Question Paper from: IBPS Clerk Prelims 2016

Once upon a time, there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess, but she would have to be a real princess. He …(21)… all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. One evening during a terrible storm; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in torrents. Suddenly a knocking was ..(22).. at the palace door, and the old king went to open it. It was a princess standing out there. But, good gracious! What a sight the rain and the wind had made her look. The water ran down her hair and clothes; into the toes of her shoes and out again at the heels. And yet she insisted that she was a real princess. Well, we’ll soon …(23)… out, thought the old queen. But she said nothing, went into the bedroom, took all the bedding off the bedstead, and ..(24)..a pea on the bottom; then she took twenty mattresses and laid them on the pea, and then twenty quilts on …(25)… of the mattresses. On this, the princess had to lie all night. In the ..(26).. she was asked how she had slept. “Oh, very badly !” said she. “I scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed. But I was lying on something hard, as a…(27)… I am black and blue all over my body. It’s horrible !” Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had ..(28).. the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty quilts. Nobody but a real princess could be as irritable ..(29).. as that. So the prince took her for his wife, for now, he…(30)… that he had a real princess.

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