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The biotechnology industry in India is likely to see a significant increase in the merger and acquisition (M & A) activity, according to research firm Grant Thornton. The Indian biotech industry has crossed the US $3 billion mark in 2010, witnessing a 23 per cent growth over the previous year. Of this, while the share of domestic firms stood at 47 per cent, exports accounted for 53 per cent of the overall revenues. India's highskill and low-cost advantage is said to have helped in gaining export contracts and clinical research bioservices.
The Indian biotech industry grew threefold in just five years to report revenues of US$3 billion in 2009-10, a rise of 17 per cent over the previous year, according to the eighth annual survey conducted by the Association of Biotechnology-Led Enterprises (ABLE) and a monthly journal, BioSpectrum, based on inputs from over 150 biotech companies.

An Olympic medalist, five time World Amateur Boxing champion and Padma Bhushan recipient Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom is an epitome of confidence, humility and dogged determination. Her grandmother named her Chungneijang which means prosperity but she decided to assume the name Mary because it was easier to pronounce.
In her childhood between attending school and playing all kinds of sports, Mary helped her parents in the fields. She was her fathers right hand, accompanying him wherever he found work as a farm hand. Life was tough because her family struggled to make ends meet and she always dreamed of living up to her name and supporting her family.
Although she loved all sport, the martial arts were her personal favourite.In 1998 when Manipuri boxer Dingko Singh won a gold medal at the Asian Games, Mary Kom decided to build a career in sports.
In the year 2000 when was adjudged best boxer at the state level sub-junior boxing championship, she realized that she was gifted and resolved to make a career in sport. Today the boxing champion and mother of two, who defied many a stereotype, is setting up her own boxing academy along with taking care of her family and training for the 2016 Olympics. When asked in an interview if there was anything she would like to say to the youth of the nation, she said The world today is full of distractions in almost every form and if you fail to notice them and overcome them you will end up nowhere or somewhere much less preferred.

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:
[/passage-header]    'Families of musical instruments'
    Have you ever thought about how many ways there are to make musical sounds? You can make music with your own body. You can sing, clap, or snap your fingers. Musical instruments allow us to make music beyond what our bodies are capable of. Bands and orchestras are made up of families, or groups, of musical instruments. Each family of instruments adds something unique to the music. 
    Strings are one family of musical instruments. You are probably familiar with some of these instruments. A guitar has strings. Guitar players make music by plucking the strings with their fingers. A violin has strings too, but a violin player uses a bow to make music. Bowing an instrument means sliding or scraping a bow over the strings. A bow is a smooth tool that makes the strings vibrate and produce sound. 
    Wind instruments make up another musical family. Wind instruments produce sound by moving columns of air. You may know someone who plays a flute. The flute is a tube-shaped wind instrument. A flute player makes music by blowing air over a hole in the tube. 
    Have you ever seen a clarinet? It is a wind instrument too. Clarinet players blow on a reed in the mouthpiece. The reed vibrates and sets the air inside the clarinet tube in motion. Trumpets, trombones, and French horns are other wind instruments, but they don't have reeds. 
    Drums make up one more family of instruments. Drums are made by stretching an animal hide over a bowl or open cylinder. 
People play drums by hitting the hide with a stick. Drums help keep the beat in a band or orchestra. Drums can be tuned to different tone levels. This is done by stretching or loosening the drum's hide covering. 
    Another family of musical instruments is the percussion group. Drums are often thought of as percussion. But true percussion instruments are made from a solid material that is shaken, struck, or scraped. Rattles, bells, and gongs are percussion instruments. A xylophone is a more complicated percussion instrument. It has keys that are struck with a hammer. Each key sounds a different pitch or tone level. 
   The number and range of musical instruments are amazing. The next time you hear - or play in - a band or orchestra, listen carefully to the richness and variety of sounds.

[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]To most people, landfill sites are holes in the ground where waste____(1)____ is buried. To garbologists, however, they provide a valuable ____(2)____ of information about a population's activities in areas such as food consumption and waste disposal. Garbology is a branch of ethnography, a science which abandons traditional methods of ___(3)___ market research information, such as questionnaires and focus groups, in favour of  ____(4)____ observation of people and their habits. The world's ___(5)___ garbologist, Professor William Rathje, is also an archaeologist. Archaeologists study past cultures by examining the ___(6)___ of objects and buildings, but the basic principles of archaeology can also be applied to the discarded rubbish of present day civilizations in order to ___(7)___ a better understanding of how people behave now. As founder and director of the Garbage Project at the University of Arizona, Professor Rathje has ___(8)___ over 30 years of his life to the archaeological study of modern refuse. His work is of ____(9)____ interest to commerce; companies need to understand the lives of their consumers in order to create brands which will be of most ___(10)___ to them. Rathje's ____(11)____ can help them achieve this. In addition, his analysis of the composition of landfill sites reveals a greater need not only to recycle more rubbish but also to  ___(12)___ down on the amount of rubbish we produce in the first place.

