could transmit the human voice across the Atlantic. He was publicly ...........(21) Can you imagine where we would be without his ...........(22)?
Exercise IBCR 4
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(questioned, heavier,who, heavy, flight,asked,editorial)
A New York Times ..........(18) on December 10, 1903, ..........(19) the wisdom of the Wright Brothers ...... (20)were trying to invent a machine, .........(21) than air, that would fly. One week later, at Kitty Hawk, the Wright Brothers took their famous ........(22)
Exercise IBCR 5
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(than,realized, estimated,recipe, quit,then,menu,cheque)
As a young .....,(18) Walt Disney faced many rejections .....(19) newspaper editors, who said he had no talent. One day a minister at a church hired him to draw some ......(20) Disney was working out of a small mouse infested shed near the church. After .....(21) a small mouse, he was ......(22) That was the start of Mickey Mouse.
Colonel Sanders, at age 65, with a beat-up car and a $100 ..... (18)from social Security, .....(19) he had to do something. He remembered his mother's ..... (19)and went out selling. How many doors did he have to knock on before he got his first order? It is .....(20) that he had knocked on more than a thousand doors before he got his first order. How many of us ..... (21)after three tries, ten tries, a hundred tries, and .....(22) we say we tried as hard as we could?
Exercise IBCR 6
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(cartoons,inspired, by, from,inspiration,cartoonist,seeing)
Exercise IBCR 7
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(way,schooling, success, manner,pocket,school,Successful)
......(18) people don't do great things; they only do small things in a great .....(19) One day a partially deaf four year old kid came home with a note in his .....(20) from his teacher, "Your Tommy is too stupid to learn, get him out of the ......(21)" His mother read the note and answered, "My Tommy is not stupid to learn, I will teach him myself." And that Tommy grew up to be the great Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison had only three months of formal .....(22) and he was partially deaf.
Exercise IBCR 8
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(lucky,reverse, different, and,so,difference,failures)
Henry Ford forgot to put the .....(18) gear in the first car he made.Do you consider these people .....(19)? They succeeded in spite of problems, not in the absence of them. But to the outside world, it appears as though they just got ......(20)
All success stories are stories of great failures. The only .....(21) is that every time they failed, they bounced back. This is called failing forward, rather than backward. You learn and move forward. Learn from your failure .....(22) keep moving.
Exercise IBCR 9
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(insurance,factory, in, burning, factor,burnt,lifetime)
In 1914, Thomas Edison, at age 67, lost his .....(18), which was worth a few million dollars, on fire. It had very little ......(19) No longer a young man, Edison watched his .....(20) effort go up in smoke and said, "There is great value .....(21) disaster. All our mistakes are .....(22) up. Thank God we can start anew." In spite of the disaster, three weeks later, he invented the phonograph. What an attitude!
Exercise IBCR 10
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(fired,and, told, approximately,but,approximate,examples)
Below are more .....(18) of the failures of successful people:
1. Thomas Edison failed .....(19) 10,000 times while he was working on the light bulb.
2. Henry Ford was broke at the age of 40.
3. Lee Iacocca was ..... (20)by Henry Ford II at the age of 54.
4. Young Beethoven was .....(21) that he had no talent for music, .....(22) he gave some of the best music to the world.
.....(18) are inevitable in life. A setback can act as a .....(19) force and also teach us humility. In grief you will find courage and faith to .....(20) the setback. We need to learn to become .....(21), not victims. Fear and doubt short-circuit the mind.
Ask yourself after every setback: What did I learn from this experience? Only then you will be able to turn a .....(22) block into a stepping stone.
The .....(18) to succeed comes from the .....(19) desire to achieve a ......(20) Napoleon Hill wrote, "Whatever the .....(21) of man can conceive and .....(22) the mind can achieve."
Exercise IBCR 10
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(overcome,Setbacks, victory, stumbling,victims,victors,driving)
Ask yourself after every setback: What did I learn from this experience? Only then you will be able to turn a .....(22) block into a stepping stone.
Exercise IBCR 11
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(motivation,mind, motivational, believe,purpose,belief,burning)
Exercise IBCR 12
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(walk,next, into,meet,to,secret,meeting)
A young man asked Socrates the .....(18) to success. Socrates told the young man to.....(19) him near the river the .....(20) morning. They met. Socrates asked the young man to .....(21) with him towards the river. When the water got up to their neck, Socrates took the young man by surprise and ducked him .....(22) the water.
Exercise IBCR 13
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(started,badly,bad ,and,well,secret,but)
The boy struggled to get out .....(18) Socrates was strong and kept him there until the boy .....(19) turning blue. Socrates pulled his head out of the water and the first thing the young man did was to gasp .....(20) take a deep breath of air. Socrates asked, “What did you want the most when you were there?” The boy replied, "Air." Socrates said, “That is the .....(21) to success. When you want success as .....(22) as you wanted the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret”.
