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Select the most appropriate sequence from the given options to make a meaningful paragraph from jumbled sentences.
A. She was a tall woman and she carried a large purse.
B. Suddenly a boy ran up behind her and tried to snatch her purse.
C. It was 11 o’clock at night and a woman was walking alone.
D. It had a long strap, and she carried it slung across her shoulder.
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
Comprehension:
In a rare show of honesty, a gardener of the irrigation department has handed (1)______ to the police 57 tolas of gold (2)______ by him while working in the (3)______ of the superintending engineer’s bungalow in Raipur. The (4)______in turn has handed over the (5)______ to the Central Excise and Customs Department (6)______investigation. It was in June this year (7)______ Ramdayal found a tiny plastic box, meticulously (8)______ with polythene, buried six inches (9)______ under a Banyan tree, while digging the garden. He (10)______ the box and took it to his house behind the bungalow and was dazzled to find that it contained biscuits, bangles and coins all of gold.
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ALLURING
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The authorities are planning to lift restrictions on the movement of people in the Valley from the coming week.
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Mother said to Kavya, “Turn on the light.”
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No one inform me that you would be absent.
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A. Security cameras captured the whole incident.
B. Commuters in Virginia, USA got a shock when a deer entered a metro station.
C. However, it eventually backed out and ran away unharmed.
D. Nobody knows how it made into the station.
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The little girl asked her mother if she could visit her friend’s house.
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He was surprised at me refusing to accept his offer.
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Pushpa said, “I arrived at the workshop an hour ago but nothing much is happening here.”
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When we arrived at his house, we were welcomed by his parents.
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TURBULENT
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For most people a six figure salary was unimaginable two decades ago.
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A brick falling from the roof top broke the front glass of my car.
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I have visited several places in India, but I ______ the Andaman and Nicobar Islands yet.
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A dome-shaped shelter built from blocks of solid snow used by Eskimos
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The trouble makers took to their heels when they saw the police coming.
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Having been a student activist once, a politician never forget those days.
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Your behavior annoys me greatly.
The Indian army has inducted several women officers in Infantry and Armoured Corps.
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Prasad recalled that meeting people have been a part of his life as a student activist.
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The teacher said to Mohit, “Go to your seat and sit quietly”
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The rescue team dug out a soldier from the snow ______ how he could have survived for seven days buried under it.
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A. It is because nowadays people have no time for recreation.
B. But this pastime is getting out of favour now.
C. It is really a thrilling exercise.
D. Flying kites is my favourite pastime.
A. If we drove 10 kilometers along the road that branched off to the right, we would reach Barhampur.
B. Aditya and I were returning from the site of our new factory.
C. We had reached a point where the road bifurcated.
D. We were driving along National Highway 40.
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
Comprehension:
Hunter-gatherer culture was the way of life for early humans until around 11,000 to 12,000 years ago. The lifestyle of hunter-gatherers was (1) ______ on hunting animals and foraging for food. Anthropologists (2)______ discovered evidence for the practice of hunter-gatherer culture
(3)______ modern humans (Homo sapiens) and their distant ancestors dating as (4)______ back as two million years ago. Before the (5)______ of hunter-gatherer culture, earlier groups relied on (6)______practice of scavenging animal remains that predators left (7)______. Because hunter-gatherers did not rely on agriculture, (8)______ used mobility as a survival strategy. Indeed, (9)______ lifestyle required access to large areas of (10)______ to find the food they needed for survival.
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The old man lifted the heavy bundle with hardly no effort at all.
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Did you receive my letter?
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Many companies prefer that the new employees have not only a degree also two years’ work experience .
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When Anshul told everyone that he had resigned his job, all the members in the family were at their wits’ end .
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I was surprised to see as Avika could write such good poems in Hindi.
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Has the car been cleaned by the driver?
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The Science which studies the crust of the earth
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Frost occurs in the northern part of the state as frequently than in the central part.
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A. They appeared to be posing for ‘selfies’.
