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'GENERATION' SHOULD BE APT FOR THE BLANK. AND THE OPTION IS "C".

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DIRECTIONS: In the following passage some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four options.


Everybody wants _(1)_ after hard work. It is a biological necessity.  Books are a great source of entertainment and recreation. They share the readers’ joys and sorrows.  A lover of books comes back home as a very relaxed man after a visit to the library.  For him, the library is a temple of _(2)_ and a source of pleasures.  With its excellent academic, peaceful and _(3)_ atmosphere, a library is a place of peace, quiet and serenity.  J.B. Macaulay once said,” I would rather be a poor man in a place garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.” Henry David Thoreau rightly remarked, “Books are the _(4)_ wealth of the world, the fit inheritance of _(5)_ and nations.

Mark the correct option for blank _(5)_.

Options:
A)

losses

B)

populace

C)

generations

D)

suggestions

Solution:

Ans: (d) The context talks about inheritance (something that is or may be inherited to generations to come) the correct choice is therefore ‘generations’. 

Populace (the common people of a community or nation).

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