Read the following passage and answer the questions set on it:
Everyone needs a holiday, both to relax and to have a change of environment. The holiday makers feel relaxed and refreshed at the end of the holiday and look forward to the resumption of their duties, be it at school, office or factories, with renewed vigour. This is the reason why all establishments grant their employees annual leave with the end of the Academic year. The Schools and Universities grant their pupils a long holiday during mid summer. This will last until early June when the new school term starts. Of course the parents will like to take advantage of this and take their leave to coincide with the ****’ vacation. This has become a traditional holiday season in most **** countries particularly in India.
With the coming of April the traditional holiday season in India reaches its peak point and most of the holiday resorts are packed to capacity. In order to avoid the crowd some prefer to take their holiday a little earlier. Those who have already taken their holidays can console themselves not only with reflections on the happy days spent in the country, at the seaside or abroad but with the thought that holiday expenses are over and by taking an earlier holiday they have missed the April rush.
The main thing, of course is the weather and whatever the weather is like, the essence of a holiday for most is the carefree atmosphere in which it can be enjoyed. “Take all you need but leave your worries behind” is the sound advice for the holiday maker. Private worries are not always easy to escape from. However, even the pessimist would admit that for the moment things appear brighter than they have been.
Holiday time is surely a time for shedding serious preoccupations and seeking pleasures that appeal to us.
(a) Add a prefix to the word ‘advantage’ to form its antonym.
(b) What time is surely meant for shedding serious preoccupations?
(Fill in the blank with the appropriate form of the word in brackets)
(c) **** cannot control their ...... (excite) with the coming of the holiday season.
