SSC CHSL 2022 PYQ — Question 3

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Poetry and novels became very (1)_________ in the 18th century. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe was published in 1719. This is regarded as the first successful English novel. It is partly based on the true life adventures of a traveller called Alexander Selkirk. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels was written in 1726 and (2)_________ four imaginary journeys of a ship’s doctor named Gulliver. Poetry (3)_________ around British people and places. Poets also considered nature as a source of (4)_________. The poets wrote in a simple style and language so that the (5)_________ masses could understand it.