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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows: [/passage-header]Scarce diamonds are more valuable than the clusters of smaller crystals known as bort and carbonado. These diamonds are large single crystals of genuine crystalline carbon. Diamonds are found in the diamantiferous earth that is located in both open-air pits and underground mines. To retrieve the diamonds, the earth is crushed and concentrated. The concentrated material is then sorted by passing it over streams of water on greased tables. Since diamonds are water repellent, they will stick to the grease while the other minerals will absorb water and pass over the grease. The diamonds are then removed from the grease and cleaned, examined, sorted, and graded. The best diamonds are noted for their cleavage, their translucence, and their color. All diamonds have a natural line of cleavage along which they may be split and it is essential to split them before they are cut and polished. Before they are cut and polished, they look like tiny blue-grey stones; they do not twinkle or shine yet. A perfectly cut and polished diamond has 58 faces arranged regularly over its surface. It will be translucent and colorless, blue, white, green or yellow. The value of a jewel diamond depends largely on its color, or 'water', as it is called professionally. A stone of the finest water is blue-white. 

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:
[/passage-header]In May 1998, just two years after breaking his back in a parachuting accident whilst in the army, Bear Grylls became the youngest Briton to __(1)__ the summit of Mount Everest and return __(2)__. He was just 23 years old.
As his back recovered and he regained his __(3)__, Bear decided to leave the army in order to pursue his lifelong ambition to conquer the highest __(4)__ in the world. A friend of his was organizing an expedition to Everest and Bear was asked to __(5)__. After a year spent preparing for the climb and ___ (6)___ sponsorship money, he and his companions moved out to the Himalayas to __(7)__ up the challenge. 
In __(8)__ Bear spent 10 weeks on the mountain's southeast face. This __(9)__ a whole week at camp two simply waiting for the right condition to make his attempt on the summit. When he finally made it to the top, he sat for 20 minutes, just gazing in wonder at the __(10)__ before him. The hardest part was yet to come, though. Every year the number of climbers killed on Everest increases, with most deaths occurring on the descent. 
It was __(11)__ surprising then, that Bear felt a __(12)__ sense of relief when he eventually got back to base camp.

[passage-header]Read the following passage carefully and answer the question given below:[/passage-header]People are seldom aware that their comfortable living depends upon the work of several thousands of persons. The first thing, for instance, almost everyone looks forward to in the morning is a hot cup of tea. This cup of tea involves the work of thousands of people. This can be easily shown. Consider the number of things we require to prepare a cup of tea, such as clean drinking water, tea, sugar, milk, gas, burner, pot, crockery, strainer, spoon and so on.

Tea is grown in distant plantations and made available to the consumers through a vast network employing hundreds of workers. Consider further the machinery required for sugar mills. The production of this machinery involves a long chain of processes and operations - mining of coal and iron ore, manufacture of steel and machine tools, in which thousands of workers are employed. The same argument holds good with regard to the supply of milk. The production of other items such as gas, burner, crockery, spoons, etc., requires the service of hundreds of workers. And recall how agitated we are if the milk van is late in the morning, maybe because its tire has burst on the way. This may be due to its poor maintenance or the poor condition of the roads.

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:
[/passage-header]In May 1998, just two years after breaking his back in a parachuting accident whilst in the army, Bear Grylls became the youngest Briton to __(1)__ the summit of Mount Everest and return __(2)__. He was just 23 years old.
As his back recovered and he regained his __(3)__, Bear decided to leave the army in order to pursue his lifelong ambition to conquer the highest __(4)__ in the world. A friend of his was organizing an expedition to Everest and Bear was asked to __(5)__. After a year spent preparing for the climb and ___ (6)___ sponsorship money, he and his companions moved out to the Himalayas to __(7)__ up the challenge. 
In __(8)__ Bear spent 10 weeks on the mountain's southeast face. This __(9)__ a whole week at camp two simply waiting for the right condition to make his attempt on the summit. When he finally made it to the top, he sat for 20 minutes, just gazing in wonder at the __(10)__ before him. The hardest part was yet to come, though. Every year the number of climbers killed on Everest increases, with most deaths occurring on the descent. 
It was __(11)__ surprising then, that Bear felt a __(12)__ sense of relief when he eventually got back to base camp.