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[passage-header]Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follows:
[/passage-header]Great and marvelous indeed are the achievements of Science. It has broken down the barriers of time and distance. Traveling has become short, safe and comfortable. It has made contact and communication with the world easier and quicker by inventing telephones, telegraphs and the wireless. Agriculture is no longer at the mercy of nature. Yields have been multiplied with the help of mechanized farming and chemical fertilizers. Science has brought a revolution in the sphere of trade, commerce, industry and entertainment. It has relieved human suffering by discovering the secrets of health and disease.
We, thus, see that Science is a blessing, but it is not an unmixed blessing. No doubt, it has turned impossibility into possibility, imagination into reality. But the question is whether it has taught us how to walk on mother earth. It has brought forth the evils of industrialization. Machines have become the masters of man. Can we forget dirty slums, unequal distribution of wealth and large scale unemployment in the wake of industrialization? Tars have become more hideous than ever before, thanks to the invention of terrible engines of destruction by Science.

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Fill in the blank:
Science has _____________ human suffering.

A
reduced

B
kept constant

C
increased

D
added to

Solution

Option A: The answer is:
Science has reduced human suffering.
It's mentioned in the line, "It has relieved human suffering by discovering the secrets of health and disease."
By the term 'relieved', we mean that Science has lessened or reduced human suffering by discovering certain cures to disease and illness.
Hence option A is correct.
Options B, C and D are incorrect because the information in these options is not given in the passage.
Question 2
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Read the following passage carefully.

1. Caged behind thick glass, the most famous dancer in the world can easily be missed in the National Museum, Delhi. The Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro is that rare artefact that even school children are familiar with. Our school textbooks also communicate the wealth of our 5000 year heritage of art. You have to be alert to her existence there, amid terracotta animals to rediscover this bronze image.
2. Most of us have seen her only in photographs or sketches, therefore the impact of actually holding her is magnified a million times over. One discovers that the dancing girl has no feet. She is small, a little over 10 cm tall - the length of a human palmbut she surprises us with the power of great artthe ability to communicate across centuries.
3. A series of bangles-of shell or ivory or thin metal-clothe her left upper arm all the way down to her fingers. A necklace with three pendants bunched together and a few bangles above the elbow and wrist on the right hand display an almost modern art.
4. She speaks of the undaunted, ever hopeful human spirit. She reminds us that it is important to visit museums in our country to experience the impact that a work of art leaves on our senses, to find among all the riches one particular vision of beauty that speaks to us alone.

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On the basis of your reading of the above passage, answer the following question.
The Dancing girl belongs to

A
Mohenjo-daro

B
Greek culturee

C
Homo sapiens

D
Tibet

Solution

From first paragraph, line 2, we have: "The Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro is that rare artefact that even school children are familiar with."
This shows that it the dancing girl was from Mohejo-daro.
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[passage-header]Read the following conversation and answer the given question:[/passage-header]Neera: Hi, Amina! __(1)__
Amina: Well, __(2)__ I suppose. I mean, the starting time's great.

Neera: Why's that?
Amina: It doesn't start until noon, so I don't have to get up early, and I needn't set my alarm and all that.

Neera: Cool! But then, you have to work late, right?
Amina: Yeah, __(3)__. Also, we aren't allowed to leave till the last customer's gone, and sometimes that's around midnight!

Neera: __(4)__!
Amina: And we are supposed to speak really carefully to customers and say things like "Have a nice day now".

Neera: Yuck!
Amina: And we have to wear stupid hats!

Neera: __(5)__.
Amina: The worst thing is you don't get a moment's rest to sit down or anything.

Neera: Mmmmm... __(6)__
Amina: No, hopefully, I'll find something better, and I'll move on.

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Fill in blank no (6) with the most suitable phrase from the options given below.

A
Do you want anything to eat ?

B
Is it too early to leave ?

C
Is it too late for you to have a drink ?

D
Do you think you'll stay long ?

Solution

Amina's last reply is the clue to the answer. She says she will find something better and move on. So, the correct answer or rather Neera's question to Amina is: Option D) Do You think you'll stay long?
Question 4
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[passage-header]Read the following conversation and answer the given question:[/passage-header]Neera: Hi, Amina! __(1)__
Amina: Well, __(2)__ I suppose. I mean, the starting time's great.

Neera: Why's that?
Amina: It doesn't start until noon, so I don't have to get up early, and I needn't set my alarm and all that.

Neera: Cool! But then, you have to work late, right?
Amina: Yeah, __(3)__. Also, we aren't allowed to leave till the last customer's gone, and sometimes that's around midnight!

Neera: __(4)__!
Amina: And we are supposed to speak really carefully to customers and say things like "Have a nice day now".

Neera: Yuck!
Amina: And we have to wear stupid hats!

