Read the following text.  The passage contains some blank spaces.  Choose the sentence from the list A – I, that best fits in each of the blank spaces.  The numbers in brackets refer to Question numbers.

Observe the dilemma of the fungus; it is a plant, but it is a plant, but is possesses no chlorophyll. While all other plants put the sun’s energy to work for them combining the nutrients of ground and air into the body structure the chlorophyll ___21_____ . It finds it in those other plants which, having received their energy free from the sun, relinquish it ____22____.

In this search for energy the fungus has become the earth’s major source of  rot and decay. Wherever you see mold forming on a piece of bread, or a pile of leaves turning to compost, or a bloom down tree becoming pulp on the ground, —-23—–. With the fungus action the earth would be poled high with ____24_____.

In fact, certain plants which contain resigns that are ___25____ specimen of the redwood, for the instance, can still be found ___26____

A.You are watching a fungus eating.
B.Resting on the forest  floor centuries after having been brown down,
C.Responsible for the decomposition of much plant life.
D.Fungus must look elsewhere for an energy supply.
E.Cannot produce their own store of energy.
F.The dead plant life of past centuries.
G.At some point in their cycle either to animal or to fungi.
H.Fungus is vastly different from other plants.
I.Toxic to fungi will last indefinitely.

In the summer of 999, Leif Erikson voyaged to Norway and spent the following winter with King Olaf Tryggvason. Substantially the same account is given by both the Saga of Erica and Red and the Flat Island Book. The latter says nothing about Leif’s return voyage to Greenland, but according to the former it was during this return voyage that Lief discovered America. The Flat Island Book, however, tells of another and earlier landfall by Biarni, that some prominent man named Heriulf makes the voyage to the new land by Lief. In brief, like Biarni and his companions who sight three countries in succession before reaching Greenland, come upon each new until Biarni comes to land directly in front of his father’s house in the last-mentioned country.

This narrative had been rejected by later writers, and they may be justified. Possibly Biarni was a companion of Lief when he voyaged from Norway to Greenland via America, or it may be that the entire tale is but a garbled account of that voyage Brainy another name for Life. It should be noted, however, that the stories of Lief’s visit to King Olaf and Biarni’s to that king’s predecessor, are in the same narrative in the Flat Island Book, so there is less likelihood of duplication then if they were from different sources.  Also, Brainy landed on none of the lands he passed, but Lief apparently landed on one, for he brought back specimens of wheat, vines, and timber. Nor is there any good reason to believe that the first land visited by Biarni was Wine land. The first land was “level and covered with woods”, and “there were small hillocks upon it.” Of forests, later writers do not emphasize them particularly in connection with Wine land, though they are often noted incidentally; and of bills, the Saga says of Wine land only “wherever there was hilly ground, there were vines”.

Additionally, if the two narratives were taken from the same source we should expect closer resemblance of Hell land. The Saga says of it: “They found there hellus (large flat stones).” According to the Biarni narrative, however, “this land was high and mountaineous.” The intervals of 1,2,3 and 4 “doer” in both narratives are suggestive, but mythic formulas of this kind may be introduced into narratives without altogether destroying their historicity. It is also held against the Biarni narrative that its hero is made to come upon the coast of Greenland exactly in front of his father’s home. But it should be recalled that Heriulfsness lay below two high mountains, which served as landmarks for navigators.

I would give up Biarni more readily were it not that the story of Leif’s voyage contained in the supposedly more reliable Saga is almost as amazing. But Leif’s voyage across the entire width of the North Atlantic is said to be “probable” because it is incorporated into the narrative of preferred authority, while Biarni’s is “improbable” or even “impossible” because the document containing it has been condemned.

(27)The author’s primary concern is to demonstrate that
A.Leif Erikson did not visit America
B.Biarni might have visited America before Leif Erikson
C.Biarni did not visited Wine land
D.Leif Erikson visited Wine land
E.Leif  Erikson was the same person as Biarni

(28)The passage provides information that that defines which of the following terms
I.Doer
II.Hellus
III.Heriulfsness

A.I only
B.II only
C.III only
D.I an II only
E.II and III only

(29)According to the passage, Wine land was characterized by which of the following geographical features
I.Woods
II.Flat rocs
III.Hills

A.I only
B.III only
C.I and III only
D.II an III only
E.I., II and III

(30) It can be inferred from the passage that scholars who doubt the authenticity of the Biarni narrative make all of the following objections BUT
A.Biarni might have accompanied Leif Erikson on the voyage to America, and that is why a separate, erroneous narrative was invented
B.The similarity of the voyages described in the Sage and in the Flat Island Book indicates that there was but one voyage, not two voyages.
C.It seems very improbable that a ship, having sailed from America to Greenland, could have found its way to precise point on the coast of Greenland
D.The historicity of the Saga of Eric the Red is well documented, while the historicity of the Flat Island Book is very doubtful.
E.Both the Saga Eric and Red and the Flat Island Book make use of mythical formulas, so it is probable that they were written by the same person

(31) The author mentions the two high mountains in order to show that it is
A. Reasonable for Biarni to land precisely at this fathers home.
B. Possible to sail from Norway to Greenland without modern navigational   
    equipment.
C. Likely the Boarni landed on America at least 100 years before Leif Erikson
D. Probable that Leif Erikson followed the same course as Birani
E. Questionable whether Birani required the same length of time to complete this
      voyage as Lief Erikson

(32)All of the following are mentioned as similarities between Leif Erikson voyage and Biarni’s voyage EXCEPT
A.Both visited Norway
B.On the return voyage, both visited three different lands
C.Both returned to Greenland
D.Both visited Wine land
E.Both visited Helluland