Directions (1-11): In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Mark your answer in the Answer Sheet.
Books introduce to us the best (1): -------- they bring us (2)-------- the presence of the greatest (3)------- that have ever lived. We hear what they said and did; we see them as if they were (4)------- alive; we share their (5)--------, we sympathize with them, (6)------- with them in the scenes which they describe. The great and the good do not (7)-------- even in this world (8)------- in books, their spirits walk (9)--------. The book is a living (10)-----------; it is an (11)--------- to which one still listens.