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Direction: In the following questions, you have several 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 - III

Dhritrashtra, the elder brother of the Pandu, was blind by birth. When he grew young, he was married to Gandhari. She loved him so (48) that she bound up her own eyes with a cloth. A hundred sons were born to Dhritrashtra and Gandhari. They were called Kauravas. Duryodhana was the eldest son of Dhritrashtra, who was quite obstinate by nature. When Kunti (49) to Hastinapur with her five sons, Duryodhana did not like it. He wanted that the Pandavas should live in the forest with their mother, Kunti. In fact he wanted to rule (50) Hastinapur without any interference in his affairs, although outwardly he made a (51) of happiness, his mother Gandhari consoled Kunti but her son Duryodhana did not like this at all. Pandavas were so good and noble that everyone who saw them praised them. The people of Hastinapur began to give greater (52) to the Pandavas than to the Kauravas.

A)  on                               

B) over     

C) upon                            

D) from