B. An expeditioner had left it sitting on the ice while he visited a rookery.
C. In Antarctica, two penguins found a video camera.
D. The penguins curiously stared down at the camera.
A. Mr Adams was very proud of it and insisted on an inspection by everyone.
B. The vault was a small one but it had a new patented door.
C. It fastened three solid steel bolts thrown simultaneously with a single handle, and had a time lock.
D. The Elmore Bank had just put in a new safe and vault.
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full of beans
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We have sufficient food and clothing about the flood victims in Kerala.
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EMPATHY
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Who was the first to declare that the earth is round ?
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The officer ordered the fellow to be arrested.
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If the bus hadn’t broken down, we will be at home now.
By my opinion it is better to cancel the trip during this monsoon.
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Preparations were being made for the sports meet at the school.
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Bhanu made a working model of an airplane ______ when he was sixteen.
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A. I caught a snake once.
B. That well is full of snakes.
C. I caught it by its tail and dropped it in the old well.
D. Whenever we catch one, instead of killing it, we drop it in the well.
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This is strictly ______ but some changes are going to happen in the company in the near future.
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A. There were some mangoes lying beside him.
B. She looked at the mangoes longingly.
C. Romi was growing fast and was nearly always hungry.
D. Just as he was about to eat one, Kamla came along.
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Please share your class notes with me.
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Rahul said, “I can speak French.”
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For a long time he kept his wife in the dark about the true nature of his job.
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Everything has became very expensive these days.
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the cultivation of grapevines.
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EVIDENCE
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She told the villagers that she would not rest till she had solved their water problem.
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A. It was tossed high on the waves.
B. A violent storm rocked the sea.
C. The helpless people aboard the ship plunged into the sea.
D. Fierce winds struck a sailing ship.
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Bhanu promised that he would have come today but he hasn’t arrived yet.
If he is more careful , he wouldn’t have had an accident.
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Doctors are constantly monitoring the condition of the patient.
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PERSIST
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Organizing World Cup matches in England imply that rains can be a constant threat.
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Who can help me with Mathematics?
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The royal family hid their internal discord and presented a united front on its country .
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a room where medicines are prepared and provided
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By whom was this window pane broken?
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COGENT
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A poster on Independence Day was being made by Avika.
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My friend has started a restaurant in a wooden big building in Manali.
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The lady said to the plumber, “Why didn’t you come last week? The RO machine has been making some noise for the last ten days.”
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Why he was angry with the guard?
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the science dealing with X-rays and other high-energy radiation, especially for the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
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The patient waited in dread for the trolley it would taken him to the operation theatre.
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India and Bhutan signed ten MOUs in the field of space research, aviation, power and education.
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Wealth creators are essential for money to distributed in the economy.
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fear of heights
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When Rohit saw Saurabh, he said, “Oh, how tall you have grown!”
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This is one of the best book that I have read.
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Most of the work of this NGO are of little benefit to the disadvantaged.
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Addressing a public meeting, Rajnath Singh said, “Whatever talks take place they will be on the issue of Pakistan occupied Kashmir.”
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We urgently need well qualified teachers for our school .
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A. I learnt to push Lily’s wheel chair.
B. I stopped the chair in front of the pond and watched Lily roll her eyes to see the ducks.
C. All of a sudden, the wheelchair shook violently.
D. One afternoon, I wheeled her to the park.
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More roles for women will be opened up in the ranks of soldiers by the Indian army.
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The teacher asked Avika what had happened to her and why her nose was bleeding.
The saint prayed that God might pour all his blessings on the newly married couple.
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the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.
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The film Jurassic Park was directed by Steven Spielberg.
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He spends good deal of money on clothing.
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Rani said, “We are organizing a cleaning programme in the colony tomorrow.”
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I will tell him that I don’t want to join the art classes.
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My cousin has been ill since three days .
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In order for he to attend the meeting, he needs to prepare exhaustive notes.
