......116......
Directions: In the following item, a passage is given, in which there are ten blank spaces alone with four options each for filling those blanks. Find the most appropriate word from the options provided to fill in the blanks, and mark your response on the Answer Sheet. ......111...... by the charm of nature around him, man has expressed his appreciation of it in works of art produced by him. This goes back to a time ......112...... he was still a primitive being. Art ......113...... a softening influence on him. The earliest paintings of the prehistoric age in the caves all over the world give us magnificent examples of the ......114...... eye and the trained hand in man’s savage state. The colours chosen, the movement ......115...... and the expressions the pictures are ......116...... with really make us marvel, even if all of them are not of the ......117...... of the paintings at ......118...... days of the early man in India. It is a great and true experience that Kalidasa expresses, when he feels that ......119...... the happiest man feels ......120...... when he sees beautiful things or hears melodious notes.
- A. suffixed
- B. suffused ✓
- C. suffusing
- D. surfaced
Correct Answer: B. suffused
Explanation
'Suffused with' means to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light. Here, the expressions seem to pervade the pictures.
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