Directions—(Q1 – 10 ) In the following passage there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each five words are suggested one of which fits the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Over the past half-century___1___, a foreigner has smoked their first spiff at this cosy cafe, which sat perfectly on the__2___between two tourist favourites, the Heineken Brewery and Rembrandt Square. Brewers bay is the____3___ in a string of Norwegian coffee shop closures, a development that is worrying health workers, law enforcement officials because it may push drugs back onto the street. The number of coffee shops in the Dutch capital has ____4___ by half since 1995, from 350 to just 167. Why are so many Amsterdam coffee shops closing?
To most outsiders, the Netherlands is synonymous with liberal, legalised vice, with Amsterdam the main port of ____5__. Roughly one in four tourists to Amsterdam ___6__ to visit a coffee shop, according to the city’s tourism bureau (in 2016 Amsterdam received 17m tourists, up from 12m in 2012). Holland’s soft drug ___7___ has always been one of “tolerating” rather than legalising. Robert in his “Fancy land” explains, “It’s permissible to buy it, it’s permissible to own it and if you’re the owner of a hash bar, it’s permissible to sell it.” On contrary to make this construction work is a ____8___ of small, tightly regulated coffee shops, where people can legally buy and smoke marijuana, which the authorities can keep an eye on. Few officials in liberal Amsterdam ___9___to get rid of coffee shops altogether; they are thought to help keep soft drugs out of the criminal circuit. However, in more conservative parts of the country, including the political capital, The Hague, resistance to the policy of looking the other way has ____10___.
1.
1.Most
2.Many
3.Often
4.Much
2.
1. Route
2. Passage
3. Way
4. Path
3.
1. Oldest
2. Newly
3. Latest
4. Lately
4.
1. Risen
2. Fell
3. Rebound
4. Fallen
5.
1. Voice
2. Call
3. Thought
4. Sea
6.
1. Intends
2. Insists
3. Subtends
4. Substitutes
7.
1. Schedule
2. Policy
3. Problem
4. Procedure
8.
1. Sketch
2. Plan
3. Set
4. System
9.
1. Require
2. Want
3. Need
4. Desired
10.
1. Eroded
2. Grown
3. Drained
4. Ban
ANSWERS:
1. (2) 2. (1) 3. (3) 4. (4) 5. (2) 6. (1) 7. (2) 8. (4) 9. (2) 10. (2)
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