Neera: __(5)__.
Amina: The worst thing is you don't get a moment's rest to sit down or anything.

Neera: Mmmmm... __(6)__
Amina: No, hopefully, I'll find something better, and I'll move on.

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Fill in blank no (1) ______ with the most suitable phrase from the options given below.

A
Long time no see

B
How do you do?

C
How's your new flat mate?

D
How's the new job?

Solution

The key to this question is that when we read the conversation, we realize that the two people are talking about Amina's new job. Also, the response Amina gives suggests that she has been asked about her job. So, the answer to blank number (1) is option D) How's the new job?
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The very first time she sang professionally, playback singer Kavita Krishnamurty learnt a lesson she's never forgotten. It was 1970, and at 16, she'd been selected by composer Vijay S. Padukone to sing a 60-second Tamil jingle advertising a popular brand of baby food. Already on edge when she arrived at the recording studio, Kavita was further unnerved to find the legendary Geeta Dutt there, preparing to sing the same jingle in Hindi.
"I'd almost certainly have muffed my lines," Kavita says, "Had not Geeta Dutt done something wonderful. Sensing my nervousness, she smiled and holding my hand said, 'I've heard that you sing well. So don't be afraid. Do your best.'"
"Her words immediately put me at ease and my recording went without a hitch."
Subsequently, during Kavita's struggle to make it as a playback singer, many other - including Hemant Kumar and Manna Dey - provided encouragement and advice. "They all taught me that you shouldn't reach for success by trampling on other people."

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When Kavita Krishnamurty said that her first recording went without a hitch, she meant that

A
It went off smoothly

B
There were frequent interruptions.

C
There were some retakes

D
It went off as anticipated.

Solution

"Went without a hitch" is a phrase that means that there were no hurdles and everything went smoothly. Thus A is the answer.
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The very first time she sang professionally, playback singer Kavita Krishnamurty learnt a lesson she's never forgotten. It was 1970, and at 16, she'd been selected by composer Vijay S. Padukone to sing a 60-second Tamil jingle advertising a popular brand of baby food. Already on edge when she arrived at the recording studio, Kavita was further unnerved to find the legendary Geeta Dutt there, preparing to sing the same jingle in Hindi.
"I'd almost certainly have muffed my lines," Kavita says, "Had not Geeta Dutt done something wonderful. Sensing my nervousness, she smiled and holding my hand said, 'I've heard that you sing well. So don't be afraid. Do your best.'"
"Her words immediately put me at ease and my recording went without a hitch."
Subsequently, during Kavita's struggle to make it as a playback singer, many other - including Hemant Kumar and Manna Dey - provided encouragement and advice. "They all taught me that you shouldn't reach for success by trampling on other people."

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Through her strugggle Kavita Krishnamurty learnt

A
To do her best always

B
To be a good human being

C
To encourage young singers.

D
To fight her nervousness

Solution

Through her struggle, Kavita Krishnamurthy learned that one shouldn't reach for success by trampling on other people. In this context, choice B - to be a good human being- is the best answer.
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Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it:

Power and Possession have been central pursuits of modern civilisation for a long time. They blocked out or distorted other features of the western 'renaissance' (revival) which promised so much for humanity. What people have been and are still being taught to prize are money, success, control over the lives of others acquisition of more and more objects. Modern social, political and economic systems, whether capitalist, fascist or communist, reject in their working the basic principal that the free and creative enfoldment of every man, woman and child is the true measure of the worth of any society. Such enfoldment requires understanding and imagination, integrity and compassion, cooperation among people and harmony between the human species and the rest of the nature. Acquisitiveness and the pursuit of power have made the modern man an aggressor against everything that is non-human, an exploiter and oppressor of those who are poor, meek and unorganised, a pathological type which hates and distrusts the world and suffers from both acute loneliness and false pride. The need for a new renaissance is deeply felt by those sensitive and conscientious men and women who not only perceive the dimensions of the crisis of our age, but who also realise that only through conscious and cooperative human effort may this crisis be met and probably even overcome.

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Which of the following best describes the behaviour of modern man?

