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Fill in the blanks with suitable prepositions.

It is very rare (a) ______ new words to be formed (b) ______ parts of existing words being in some way involved. An exception (c) ______ this rule is loan words. These are words that are borrowed (d) ______ other languages. Relatively recent loan words (e) ______ the domain (f) ______ food include pizza, salsa, tapas, chapatti. Loan words are most typically nouns and are not normally subject (g) ______any of the processes (h) ______ word formation, though they may be inflected if they are singular count nouns (pizzas. Chapattis). Sometimes the names of products can be taken over (i) ______ general use. For example, hoover and Mac are brand names that can also be applied (j) ______ the object (Mac refers to the name of Apple Macintosh computers).

Complete the following sentences with suitable phrases/words given in the box.

(a) Everything became fresh again______ the storm was over.
(b) Long ago______ lived a wise king named Solomon who was famous for his wisdom.
(c) ______ was autumn when the writer went to a mountain to stay there.
(d) Our Test Examination is going on. We______ make the best use of our time.
(e) ______ working in the government office______. You seem to be very happy with your govt. service.
(f) Student: Madam, ______ a dinosaur______? Teacher: Sorry, I have never seen a dinosaur.
(g) We ______ remain unfed than beg in the street. Begging is certainly a great curse.
(h) Talha has no interest in any kind of work______ starting a business.
(i) Your pen must be checked before going to the exam hall.______ it ran short in the middle of the exam?
(j) Mr. Siddiq is very envious. He thinks______ he were a great scholar in the world.

Complete the sentences using suitable clauses/phrases.

(a) A lot of passengers were waiting at the bus stop. The bus was so small ______.
(b) Corruption is a great problem in our country. It is high time we______.
(c) He was indifferent to his study. Had he studied seriously, ______.
(d) He is going to the railway station. He walks fast lest______the train.
(e) Most of the students could not answer the question. It was too difficult for______
(f) You cannot buy a car unless______. It costs a lot.
(g) You are now sick. Call me in case ______.
(h) We were unable to go by train because of______.
(i) A newspaper is the storehouse of knowledge. A man can be benefited in many ways______.
(j) Wait here until______. Don’t go anywhere.

Read the following text and fill in the gaps with the correct form of verbs as per subject and context.

(a) ______ (Destroy) the cultural heritage of a country as a weapon to undermine its people (b) ______(be) a tactic of war. In recent decades, that (c) ______(include) the destruction of cultural and religious sites in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s; the Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan in 2001; and The Great Mosque of Aleppo, Syria in 2016. Cultural property protection (CPP) (d) ______ (have) a long history in military law. The earliest surviving code of discipline for an English army (e) ______ (be) the 1385 Durham Ordinances, (f) ______ (draw) up for Richard I’s invasion of Scotland, which (g) ______ (include) an article not (h) ______(damage) religious or other cultural buildings. The US (i) ______ (accept) as the first country to make CPP part of its military policy, through the 1863 Lieber Code, (j) ______ (write) for Federal forces during the American Civil War. Today, intentional targeting of cultural and religious sites that (k) ______ (be) not military goals and do not (l) ______ (contribute) to military action (m) ______(prohibit) in international humanitarian law, in the 1954 Hague Convention on the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict, and its second protocol (n) ______ (draw) up in 1999.