Read the text and complete the sentences with the correct words. (5 × 1 = 5) Time had filled my pockets with packages of ill fortune. I was a girl who had been robbed by fate, who had neither the sweetness nor the joy of life. So how could life be as I had imagined? In the end, I had to live, and so I did. But I lived as if there was no difference between the life of an animal and the life of a human being. The only difference was that even though I lived an animal's life, I ate rice, that was all. A life without the invisible sympathies and sensation of the human heart, which has no hurt, no colour, no individuality: perhaps only a very few people get through this condition. A poet might want to write a beautiful poem about escaping from this kind of life, some sensitive person might like this story. But at that time my life was such a burden that it hurt me, and it had become hard to endure the pain. (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) Compulsory English Reading and Writing Test Time: 3 hours Full Marks: 75 Candidates are requested to answer according to the given instructions. . The speaker's life was full of After her birth, she lived the life of of life. Having been robbed fate, she had no joy and A poet could compose a beautiful poem to be read by Her pains and hurt were so intense that she could hardly given below. about her burdensome life. them. (10)