India’s __(1)_____ over the past half century since independence has been unique and ____(2)____ in many ways. Yet the record is _____(3)_____ in relation to what the country set out to achieve and could certainly have been ___(4)__. It is ___(5)___ to look at both sides; the alternative is to be ___(6)_____ down by unrelieved gloom or unwarranted ____(7)____. The fact is that after eight years, the five year plans, about 40% of population is ____(8)_____ below poverty line. The human development indices are ____(9)___ low, placing India at the 126th position in the world table, far below many countries that came into ___(10)___ much than it did.

1.
a) excellence
b) development
c) domination
d) predicament
e) history

2.
a) commendable
b) dubious
c) insignificant
d) desperate
e) special

3.
a) played
b) outshining
c) broken
d) disappointing
e) brighter

4.
a) exaggerated
b) underplayed
c) accomplished
d) tampered
e) noteworthy

5.
a) suggested
b) proposed
c) futile
d) impracticable
e) necessary

6.
a) brought
b) laid
c) struck
d) cooled
e) weighted

7.
a) complacency
b) progress
c) debating
d) meticulousness
e) hastle

8.
a) far
b) much
c) still
d) obviously
e) found

9.
a) amusingly
b) deplorably
c) admirably
d) surprisingly
e) not

10.
a) India
b) world
c) being
d) independence
e) compete