SRCC GBO 2021

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.
Knowledge ______ animal behaviour and migration is much easier to pass on when woven ______ the narrative of a story brought to life ______ artistic representations.

Architect : Drawing board :: Painter : ?

Person : Crowd :: Musician : ?

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As the ______ of the school, she was ______ responsible for ensuring the students were guided by strict values and ______.

Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks of the given sentence.
______ a few moments you will hear the whistling of the wild thrush who nests ______ the trees ______ our house.

The given sentence has four underlined phrases. Choose the one that is INCORRECT and the option that gives the grammatically correct phrase.
Mumbai has a far larger population than Naples, but both cities are places of striking contrasts, of prosperous neighbourhoods narrowly separated entangled by crowded slums and narrow streets.

Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word in the given sentence.
Relentless advertising campaigns are telling Indian parents that coding is critical because making children code will develop their cognitive skills.

Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the right order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. Publishing executives have long described their business as recession-proof; books, after all are relatively cheap compared to other things.

B. While the restrictions of the pandemic have affected business, it is true that a person can watch only so much Netflix, and there aren’t a lot of other options.

C. It is not surprising then that bookstores are performing well; business got a boost when, early in the pandemic, Amazon deprioritised books to focus on medical supplies and household staples.

D. This is because the market for books remained stable after the 2008 recession. However, the challenges in 2020 have been more extreme, with social distancing restrictions at warehouses, vast lockdowns and a rapid economic meltdown.

Choose the most appropriate option to fill in the blank of the given sentence.
I ______ at least 500 books by the end of the year.

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The operator asked the caller to ______ while he transferred the call to the right department.