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Direction: In the following questions, you have several brief passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each blank out of the four alternatives.

Passage - II

The social and cultural (38) in which festivals were celebrated in the past are changing so (39) along with the communities and people who celebrate them that (40) traditions of people may (41) disappear. Festivals in rural areas in the past (42) with the (43) of seasons that signalled the commencement of agricultural work. (44) associated with ploughing and planting of rice during mansoon and then again later at the end of monsoon were occasions to propitiate the gods for a (45) harvest. Festivals occurred once again during the time of harvests as occasion for joyous (46) and thanks giving to gods and (47).

A)  good               

B) sufficient

C) bountiful           

D) adequate