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Comprehension:
Nothing, not even the angry, red eruptions on her face and body, will stop Sneha from aiming for her “dream job”. “I love the Indian Army,” says the 18-year-old, as she sits by herself under one of the canopies at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Stadium of the Maratha Light Infantry Regimental Centre in Belagavi, Karnataka. Outside the enclosure, around 35 women run on the 400-m track.
A day earlier, Sneha had cleared her ground tests — a 1.6-km race that had to be completed in eight minutes or less, high jump and long jump — and physical fitness tests, when she was diagnosed with chickenpox. Now on medication for the pox, she is back at the stadium for a medical examination as part of the recruitment process. As she waits for her turn, isolated from the other women, Sneha, says, “I had no fever when I left home in Kerala. Even when I reached Belagavi and got these pimples, I did not think much of it. So I came for my physical and ground tests.”
Accompanied by her mother and uncle, Sneha, who is pursuing a computer course in her hometown Iritty, about 41 km from Kannur, made the 611-km journey from home to Belagavi spending eight hours in a bus and three hours on a train. She is among the 850-odd women, many of whom have travelled several hundred kilometers, to turn up at the first-ever recruitment rally for women to the Indian Army’s Corps of Military Police.
The recruitment of women as Soldier General Duty (Women Military Police) marks the first time that women will be taken in not only as officers, but as soldiers, giving them an opportunity to be involved in active military duties. As personnel of the military police, the women soldiers will be responsible for investigating offences such as molestation, theft, and rape; “assisting in the maintenance of good order and discipline”; and in custody and handling of prisoners of war — essentially combat-support operations.
The move is part of a slow opening up of avenues for women in the armed forces. In his Independence Day speech last year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said women officers recruited into the armed forces under the Short Service Commission would be given the option of taking up permanent commission — a “gift” to India’s “brave daughters”. Following a notification issued by the Army on April 25, around 15,000 women registered for the recruitment rally at Belagavi, the first of five such to be held across India to fill 100 positions in the Military Police. The Belagavi centre catered to candidates from the southern states of Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and the Union
Territories of Lakshadweep, Andaman and Nicobar and Puducherry. Of the 15,000 aspirants, about 3,000 were short-listed on the basis of their Class 10 marks, with the cut-off set at 86 per cent. Of the shortlisted candidates, only about one-third turned up at the Belagavi centre
between August 1 and 5 at the date and time assigned to them. Just then, outside the enclosure where Sneha is sitting, a shrill whistle pierces the air and another batch of girls takes off — feet on the wet ground, mostly bare, making a dash for their place in history. “Does everybody understand English?” asks Major Chaudhry and the group of 30 women, sitting on red carpets on the ground, bellows: “Yes”.
What is the occasion being talked about in the passage?
Which city does Sneha come from?
Why are there eruptions on Sneha’s face?
How many women are participating at the recruitment rally at Belagavi?
What gift was announced by the PM in his Independence Day speech last year for the brave daughters of the country?
In what way is ‘history’ being made in Belagavi?
Which of the following duties will be borne by women soldiers?
1. Investigating offences involving molestation, theft and rape.
2. Assisting in maintaining order and discipline.
3.Administrative jobs
4. Handling prisoners of war in custody.
Which of the following is NOT necessary to qualify for the recruitment in the armed forces?
Which of the following states were not covered by the Belagavi centre?
Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?
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Major Chaudhry said to the aspirants, “Does everyone understand English?”
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A. Flying kites is an old world sport.
B. This sport involves a lot of risk.
C. So, one has to be very cautious and skilful.
D. It was quite popular during the days of the Nawabs.
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The soldiers carried around the orders of their commander without question.
In an examination, it is more important to answer accurately than a quick finish.
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The Finance Minister said, “The Government will trim the corporate tax gradually to 25 percent for all companies.”
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
Comprehension:
The other day there was a heavy downpour in our town. The roads looked (1) ______ small rivulets. There was a house (2) ______ our locality which was in a (3)______ condition. All of a sudden it collapsed. (4) ______ news spread in the whole (5) ______ like wild fire.
