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DIRECTIONS: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given. Certain words have been given in bold to help you locate them while answering some of the questions.


A week after India clinched the Test series against Australia at Dharamsala, the memory of both the fine victory and the bad blood thatmarred those matches can be pushed to the side-lines. Such is the nature of frenetic cricket calendars that the Indian Premier League has already rolled in, its tenth edition commencingwith the match between the defending champion, Sunrisers Hyderabad, and last year’s runner-up, Royal Challengers Bangalore, on April 5. Spread over 47 days and featuring 60 matches, the IPL has over the years blended the instant gratification of the Twenty20 format with a sense of longevity, having prospered since its inception in 2008.

 On the field, suspense and sixes, upsets and consistency, flair and acrobatic fielding have all combined to energise the league. The inaugural event witnessed a classic reprise of David vs Goliath. Unheralded Rajasthan Royals stunned the fancied Chennai Super Kings (CSK), and ironically both teams are currently serving a two-year suspension, a just punishment following ghastly violations that negated the spirit of the game. If S. Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankeet Chavan’s allegedforays into spot-fixing dented the Royals in 2013, further damage was caused to the league when CSK’s Gurunath Meiyappan was deemed guilty of betting. Even Rajasthan Royals co-owner Raj Kundra fell in the same category, and tragically for the IPL, the thrills on the ground were marred by the problems that shadowed its fringes.

Ironically, the IPL has actually held a mirror up to and drawn more scrutiny into the affairs of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) than have the game’s longer, more traditional formats. The cosy-club atmosphere that sullied the richest cricket board, the nepotism and an indifference to probity, all came into full public view, with the Supreme Court sitting up and taking notice. The repercussions of the 2013 spot-fixing and betting controversy are even now felt as it sowed the seeds for the wide-ranging reforms suggested by the Justice R.M. Lodha Panel, and now the Committee of Administrators appointed by the court has its hands full. A summer sporting carnival, a domestic tournament with an international flavour, as Rahul Dravid described it, had inexplicably gone beyond its pulsating cricket and virtually prised out the BCCI’s heart. The IPL not only changed the way cricket was played, increasing the tempo and adding big bucks to the players’ kitty, it also inadvertently ushered in a course-correction for the BCCI. Surely, the league has come a long way since it started with a leg-bye when Kolkata Knight Rider’s skipper Sourav Ganguly squared up to Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Praveen Kumar in the first match in 2008 in Bangalore. It was the lull before the storm unleashed by Brendon McCullum’s savage unbeaten 158 off just 73 balls. There have been many other storms since and as for what will happen this time around, no one can hazard a guess.
What does the idiom ‘bad blood’ refers to in the opening section of the paragraph?
Options:
A) unpleasant feelings or animosity between the two teams because of arguments in the past.
B) ll health of the playing teams
C) Ill health of the losing team
D) Unfavourable climatic conditions 
E) None of the above
Solution:

Ans: (a) unpleasant feelings or animosity between the two teams because of arguments in the past.

Bad blood means the unpleasant feelings or animosity between people, or feelings of hate between people because of arguments in the past 

Eg: There is bad blood between Fred and Jim. They cannot be civil to one another. 

       There is no bad blood between us. I don't know why we should quarrel.

        Police say the arson attack may have been the result of bad blood between the two families.

       There's been bad blood between the two families for years. 

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