Conjunction Exercise

Complete the following passage by filling in the blanks with appropriate connectors:

(1)

Blocking of highways (a) ….. railway tracks has emerged as a common features of agitations in the country during the past several years. Such cases cause severe inconvenience to people (b) ….. lead to law and order problems (c) ….. financial losses. (d) ….. it cannot be said exactly when and how this began, it is reported (e) ….. it is assumed significance four years ago (f) ….. the opposition launched a nation-wide agitation.

(2)

The Moon Man is depicted on the first of two stamps from Greenland. He wears a polar bear skin (a) ….. came to Earth to punish people (b) ….. they did not follow his rules. The Moon Man was the one who controlled the tides and snowfall (c) ….. hunting patterns among sealers. He runs across the sky to try and catch his sister, the Sun, (d) ….. has not (e) ….. succeeded.

(3)

Adolescence is a time of storm and stress (a) ….. for the adolescents (b) ….. for the parents. It is marked by disagreements, bickering, emotional tensions (c) ….. minor conflicts. Shiney’s problem, for example was (d) ….. she wanted to be a dress-designer (e) ….. her parents wanted something else. (f) ….. we need to deal with it contextually. Does she want to be a dress designer (g) ….. she loves creating clothes? (h) ….. ,is she just enamored by the glamour and publicity? (i) ….. , the parents (j) ….. the teen should actively engage in a healthy discussion remembering that it is (k) ….. a verbal dual (l) ….. it is about winning or losing.

(4)

There are people (a) ….. read a book not (b) ….. they enjoy the book, (c) ….. because they want to be able to say (d) ….. they have read it. Ten of one (e) ….. they read a book for those reasons, they only skim (f) ….. it, because all they really want to do is to be able to talk as (g) ….. they had read it.

(5)

(a) ….. we can’t predict (b) ….. a really big asteroid will arrive, is there any real point in worrying about it? NASA thinks there is. It estimates (c)….. there are between 1,000 (d) ….. 4,000 asteroids at least 1 kilometer in diameter (e) ….. regularly cross Earth’s orbit. (f) ….. such an asteroid hit the Earth once every 3,00,000 years, this gives the average person a one in 4,000 chance of being around (g) ….. it happens. A small risk, maybe, (h) ….. much bigger (i) ….. the risk of dying in an air crash, (j) ….. is one in 20,000.

(6)

Alan Anderson had never flown before. (a) ….. he has looking forward to an exciting time (b) ….. his future father-in-law, Les Rhoades, aged 63, invited him up for a ride in his light plane. (c) ….. he had not expected was (d) ….. Mr. Rhoades would suffer a heart attack (e) ….. they were in the air. Fortunately for Mr. Anderson, Mr. Rhoades had shown him (f) ….. to operate the radio. (g) ….. he was able to call for help (h) ….. he did get thanks to Robert legge, an instructor with the Cardiff Flying School.