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What is the function of the kidney in the body?
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A. And I was earning barely enough money to keep body and soul together.
B. It was twenty years ago.
C. At that time I was living in Paris.
D. I had a tiny apartment in the Latin Quarter overlooking a cemetery.
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Her mother advised her not to go too fast while reciting her poem.
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A. The other day we entered the city’s only Jewish cemetery.
B. But then, it should not be a surprise.
C. We were astonished to discover how tiny it was.
D. Although Jewish people have lived in India for generations, they are one of the nation’s tiniest minorities.
A. The officers are looking to reunite the dog with his owner.
B. Eventually, the police caught the Chihuahua.
C. A police officer on a motorcycle chased the dog.
D. A Chihuahua ran across California’s San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
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Comprehension:
At a number of places in the Kashmir Valley, security forces have put coils of razor wire on roads to enforce restrictions on movement. Concertina wire or razor wire fences are used along territorial borders and in areas of conflict around the world, to keep out combatants,
terrorists, or refugees.
The expandable spools of barbed or razor wire get their name from concertina, a hand-held musical instrument similar to the accordion, with bellows that expand and contract. Concertina wire coils were an improvisation on the barbed wire obstacles used during World War I. The flat, collapsible coils with intermittent barbs or blades were designed to be carried along by infantry, and deployed on battlefields to prevent or slow down enemy movement.
The Englishman Richard Newton is credited with creating the first barbed wire around 1845; the first patent for “a double wire clipped with diamond shaped barbs” was given to Louis François Janin of France. In the United States, the first patent was registered by Lucien B Smith on June 25, 1867, for a prairie fence made of fireproof iron wire. Michael Kelly twisted razor wires together to form a cable of wires. The American businessman Joseph F Glidden is considered to be the father of the modern barbed wire. He designed the wire with two intertwined strands held by sharp prongs at regular intervals.
Barbed wire was initially an agrarian fencing invention intended to confine cattle and sheep, which unlike lumber, was largely resistant to fire and bad weather. An advertorial published in the US in 1885 under the title ‘Why Barb Fencing Is Better Than Any Other’, argued that “it does not decay; boys cannot crawl through or over it; nor dogs; nor cats; nor any other animal; it watches with Argus eyes the inside and outside, up, down and lengthwise; it prevents the ‘ins’ from being ‘outs’, and the ‘outs’ from being ‘ins’, watches at day-break, at noontide, at
sunset and all night long…” Barbed wire was put to military use in the Siege of Santiago in 1898 during the Spanish- American War, and by the British in the Second Boer War of 1899-1902 to confine the families of the Afrikaans-speaking Boer fighters.
World War I saw extensive use of barbed wire — and German military engineers are credited with improvising the earliest concertina coils on the battlefield. They spun the barbed wire into circles and simply spread it on the battlefield. Without using any support infrastructure like poles etc. this was more effective against the infantry charge by Allied soldiers.
The fence erected by India along the Line of Control to keep out terrorist infiltrators consists of rows of concertina wire coils held by iron angles. They are now commonly seen and are used to secure private properties as well.
What is the main theme of the above passage?
Who is credited with creating the modern barbed wire?
What was the initial purpose of inventing the barbed wire?
Who first spread the barbed wires on the field without using the poles or any other support system?
Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?
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A. There had already been abundant rainfall in Delhi.
B. It was the fag end of summer.
C. A strong wind began to blow and the rain came causing havoc all around.
D. One day, however, we had a cyclonic storm.
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I said to Taru, “The tyre of my car is punctured.”
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Rohit did not came to the office because he got held up due to the heavy rains.
Despite incessant rains, she is the only one who plan to attend the meeting at the ministry.
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pie in the sky
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A. Due to the movie, tourists started coming to the beach there.
B. Maya Bay in Thailand was in the media in 1999 when Hollywood arrived there to film ‘The Beach’.
C. One of the film’s actors was Leonardo Di Caprio.
D. As many as 4,000 visitors would arrive on boats every day.
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In view of the excessive heat, schools in Delhi remained closed ______a week in July.
