SSC CGL Tier-1 17-08-2017 Shift 2 Solved Paper

Directions (Q.Nos. 96-100) In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives. “Jim Crow” shuns the mountains for reasons satisfactory to himself; not so the magpie, the raven, and .......... mischief-maker, Clark’s nutcracker. All of which keeps the bird-lover from the East in an ecstasy of surprises until he has.......... accustomed to his changed environment. One cannot help .......... into the speculative mood in view of the sharp contrasts.......... the birds of the East and............of the West.