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Direction: In the following questions, you have several passages where some of the words have been left out. Read the passages carefully and choose the correct answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Passage - I

In many hill and (146) areas of developing countries such as the Himalayan region, agriculture is (147) in the hands of women, since men (148) to go to towns and cities in search of salaried jobs which can (149) family income. Therefore, without the total intellectual and (150) participation of women, it will not be possible to popularise (151) systems of land management of shifting cultivation (152) gene and soil erosion and promote the (153) of the soil and the health of economic plants and farm animals. Scientific and technological (154) of rural women alone can (155) in prosperity to them as well as the rural society.

A) remote  

B)  inaccessible

C) fertile                

D) fringe