An Olympic medalist, five time World Amateur Boxing champion and Padma Bhushan recipient Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom is an epitome of confidence, humility and dogged determination. Her grandmother named her Chungneijang which means prosperity but she decided to assume the name Mary because it was easier to pronounce.
In her childhood between attending school and playing all kinds of sports, Mary helped her parents in the fields. She was her fathers right hand, accompanying him wherever he found work as a farm hand. Life was tough because her family struggled to make ends meet and she always dreamed of living up to her name and supporting her family.
Although she loved all sport, the martial arts were her personal favourite.In 1998 when Manipuri boxer Dingko Singh won a gold medal at the Asian Games, Mary Kom decided to build a career in sports.
In the year 2000 when was adjudged best boxer at the state level sub-junior boxing championship, she realized that she was gifted and resolved to make a career in sport. Today the boxing champion and mother of two, who defied many a stereotype, is setting up her own boxing academy along with taking care of her family and training for the 2016 Olympics. When asked in an interview if there was anything she would like to say to the youth of the nation, she said The world today is full of distractions in almost every form and if you fail to notice them and overcome them you will end up nowhere or somewhere much less preferred.

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]    Among the old Tedas, it was customary for certain tribesmen to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves a fearsome air of brutality, which was calculated to strike dread into the hearts of their foes. Of course, it's a fair guess that a cheetah or bison skin would make a warm, comfortable outer coat for a man whose life was in the most brutal of conditions atop ridges.
    Many legends tell of these cavemen-like soldiers, also known as Badangas, and folklore has it that they were physically transformed into the beasts whose skins they wore. The most common animals that the warriors were transformed into were the bull-tiger and leopard. Rumours suggest that the skins carried the power of the beasts and, when worn, turned the wearer into that animal at the height of its capabilities. The fact is that no one has ever set sight on a Badanga in the flesh.
    The Badanga was an object of sheer horror, as his life's object was to challenge quiet villagers to a duel. As the then law of the land stood in the Teda tribe, a man who declined to accept a challenge from a Badanga forfeited all his worldly possessions, even his wife, over to the hands of his challenger. Therefore, the Badanga had any man he challenged at his mercy. If the Badanga slews him, the farmer's possessions became his, and if the poor fellow declined to fight, he lost all legal right to his property anyway. A Badanga would invite himself to any feast and contribute to the hilarity of the entertainment by killing in gory fashion any merrymaker who displeased him. He might even single one out to murder for no other reason than to practice his combat skills.
    It is not difficult to imagine that popular superstition went along with the popular dread of these animal-skinned aggressors and that they were believed to be filled with the force, as they certainly were with the ferocity, of the beasts whose skins they wore.
    In the unlikely event of a villager slaying a Badanga warrior, he was revered as a divine savior and had a temple devoted to him. It wasn't easy. Fire merely singed, a scythe landed a mere scratch, and a venomous spear just put him to sleep - what it took was a club made of the betel tree stump to fell this fiery warrior. Of course, it comes as no surprise that no one has heard of one such village victory yet. 

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:
[/passage-header]    'Families of musical instruments'
    Have you ever thought about how many ways there are to make musical sounds? You can make music with your own body. You can sing, clap, or snap your fingers. Musical instruments allow us to make music beyond what our bodies are capable of. Bands and orchestras are made up of families, or groups, of musical instruments. Each family of instruments adds something unique to the music. 
    Strings are one family of musical instruments. You are probably familiar with some of these instruments. A guitar has strings. Guitar players make music by plucking the strings with their fingers. A violin has strings too, but a violin player uses a bow to make music. Bowing an instrument means sliding or scraping a bow over the strings. A bow is a smooth tool that makes the strings vibrate and produce sound. 
    Wind instruments make up another musical family. Wind instruments produce sound by moving columns of air. You may know someone who plays a flute. The flute is a tube-shaped wind instrument. A flute player makes music by blowing air over a hole in the tube. 
    Have you ever seen a clarinet? It is a wind instrument too. Clarinet players blow on a reed in the mouthpiece. The reed vibrates and sets the air inside the clarinet tube in motion. Trumpets, trombones, and French horns are other wind instruments, but they don't have reeds. 
    Drums make up one more family of instruments. Drums are made by stretching an animal hide over a bowl or open cylinder. 
People play drums by hitting the hide with a stick. Drums help keep the beat in a band or orchestra. Drums can be tuned to different tone levels. This is done by stretching or loosening the drum's hide covering. 
    Another family of musical instruments is the percussion group. Drums are often thought of as percussion. But true percussion instruments are made from a solid material that is shaken, struck, or scraped. Rattles, bells, and gongs are percussion instruments. A xylophone is a more complicated percussion instrument. It has keys that are struck with a hammer. Each key sounds a different pitch or tone level. 
   The number and range of musical instruments are amazing. The next time you hear - or play in - a band or orchestra, listen carefully to the richness and variety of sounds.

