For the following questions answer them individually
An island in Japan boasts of numerous dairy farms that own nearly one million cows,and supplies 70% of the milk sold in the country. These dairy farms have now begunto use cow manure to produce hydrogen. The methane from cow manure mingleswith steam in a high temperature environment to produce hydrogen, which is used toelectrify the local zoo. __________________________.
As globalization held sway over the world, communities, which used to live inrelative isolation, sought access to the wider world, and in the process, they partedwith their own language and adopted a new lingua franca. The loss of language,however, does not merely mean the loss of a mode of communication or the loss ofa few thousand words. __________________________. So, when a language dies, a wayof thinking dies with it.
On the first day of January 2025, the Indian Meteorological Department [IMD]announced that 2024 was the hottest year on record. A study by the Council onEnergy, Environment and Water shows that nearly eight out of ten Indians live indistricts that are at risk of either a flood, a cyclone, or a drought. Nearly twentythree States in India are heatwave-prone. __________________________. In the summerof 2024, India recorded more than 44,000 cases of heatstroke and over 300 heat-related mortalities, as per the bulletin of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.Water reservoirs and the energy demand that keeps India powered are impactedtoo. During a ten-day long heatwave in Delhi, peak power demand was 16% higherthan the previous year.
Art can be ____________ because it encourages individuals to express their emotionsthrough a creative outlet, allowing them to process complex feelings, reduce stress,and ____________ self-awareness.
Astronauts who stayed for an ____________ period of time at the International SpaceStation displayed a remarkable level of ____________ endurance and mental____________.
While Curcumin, which is an ______ found in turmeric helps to reduce ______,extremely high doses of it can ______ headache and nausea.
The notion of personhood is ____________ on something more than a particular type ofgenetic material within human beings: it arises only with the larger-scale structural____________ of that material, which permits capacities like ____________, thought andmoral agency.
Since chronic stress can ____________ the immune system, making individuals moresusceptible to illness and ____________ their overall well-being, healthcarepractitioners often recommend mindfulness practices and proper sleep to____________ these negative effects.
Psychologists urge users to remember that social media rarely reflects the fullcomplexity of real life. Influencers often ____________ a carefully curated onlinepersona, which can ____________ unrealistic standards and occasionally ____________negative self-comparisons amongst their followers.
CONVERSATION ANALYSIS: Read thefollowing transcript and choose theanswer that is closest to each of thequestions that are based on thetranscript.
Lucia Rahilly (Global Editorial Director,The McKinsey Podcast): Today we'retalking about the next big arenas ofcompetition, about the industries thatwill matter most in the global businesslandscape, which you describe asarenas of competition. What do wemean when we use this term?
Chris Bradley (Director, McKinseyGlobal Institute): If I go back and look atthe top ten companies in 2005, theywere in traditional industries such as oiland gas, retail, industrials, andpharmaceuticals. The average companywas worth about
250 billion. If Iadvance the clock forward to 2020, ninein ten of those companies have beenreplaced, and by companies that areeight times bigger than the old guards.
And this new batch of companiescomes from these new arenas orcompetitive sectors. In fact, they're sodifferent that we have a nickname forthem. If you're a fan of Harry Potter, it'swizards versus muggles.
Arena industries are wizard-ish; wefound that there's a set of industries thatplay by very different set of economicrules and get very different results,while the rest, the muggles (eventhough they run the world, finance theworld, and energize the world), play bya more traditional set of economic rules.
Lucia Rahilly: Could we put a finer pointon what is novel or different about thelens that you applied to determinewhat's a wizard and what's a muggle?
Chris Bradley: Wizards are defined bygrowth and dynamism. We looked atwhere value is flowing and the placeswhere value is moving.
And where is the value flowing? Whatwe see is that this set of wizards, which represent about ten percent ofindustries, hog 45 percent of the growthin market cap. But there's anotherdimension or axis too, which isdynamism. That is measured by a newmetric we've come up with called the"shuffle rate." How much does thebottom move to the top? It turns out thatin this set of wizard-ish industries, orarenas, the shuffle rate is much higherthan it is in the traditional industry.
Lucia Rahilly: So, where are we seeingthe most profit?
Chris Bradley: The economic profit,which is the profit you make minus thecost for the capital you employ is in thewizard industries. It's where R&Dhappens; they're two times more R&Dintensive. They're big stars, the nebulae,where new business is born.