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Everybody is waiting to see whether the new leadership has effect some changes soon in the party.
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Comprehension:
LAST WEEK, scientists from all corners of India descended on Ahmedabad to remember the architect of India’s space programme, a man whom the late president, APJ Abdul Kalam, had famously termed “Mahatma Gandhi of Indian Science”.
They were there to launch celebrations on the birth centenary of Vikram Sarabhai, 47 years after his death at the age of 52, by when he had founded 38 institutions that are now leaders in space research, physics, management and performing arts.
Former director of the Space Applications Centre Pramod Kale was a 19-year old science graduate from MS University of Baroda, besotted by space technology, when he first met Sarabhai. “In May 1960, I went to Ahmedabad to meet Dr. Sarabhai. “I met him and ended up talking for two hours,” Kale says.
By June that year, Kale had done exactly as Sarabhai had advised him and taken up a master’s course at Gujarat University. In 1962, when Sarabhai was looking at studying the magnetic equator, Kale went on to be among the first few to go to NASA to learn radar tracking. The room resounded with many such memories. Former ISRO chairman K Kasturirangan remembered how they ran into some trouble at the Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), founded in 1947 by Sarabhai, in their attempts to fly a balloon at 4 am, when in sailed Sarabhai. “He told us had the flight been successful, you would not have learnt even half of what you learnt because of that initial problem,” said Kasturirangan.
Many of those who had collected in Ahmedabad in Sarabhai’s memory were teenagers when they first met him. Gandhinagar-based entrepreneur K Subramanian was 19 and a student of National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, working on a summer project at PRL, when a man in a kurta-pyjama walked in and began turning all the wastepaper bins upside down, inspecting their contents and putting them back again. “I asked a colleague who that was and was told it is Dr Vikram Sarabhai. He had come to check how much waste the lab was generating,” laughs Subramanian.
Born to Ambalal and Sarla Devi, Ahmedabad’s leading textile-mill owners, Vikram Sarabhai showed creative promise early. He was 15 when he built a working model of a train engine with the help of two engineers, which is now housed at the Community Science Centre (CSC) in Ahmedabad. The CSC was Vikram’s way of providing other children the privileges he had, of experimental research, says his son Kartikeya, 71, adding how his father wished to work with children at the science centre after he retired.
“He was essentially a researcher, and believed that people, especially children, should be allowed to think freely and come up with solutions on their own,” recalls Kartikeya, who founded the Centre for Environment Education in 1984. Kartikeya is carefully piecing together all the dog-eared notes he is discovering in the recesses of their three grand homes — Shanti Sadan, The Retreat and Chidambaram.
To inspire the young to dream like Sarabhai, Kartikeya is building a permanent exhibition gallery on the Sabarmati Riverfront, expected to open this November.
What was the occasion for the gathering at Ahmedabad?
What is Vikram Sarabhai mainly known for?
Among the people who had gathered at Ahmedabad, who was the former chairman of ISRO?
Which statement shows that Vikram Sarabhai had a creative mind at an early age?
How did Vikram Sarabhai provide under-privileged children the experience of experimental research?
APJ Abdul Kalam called Vikram Sarabhai “Mahatma Gandhi of Indian Science”. What does ‘Mahatma Gandhi’ mean here?
Which statement is NOT true according to the passage?
‘He was a 19-year old science graduate besotted by space technology, when he first met Sarabhai.’ ‘besotted’ here means
Who among the following went to NASA to study radar tracking?
Where did K Subramanian come from to work at PRL?
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Pruning of trees in my colony has been started by the horticulture department.
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The officer told me that I needed to work harder to meet my targets otherwise I would have to leave the company.
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I am going to a holiday to Panchmarhi tomorrow.
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Avika said to her mother, “You are very late today.”
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Being a space scientist, you are advised not to take your work lightly.