An Olympic medalist, five time World Amateur Boxing champion and Padma Bhushan recipient Mangte Chungneijang Mary Kom is an epitome of confidence, humility and dogged determination. Her grandmother named her Chungneijang which means prosperity but she decided to assume the name Mary because it was easier to pronounce.
In her childhood between attending school and playing all kinds of sports, Mary helped her parents in the fields. She was her fathers right hand, accompanying him wherever he found work as a farm hand. Life was tough because her family struggled to make ends meet and she always dreamed of living up to her name and supporting her family.
Although she loved all sport, the martial arts were her personal favourite.In 1998 when Manipuri boxer Dingko Singh won a gold medal at the Asian Games, Mary Kom decided to build a career in sports.
In the year 2000 when was adjudged best boxer at the state level sub-junior boxing championship, she realized that she was gifted and resolved to make a career in sport. Today the boxing champion and mother of two, who defied many a stereotype, is setting up her own boxing academy along with taking care of her family and training for the 2016 Olympics. When asked in an interview if there was anything she would like to say to the youth of the nation, she said The world today is full of distractions in almost every form and if you fail to notice them and overcome them you will end up nowhere or somewhere much less preferred.

Interviewer : What other qualities do you think made him an effective leader?
Maya Angelou : Intelligence, a very profound intelligence. Now, that does not always go handinhand with intellect. With Dr. King, it did. But I point out that intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time.
Dr. King was profoundly intelligent. That is to say, he was able to see, to examine, to analyze, to evaluate, to measure the climate of the times, the expediency of his calling, of his ministry. That's intelligence. Now intellect, of course, helped him to be able to explain what he saw with grace and eloquence and wonderful quotations, whether from Paul Laurence Dunbar or Longfellow. That was out of the virtue of his studies.

[passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follows:
[/passage-header]    'Families of musical instruments'
    Have you ever thought about how many ways there are to make musical sounds? You can make music with your own body. You can sing, clap, or snap your fingers. Musical instruments allow us to make music beyond what our bodies are capable of. Bands and orchestras are made up of families, or groups, of musical instruments. Each family of instruments adds something unique to the music. 
    Strings are one family of musical instruments. You are probably familiar with some of these instruments. A guitar has strings. Guitar players make music by plucking the strings with their fingers. A violin has strings too, but a violin player uses a bow to make music. Bowing an instrument means sliding or scraping a bow over the strings. A bow is a smooth tool that makes the strings vibrate and produce sound. 
    Wind instruments make up another musical family. Wind instruments produce sound by moving columns of air. You may know someone who plays a flute. The flute is a tube-shaped wind instrument. A flute player makes music by blowing air over a hole in the tube. 
    Have you ever seen a clarinet? It is a wind instrument too. Clarinet players blow on a reed in the mouthpiece. The reed vibrates and sets the air inside the clarinet tube in motion. Trumpets, trombones, and French horns are other wind instruments, but they don't have reeds. 
    Drums make up one more family of instruments. Drums are made by stretching an animal hide over a bowl or open cylinder. 
People play drums by hitting the hide with a stick. Drums help keep the beat in a band or orchestra. Drums can be tuned to different tone levels. This is done by stretching or loosening the drum's hide covering. 
    Another family of musical instruments is the percussion group. Drums are often thought of as percussion. But true percussion instruments are made from a solid material that is shaken, struck, or scraped. Rattles, bells, and gongs are percussion instruments. A xylophone is a more complicated percussion instrument. It has keys that are struck with a hammer. Each key sounds a different pitch or tone level. 
   The number and range of musical instruments are amazing. The next time you hear - or play in - a band or orchestra, listen carefully to the richness and variety of sounds.