A
imaginative and sympathetic

B
cruel and greedy

C
conscientious and cooperative

D
perceptive and creative

Solution

Acquisitiveness and the pursuit of power have made the modern man an aggressor against everything that is non-human, an exploiter and oppressor of those who are poor, meek and unorganised.
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Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:
Orang-utans require less food than humans, pound-for-pound, lead author Herman Pontzer said. When they do eat, orang-utans nibble mostly on ripe fruit, along with smaller portions of leaves and seed. Even in captivity, this diet doesn't diminish as orang-utans get up and go. They wake up early after a long night's sleep, explained Pontzer, an assistant professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. Then they spend the day socializing, exploring their indoor or outdoor enclosures. They also regularly engage in games with researchers. According to a study, published in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, these activities of the orang-utans, taken together, add up to the same level of exercise performed by humans in physically demanding agricultural lifestyles. In the wild, orang-utans live in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra where food availability is highly variable and unpredictable, Pontzer added. Like fresh fruit from the garden, the pickings are often feast or famine. But the trade-off, he added, is that low energy throughout means less energy is available to do things like grow and reproduce. So orang-utans grow slowly and reproduce slowly, which is evolutionarily risky because an orang-utan might die before it passes on its genes. Human mothers can have a child every two to four years, but orang-utans in the wild only reproduce every seven to eight years. Orang-utans are highly endangered, with many lost due to human activities such as logging, mining, and the illegal pet trade. Pontzer hopes
the study will highlight how much information we will lose about our closest relatives and our own evolutionary history if we let them go extinct.

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Complete the sentence with the most appropriate answer.
Pontzer does not want the orang-utans to become extinct because ____________________.

A
They are our closest relatives

B
They are an endangered species

C
A lot of information about our evolution will be lost

D
He wishes to study them in the wild

Solution

The passage gives information about the orang-utans who grow and reproduce slowly which makes them evolutionarily risky because the orang-utan may die before they can pass on their genes. ''Pontzer hopes the study will highlight how much information we will lose about our closest relatives and our own evolutionary history if we let them go extinct.'' which means that Orang-utans are the human's closest relative and their extinction will cause the loss of a lot of information about our evolution.
So, the correct option is C).
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Read the following passage and answer the question given after it.

Designing toys for children is challenging yet stimulating. Considering the low attention span of today's kids, toys with higher play value are able to engage them longer. Young minds are also quite impressionable, while designing the toys one has to be conscious about ethics and values. So toy designer has to be conscious about ethics and values. The toy designed must also aid their cognitive, physical, emotional and social skills. But above all, fun is the primary objective of play, fun is what makes them come back for more; makes them learn and remember. Another crucial factor is eco-friendliness. Some of the best pro-environment design processes can actually be found in the Indian handicraft industry. One such example is the lathe-turned toy craft of Channapatna-- a town near Bangaluru. The age old craft uses wood and colours made completely from natural materials like turmeric, kumkum, indigo, etc. Creating modern designs bases on such conventional techniques opens up a new range of products that are unique, educational and organic.

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Toys are said to have a high play value when

A
they present challenges to designers and to children who play with them

B
they are costly but also have high quality

C
they are able to keep children's attention for long periods

D
they are used by a large number of childeren

Solution

The passage states that toys with higher play value are able to engage the student's longer, that is, keep their attention longer. Thus the required answer is C.
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[passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]Sailing is an Olympic sport today, but in Britain, in the past, seafaring was an important source of work and not just for sailors and fishermen. People all over Britain worked to make, equip and support the military, commercial, and fishing fleets. So, many people found work in construction and maintenance work related to the shipping industry. Ships needed to be supplied with sails, ropes, and other essentials; warships needed cannon and gunpowder; sailors and passengers needed food and these requirements kept people in employment throughout the year. This is not the case so much today, at least not so widely, but the coast of Britain is, to this day, dotted with hundreds of marinas - places where recreational boats are kept for people who enjoy sailing. Britain has many maritime museums but the most impressive is the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, which showcases the nation's rich nautical history. Further, British literature and art are full of evidence of the importance of seafaring in the country's history and culture; Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson and the novels of C. S. Foster and Patrick O Brian effectively capture the people's relationship with sailing.

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According to the passage, 'Treasure Island' describes ___________.

A
The artistic talent of Britain

B
Ships and boats

C
The coast of Britain

D
The British connection with the sea

Solution

The last sentence of the passage describes that the Treasure Island captures the people's i.e the British people's connection with sailing. So, the answer is option D.

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Question 1

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kept constant

increased

added to

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Question 2

Mohenjo-daro

Greek culturee

Homo sapiens

Tibet

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Question 3

Do you want anything to eat ?

Is it too early to leave ?

Is it too late for you to have a drink ?

Do you think you'll stay long ?

Solution

Question 4

Long time no see

How do you do?

How's your new flat mate?

How's the new job?

Solution

Question 5

It went off smoothly

There were frequent interruptions.

There were some retakes

It went off as anticipated.

Solution

Question 6

To do her best always

To be a good human being

To encourage young singers.

To fight her nervousness

Solution

Question 7

imaginative and sympathetic

cruel and greedy

conscientious and cooperative

perceptive and creative

Solution

Question 8

They are our closest relatives

They are an endangered species

A lot of information about our evolution will be lost

He wishes to study them in the wild

Solution

Question 9

they present challenges to designers and to children who play with them

they are costly but also have high quality

they are able to keep children's attention for long periods

they are used by a large number of childeren

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Question 10

The artistic talent of Britain

Ships and boats

The coast of Britain

The British connection with the sea

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