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    [passage-header]Read the passage and accordingly, fill in the blank:[/passage-header]For Abid Surti, Sunday is no day of rest. He is busy going door to door volunteering with an assistant and a plumber. They are in an apartment building in Mumbai's densely populated suburb filled with high-rise buildings. He rings doorbells and asks residents the same question, 'Any leaky taps? We are providing a free service.' Surti is a multifaceted 79-year-old man. A national award-winning author, he has written some 80 books-novels, plays, and collection of short stories and poems. He is also an artist and a cartoonist. In 2007, Surti started Drop Dead Foundation, a water conservation NGO that caters to the buildings in Mira Road, fixing leaky plumbing for free. With water shortages and the prospects of taps running dry in Mumbai, Surti's work is vital. 'Massive' is how he describes water wastage in Mumbai. 'In poor families, they can't afford to pay a plumber but in most middle-class families, the problem is one of sheer indifference. 'Indeed it was the apathy of a friend that first spurred Surti into action. While visiting a friend's house, Surti saw a leaking tap and asked why it wasn't fixed, his friend casually dismissed the query, saying it was hard to get a plumber 'for something so trivial.'

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    Surti's primary mission is to ________. 
    Solution

    The correct answer for the question asked is Option B.

    The passage talks about the National award winning author, Abid Surti and his efforts towards ensuring one of the major problems that Mumbai, as well as the world in a macro aspect is facing right now: Water wastage. The reason, why he does this and how far reaching his efforts are, forms the crux of the passage.

    Option B, speaks of checking water wastage, which is clear from his efforts of going from door to door, to check whether there are any cases of loose pipes. This is an initiative towards ensuring less water wastage.

    The other options A, C and D are not in accordance with what Mr. Surti actually aims to do, but are only branches of what his mission actually is, hence eliminating them as answers.

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    [passage-header]Read the following passage and answer the question given after it:[/passage-header]
    The loudest public food fight right now is about GMOs or genetically modified organisms. Scientists add genes to corn, soya beans, and other plants, usually to protect the crops from insects of herbicides. Those who support this say that the genetic help makes crops easier to grow and cheaper. But many consumers and those who keep an eye on food-safety worry that GMOs pose an unnatural threat to our health and the environment. These opponents say the GMOs have been linked to depression, allergies and even cancer. Unless we have been eating food labelled 100 percent organic - which means that is must be GMO-free - we probably have GMOs in our body system already!

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    The "______loudest public food fight ________" suggests that.
    Solution

    The correct answer to complete the sentence is Option D.

    The passage mainly speaks about GMO(Genetically Modified Organisms), and its effects if consumed by humans. While one section of the people say that genetic techniques are helping the food industry, the others, specially the food safety people, say otherwise.

    The first sentence itself speaks about the unrest that is waging an argument between two sections, i.e., the people who support GMO and the others who don’t. Of the many public outbursts regarding food safety and other norms, the one including GMO is the latest, which is mentioned in Option D

    The other options, A, B and C, describe public, scientists and GMO’s competition and fights which is not described in the passage.

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    [passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Years ago, people woke up to find sparrows chirping in their backyard. A noisy lot, they took grains right from your hand if you had befriended them. They got over their fear easily and demanded food or water with their loud chirping if you had forgotten to give them their regular share of food. Tiny pink beaks opened to morsels of food or worms sometimes regurgitated by the parent birds. We had a splendid time watching the bird family bond and as children sat gazing at them as they picked up grain or splashed about us in muddy water. Many people have written poems and lyrics on sparrows, their noisy chirps, their friendly nature, and their spotty feathers. Sparrows were a menace on the fields. There were guards with slings and stones to chase them away as they ate grain from standing crops. Now people are trying to woo them back to nature.