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Mr. Lucas told his wife not to wait for him as he would be late at the studio that night.
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I came across some words which meaning I did not know.
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sell like hot cakes
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Mobile toilets were placed by the district administration behind the area where people assembled for army recruitment.
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A. All day I seem to remember, I played on the sands with strange exciting children.
B. Then watched the incoming tide destroy them.
C. My parents took me by car to a place by the sea.
D. We made sandcastles with huge walls.
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The height of an object or point in relation to sea level or ground level
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I am sure he will give me some advice about admission in the University of Delhi.
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Anshul said, “Should we go to the Zoo today?”
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causing no harm
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My sister said, “What time will the train reach Bhopal?”
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Comprehension:
A great water scarcity looms over India; by 2025 Indians will get just over half the water they get today. This grave problem has a simple solution. Catch the rain as it falls, and the water crisis will disappear. However, about 80 per cent of India’s rainfall buckets down during the
three months of the monsoons. As yet, no government programmer has discovered how to store this water.
‘Dying Wisdom’, a seven-year countryside study by Delhi’s Centre for Science and Environment, reveals that ruins of amazing ancient technologies survive in every corner of India. Drip-irrigation systems of bamboo pipes in Meghalaya; ‘kunds’, underground tanks in Rajasthan; ‘pynes’, water channels built by tribals in Bihar; and thousands of open-water bodies down south are all superb examples of rain water harvesting systems. Even today, tanks called ‘eris’ in Tamil Nadu water one-third of the state’s irrigated area. Unfortunately, governmental planners mostly refuse to acknowledge the potential of these low-cost systems, concentrating on costly dams and canals.
Few cities have lost touch with their ecological traditions as fast-and with as damaging results-as Bangalore. Only 17 of its water bodies struggle to survive in a city where once 200 lakes, ponds and wetlands cooled the city and recharged its ground water. The threats continue unabated as the relentless march of urbanization shows no sign of stopping.
‘This grave problem' in the passage refers to
What, according to the passage, is the primary reason for the water shortage?
Which State uses bamboo pipes for the drip irrigation system?
Which of the following is not a low cost technology in water usage?
The people in ancient India had amazing technology to harvest water. This shows that
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the feeling of being upset or annoyed as a result of being unable to change or achieve something.
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A. On Saturday the 10th, Typhoon Lekima made land fall in China’s Zhejiang province.
B. This province is often hit with typhoons, but this storm was its strongest ever.
C. The typhoon brought winds of up to 116mph, and floods affected almost 5 million people.
D. More than 1 million people were evacuated from their homes.
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I request you to not to crack jokes in the class.
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In the same boat
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The Social Media Department is headless at the moment and many are vying to the post.
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Right from the beginning ______ government’s focus has been on ______ development of the country.
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A. And taking this village lad into their midst was terribly upsetting.
B. She was by no means pleased with this unnecessary addition to her family.
C. When he reached Calcutta, Phatik met his aunt for the first time.
D. She found her own three boys quite enough to manage without taking in anyone else.
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He switched on the TV to listening to the speech of the PM on the Independence Day.
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They started playing badminton at a young age of nine years old .
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the customary code of polite behaviour in society
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The traveller said that he had come a long way off.
I told Vinod that the plumber had forgotten his mobile there.
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Now that Mr. Krishna Murthy has retired from the company, his daughter is ______.
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A. After around 20 minutes of the crash, the tanker caught fire and exploded.
B. On Saturday, an oil tanker in Tanzania lost control and overturned on a busy road.
C. Around 150 people gathered near the tanker and some of them tried to siphon away some fuel.
D. At least 61 people died and 70 more were injured.
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I asked my friend if he had seen the launch of the Chandrayaan2 from Sriharikota.
She says that Rani is a talented actress.
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a decision on which one cannot go back
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They talked over the matter of his leaving the job and going for further studies.
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They made her as the Chairperson of their bank.
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They can’t hardly believe that Article 370 is no longer valid in Jammu and Kashmir.
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