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Direction: In the following passage some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given.

English education which was ...(181) ... in India in the earlier part of the 19th century ... (182)... her cultural contact with the West. ...(183)... this India had for centuries remained in a state of ... (184)... although in very early times she had sent out cultural missions to other Asiatic countries. India really began to borrow from the West and ...(185)... new ideas on an extensive scale only after the British had taken up the direction of her educational policy. It is true that Western education at first ...(186)... an unsettling influence on young men and led to errors in life and conduct. They hated everything Indian ... (187)... Western manners and ...(188)... of life and forgot their glorious past. There were scholars who ignored modern Indian language ...(189)... classical Indian literature and made a ...(190)... of speaking and writing English..

A) flux                              

B) solitude

C) Isolation

D) volatility