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DIRECTIONS: In the following passage there are blanks, each of which has been numbered these numbers are printed below the passage against each, four words are suggested, one of which fills the blank appropriately. Find out the appropriate word in each case. Fourteen centuries ago when the world was much younger, the ruler of all India, Rajah Balhait, was .....(11).... about his people. Anew game of dice, calk hard, had ...(12) the imagination of his subject teaching them that chance alone-a-roll of the dice guided the ...(13) of men. All who played this game of fortune lost their ...(14) in the virtues of courage prudence, wisdom and hope. It bred a fatalism that was ...(15) the spirit of the kingdom. Raja Balhait commissioned Sissa, an intelligent courtier at his court to find an answer to this ...(16)? After much ...(17)? the clever Sissa invented another game. Chaturanga, the exact ...(18) of hard, in which the four elements of the Indian army were the key places. In the game these pieces-chariots, horses, elephants and foot soldiers-joined with a royal counselor to defend their king and defeat the enemy. Forceful ...(19)? was demanded of the players? Not luck. Chaturanga soon became more popular than hard, and the ...(20)? to the Kingdom was over.

A) nature                         

B) equivalent

C) picture                        

D) opposite