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Creative Writing – 129 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension exercise of moderate difficulty Question Passages On the day of the BBC’s open auditions, she took a bus across town. Eight women and girls sat waiting to try out, all of them poised and evidently experienced. Faqeer read …
Creative Writing – 128 Skillful Writing Learn Current affairs and Creative Writing in one lesson Sudan – Mass civilian protests in city streets on the third anniversary of Bashir’s ouster Synopsys 1. Sudan is an oil-rich, big African country that has seen decades of internal …
Creative Writing – 127 Comprehension Exercise Comprehension exercise of moderate difficulty Question Passage taken from NYT In July, 2001, Zarmina Faqeer, a sixteen-year-old Afghan refugee living in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar, learned that the BBC radio soap opera “New House, New Life” was …
Creative Writing – 126 Comprehension Exercise Study the passages carefully and answer the questions Question Passages taken from The Washington Post Flowing from the capital, the highway begins without promise, a long, curving scar stretching across the navel of Afghanistan. Potholes. Ruts. A bridge destroyed …
Will WTO spoil farmers’ MSP party? Can other policy initiatives be adopted to assure the farmers of assured and remunerative returns without raising the hackles of the WTO? After a protracted agitation that ran for close to 15 months, the government revoked the three contentious …
English Skill Building – 94 Vocabulary Learn new words by placing the words at appropriate places Fill in the gaps with the right word 1. Strangely, all the computers in the bank broke down simultaneously. The manger suspected some __________ [nuisance, foul play, notorious] 2. …
English Skill Building – 93 Rewriting Sentences Towards better writing skills Answer the questions according to the instruction given in the brackets 1. My father intervened to end the feud between my brother and me. [Rewrite the sentence starting it with ‘The feud…….”] 2. India …
Creative Writing – 125 Comprehension Exercise Read the BBC article and answer the questions that follow What’s behind suicides by thousands of Indian housewives? Why do thousands of Indian housewives kill themselves every year? According to the recently released data by the government’s National Crime …
English Skill Building – 92 Rewriting Sentences Attempt all questions Join the sentences to make a single sentence 1. The police mounted a raid on my neighbor’s house. They suspected that a fugitive criminal had taken shelter in it. 2. The police mounted a raid …
Vocabulary Exercise – 47 English Skill Building – A word list tailored for competitive exams If you don’t know the use of these words, or don’t quite understand the model sentences given, you can’t possibly be a good English language journalist, or a successful aspirant …