Read the passage given below and complete it by selecting the right words from the choices given to match them to the numbered blanks.
While a certain 1 attitude can be detected in the 2 of fast food in the narratives of the established 3 , the popular writings which appear in cookbooks and dailies 4 the virtues of fast food. A quick 5 through some of the recipes published in ‘Metro Plus’ in The Hindu, a 6 Indian newspaper, will show the importance given to the time 7 to cook as well as the appliances which are 8 in cooking. On the cover of a popular ‘Readymade Paneer’, I have come across the 9 ‘no cooking required’. All that is required is heating the food in a microwave oven. This is probably the other end of the 10 of food writing in India where minimalism has become the buzzword. More importantly, their entry into the group of Indian English writers also signals a significant shift in the way we look at Indian writing in English.
(1) (A) celebratory
(B) disapproving
(C) elated
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
(2) (A) description
(B) painting
(C) writing
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
(3) (A) cooks
(B) authors
(C) writers
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
(4) (A) praise
(B) hate
(C) flay
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
(5) (A) gaze
(B) look
(C) inspection
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
(6) (A) good
(B) leading
(C) weekly
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
(7) (A) required
(B) needed
(C) allotted
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
(8) (A) used
(B) not used
(C) left
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
(9) (A) order
(B) instruction
(C) paragraph
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
(10) (A) spectrum
(B) field
(C) genre
(D) More than one of the above
(E) None of the above