Exercise ICCR 14
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(unnoticed,brightest,unknown ,than,related,then,short)
He was .....(18). He was sharp. He was the .....(19) boy in his class. His seniors used to ask him to solve their difficulties in science. He could have gone .....(20) in a crowd, but once you asked him a
question .....(21) to Physics or Maths, there was a spark in his eyes. He could grasp theories of science faster ....(22) the speed of light.
question .....(21) to Physics or Maths, there was a spark in his eyes. He could grasp theories of science faster ....(22) the speed of light.
Exercise ICCR 15
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(and,brightest,but ,to,admission,for,brighter)
He came from a poor .....(18) educated family. His father was a high-school teacher .....(19) an avid reader of English literature. He, like all the boys in his class, was trying to get .....(20) into some engineering college. The .....(21) ones wanted to study in the Indian Institutes of Technology, or the IITs. There was an entrance test .....(22) IIT.
Exercise ICCR 16
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(ultimate, friends, had, aspirants, aspirations, have, sleepy)
This boy, along with his .....(18), applied to appear for the test. They did not .....(19) any special books or coaching. All these IIT .....(20) would sit below the shade of a stone mandap close to Chamundi Hills in the .....(21) town of Mysore. He was the guide for the others. While the others struggled to solve the problems in the question paper, he would smile shyly and solve them in no time. He sat alone below a tree and dreamt of studying at IIT. It was the .....(22) aim for any bright boy at that age, as it still is today. He was then only sixteen years old.
Exercise ICCR 17
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(and, principle, any, some, when, principal, but)
The D-Day came. He came to Bangalore, stayed with .....(18) relatives .....(19) appeared for the entrance test. He did very well .....(20) would only say 'OK' .....(21) asked. It was the opposite when it came to food. When he said 'OK' it implied 'bad', when he said 'good' it implied 'OK', when he said 'excellent' it implied 'good'. His .....(22) was never to hurt anyone.
Exercise ICCR 18
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(at, reading, salary, finance, off, salaried, financial)
His father stopped .....(18) the paper. He lifted his head, looked .....(19) the boy and said with a heavy voice, 'My son, you are a bright boy. You know our .....(20) position. I have five daughters to be married .....(21) and three sons to educate. I am a .....(22) person. I cannot afford your expenses at IIT. You can stay in Mysore and study as much as you want.'
Exercise ICCR 19
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(for, fulfilling, were, are, earning, difficult)
Indeed it was a .....(18) situation .....(19) any father to say 'no' to his bright son. But circumstances ....(20) like that. It was common then for the man to be the single .....(21) member with a large family dependent on him.His father was sad that he had to tell the bitter truth to his son. But it could not be helped. The boy had to understand reality. The teenager was disappointed. It seemed his dreams had burnt to ashes. He was so near to .....(22) his fondest hope, yet so far. His heart sank in sorrow.
Exercise ICCR 20
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(reply, for, introvert, lucky, luck, with, extrovert)
He did not .....(18). He never shared his unhappiness or helplessness with anybody. He was an .....(19) by nature. His heart was bleeding but he did not get angry .....(20) anybody. The day came. His classmates were leaving .....(21) Madras (now Chennai). They were taking a train from Mysore to Madras. They had shared good years in school and college together. He went to the station to say goodbye and good .....(22) to them for their future life.
Exercise ICCR 20
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(excited, for, slowly, discussing, silence, station, silently)
At the .....(18), his friends were already there. They were .....(19) and talking loudly. The noise was like the chirping of birds. They were all excited and .....(20) their new hostels, new courses etc. He was not part of it. So, he stood there .....(21). One of them noticed and said, 'You should have made it.' He did not reply. He only wished all of them. They waved at him as the train ....(22) left the platform.
Exercise ICCR 21
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(even, slow, longer, only, long, started, slowly)
He did not reply. He .....(18) wished all of them. They waved at him as the train ......(19) left the platform. He stood there .....(20) after he could no ......(21) see the train or the waving hands. It was the June of 1962 in Mysore city. Monsoon had set in and it was getting dark. It had .....(22) to drizzle. Yet he stood there motionless.
Exercise ICCR 22
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(jealousy, bothering, myself, Probably, jealous, ultimately, yourself)
He said to himself, without anger or .......(18), 'All students from the IITs study well and do big things in life. But it is not the institution; .....(19) it is you and you alone who can change your life by hard work.' .....(20) he was not aware that he was following the philosophy of the Bhagavath Gita: 'Your best friend is .....(21) and your worst enemy is yourself.' Later he worked very hard, and focused on one thing, never .....(22) about his personal life or comforts. He shared his wealth with others. He never used the help of any caste, community or political connections to go up in life.
A son of a school teacher showed other Indians it was possible to earn wealth legally and ethically. He built a .....(18) of people who were equally good. He became a pioneer of India's software industry and started the .....(19) Technology wave. Today he has .....(20) an icon of simplicity, uncompromising quality and fairness, apart from .....(21) a philanthropist. He really believes in the motto, '.....(22) by intellect and driven by values'. He is none other than Nagavara Ramarao Narayana Murthy, the founder of Infosys, a leading IT company in the world.
Exercise ICCR 23
(Questions 18-22)Complete the following passage choosing the right words from those given in the box. Write the answers in your answer sheet.
(Information, Powered, team, Power, being, became, become)
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