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Directions: in the following questions, you have passages where 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. The commonest from of forgetfulness, I suppose, 401 in the matter of posting letters. So, common is it that I am always 402 to trust a departing visitor to post an important letter. So little do I 403 on his memory that I put him on his oath before 404 the letter to him. As for myself, anyone who asks me to post a letter is a poor judge of character. 405 I carry the letter in my hand I am always past the first pillar-box before I remember that I ought to have posted it. 406 of holding it in my hand, I then put it for safety into one of my pockets and forget all about it. After that, it has an unadventurous life till a long chain of circumstances leads to a number of 407 questions being asked and I am 408 to produce the evidence of my guilt from my pocket. This it might be thought, must be due to 409 interest in other people's letters; but that cannot be the 410 for I forget to post some even of the few letters that I myself remember to write.

A) baffling

B) embarrassing

C) perplexing

D) perturbing