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    The author calls sparrow a friendly bird because ______. 
    Solution
    We had a splendid time. . . . their spotty feathers, these lines imply that sparrows have always been around humans and humans have enjoyed gazing at them and have even written poems about them. Therefore, the correct answer is option D, 'they have been among humans always'. The other three options are a subset of option D.
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    [passage-header]Read the passage and answer the question that follow:[/passage-header]
    In towns and cities of North and West India, kite-flying is a craze. People mostly fly their kites from the roofs of their houses. At some places, kites are flown from open grounds. Being a fun sport, kite-flying is enjoyed throughout the year. However, there are some special occasions on which every enthusiast involves himself in Patang Baazi. These occasions include Makar Sankranti, Basant Panchami, Raksha Bandhan and Independence Day.
    Basant Panchami is one of the biggest festivals in North India. It heralds both the approach of the harvest and the end of winter. This spring festival is celebrated by flying kites, mostly of yellow color which represents the ripening of mustard in the fields. From morning onwards, the roof of almost every house becomes full of young and old people, keeping their kites afloat. By early afternoon, the sky becomes peppered with kites of different colors and sizes. However, the fun of Basant Panchami does not preclude intense competition: the unique North Indian phenomenon of cutting each other's kite lines continues. Each time a kite's lifeline is severed, a cheer "bo-kata" is sent up by the victor.

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    What does the yellow color of the kite represent?
    Solution

    The correct answer is Option B.

    It is clearly described in the passage that ‘…mainly of yellow color which represents the ripening of mustard in the fields’. Thus, option B is the correct answer.

    Option A is incorrect because Basant Panchami is celebrated to mark the end of winter season.

    Option C is incorrect because Basant Panchami is celebrated to mark the harvest period.

    Option D is incorrect because all the given options are not correct.

    Hence option B is the correct answer.

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    Choose the word which best fills the blank from the four options given.

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    I had a vague __________ that the lady originally belonged to Scotland.
    Solution
    Vague notion is a right choice. Imagination is in itself vague (unclear). While expressions cannot be vague. Theory is out of place for the context. Thoughts can be vague or unclear or unstable.
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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.

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    What is effect of biotechnology towards the Indian market?
    Solution
    Indian biotechnology industry has crossed US$ 3 billion mark which is 23% growth of 2010.
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    Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it:
    We started looking on the ground for blood, hair or a drag mark that would lead us to the deer killed by the tiger. We had proceeded a hundred yards, examining every foot of the ground, and going dead slow, when Mothi, just as I turned my head to look at him, started backwards, screaming as he did so. Then he whipped round and ran for dear life, beating the air with his hands as if warding off a swarm of bees and continuing to scream as he ran. The sudden and piercing scream of a human being in a jungle, where a moment before all has been silent is terrifying to hear. Instinctively I knew what had happened. With his eyes fixed on the ground, looking for the blood or hair on the kill, Mothi had failed to see where he was going and had walked towards the tiger.

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    Mothi and the narrator were scanning the ground because _____________.
    Solution
    They started looking on the ground for blood, hair or a drag mark that would lead us to the deer killed by the tiger.
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    The theory of natural selection was put forth by Charles Darwin in his book 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection', co-authored by Alfred Russel Wallace. According to Darwin, nature has its own ways of selecting the best from the available species for continuation of life. The mechanism of natural selection works as follows :
    Individuals of a species produce more offspring than necessary to replace themselves. This results in competition and struggle for existence among the individuals. Within the species itself there is variation that results in minor differences between the individuals.
    Thus in the struggle for existence only the ones with the variations best adapted to their environment survive. In this manner nature ensures survival of the fittest.

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    The book 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection' was published in the year.
    Solution
    The book 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection' was published in the year 1859,
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    Many poor farmers had been compelled to take up indigo cultivation when the British settlers were given the right to purcahse and cultivate land in India.Many whites, therefore, either acquired loans to poor farmers or pressurised them to forsake the farming of food grains and other cash crops for indigo cultivation. Indigo export to to Europe was lucrative for the British settlers who held a monopoly for this business.Within a few years,most of the fertile lands had undergone forcible indigo cultivation,resulting in a famine situation in Bengal.When the farmers declined to cultivate indigo,they were tortured,jailed and even killed.

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    British settlers bought land in Bengal in order to ______________.
    Solution
    Many whites, therefore, either acquired loans to poor farmers or pressurised them to forsake the farming of food grains and other cash crops for indigo cultivation.
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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.

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    What is Biospectrum?
    Solution
    It is the monthly journal of association of Biotechnology Led Enterprises (ABLE).
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