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DIRECTIONS (Qs. 66-69 ): Select the most appropriate word from the options against each number:
I peered at the river through a gap in the roots of the strangler fig. The thick branches of the tree 66 me without really protecting me. I noticed the gentlest of ripples in the water and then something 67 began to emerge from its depths. An enormous head upon a slender neck rose about the surface. I looked into the beast’s cold, reptilian eyes. I could sense no mind or soul behind them. I had to refrain from letting out a frightened 68 ! The time for retreating into the depths of the forest had arrived and I knew that it was 69 .
I peered at the river through a gap in the roots of the strangler fig. The thick branches of the tree 66 me without really protecting me. I noticed the gentlest of ripples in the water and then something 67 began to emerge from its depths. An enormous head upon a slender neck rose about the surface. I looked into the beast’s cold, reptilian eyes. I could sense no mind or soul behind them. I had to refrain from letting out a frightened 68 ! The time for retreating into the depths of the forest had arrived and I knew that it was 69 .
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