Vocabulary Test...

[passage-header]Read the following passage and accordingly, fill in the blank:
[/passage-header]       In a way, one of the greatest gifts any teacher can give a student, I think, is to inculcate a curiosity to learn.
       I've been incredibly lucky to have at least one such teacher at every stage in my life. The first was Mrs. Rowlands who taught me in primary school. She taught me to read without ever pushing me. She made me want to read more by giving me some of the most interesting children's books available. And although I still love to go back to those books from time to time, it was only because of her that I was able to read Shakespeare by the time I was ten, and Chaucer a year later.
      In later years, it was Mr. A. N. Patil, my Marathi, and Hindi teacher who made a huge impression on me. Every lesson he took was spiced with half a dozen or more of anecdotes from a wide variety of subjects: among them history, politics, religion, and sociology. I was and still am in awe of his knowledge, I doubt I'll ever be able to match it.
     There have also been other teachers who helped me to try to become independent to think and act for myself using my own judgment, which to my mind has been just as, if not more important, than actually learning anything. After all, it's much too easy to become a completely useless repository of facts and little else.
    Two teachers whom I remember in particular are Mrs. Cynthia Nesamani and Sister Monica, both taught me in school. The former, by and large, gave me a free rein to do what I wanted to do. I, being one of those people who dislikes instructions, she helped me to produce a much better result than I'd have otherwise done.

[passage-header]Read the following extract and answer the question given below it :[/passage-header]The term co-operation loses its meaning when co-operatives become competitive and just a firm of retail shopkeepers, entering into rivalry with either similar co-operatives or private shops. In the issue of licenses, permits, supplies, grants, loans, etc., Government follows a general policy of preferring co-operatives to private organizations. Since Government itself is run on party lines this has led to rival co-operatives, one favoured by the party in power and the other trying to checkmate it. To remedy this, one way would be to insist on having only one multipurpose cooperative in one unit to eliminate all private dealers in distribution and to make membership in the co-operative society compulsory for every householder. My feeling is that co-operatives, whether in selling, purchasing or distributing should be restricted to carry on their operations for and among their members only. They must not become commission agents or middlemen between non-members on the one hand and Government or the world on the other. Their purchases must be for the needs of their members only and not for sale to the public. Their sales to the public must be confined to their own production. Permits, grants, loans, and other help should be given to them for proper distribution among their members only.