Question : Select the correct meaning of the idiom in bold and italics.

Look, the devil is beating his wife. Do you think we'll see a rainbow?

Option 1: One who presents a counter argument

Option 2: If you have nothing to do, you are likely to do some mischief

Option 3: The sun is shining while it rains

Option 4: When someone comes in unexpectedly while being talked about

Question : Comprehension:

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 blank.

Teenage is a (1)______ of life that everyone goes through between childhood and adulthood. During this time, teenagers go through many changes, both physically and emotionally. They may experience mood swings, have difficulty expressing their feelings, and sometimes (2)_______ impulsively. Teenagers are also trying to figure out their place in the world and may face pressure from peers, parents, and society to (3)_______ to certain expectations. It is important for teenagers to have a support system that allows them to explore their interests, develop their own identities, and make healthy choices. Despite the challenges that come with being a teenager, it can also be an exciting and transformative time. Teenagers have the (4)_______ to learn new skills, make lifelong friends, and explore new experiences that can shape their future. It is important for parents, educators, and other adults to provide teenagers with guidance, support, and resources that can help them (5)______ the challenges of adolescence.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 5.

Option 1: correlate

Option 2: propagate

Option 3: conclude

Option 4: reduce

Question : Comprehension:

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

We must understand that people can process very little information presented orally. So, it is (1)______, particularly for a teacher, to realise that the students have sometimes listened to three or four teachers (2)______ you. So, the teacher must have props like notes, handouts, and slides that will make the learning material (3)_____ alive for the students and stay that way with them. A visual aid, a little movement or colour will get the students' attention. Another important thing to (4) is that long, complicated sentences spoken fast are simply too difficult for students to understand. It is, therefore, (5) to use short sentences that make sense to them instantly.

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 2.

Option 1: behind

Option 2: beside

Option 3: before

Option 4: after

Question : Comprehension:

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 blank.

The modern pizza was originally (1)___________in Naples, Italy but the word pizza is Greek in (2).___________ derived from the Greek word pktos meaning solid or clotted. The ancient (3).___________ covered their bread with oils, herbs and cheese. The first major (4).___________ that led to flatbread pizza was the use of tomato as a topping. It was common for the poor of the area around Naples to add (5).___________ to their yeast-based flat bread, and so the pizza began.

Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No.1.

Option 1: assumed

Option 2: pervaded

Option 3: invented

Option 4: arcaded

Question : Comprehension:

Read the following passage and answer the questions.

This year, I celebrated twenty-five years with a Seeing Eye dog. When I came to "The Seeing Eye' in 1983, I had no idea how much my canine partner would do for me. I can well remember walking down a country road independently, with a light step and joy in my heart, knowing that Novel- my first Seeing Eye dog- would keep me safe.

Since that glorious beginning, my dogs have seen me through two university degrees while living in four different cities in Canada and the United States. These competent and loving guides have shown me amazing skills - keeping me safe from traffic, fallen trees, new places and a host of unseen dangers. I have acquired self-confidence and a faith that anything is possible with my dog at my side. Over the years, my dogs have always been a source of pride and pleasure for me, and I brag about them to my family and friends.

Today, the way young Rambo manoeuvres me through the rush-hour traffic is wonderful. But it is all those little things like finding a table at a restaurant, finding empty cubicles at the physical therapy clinic where I work, that can mean so much more. Rambo is my sixth guide who arrived in June 2008 after Ruskin left me. He has already established himself in my heart. He is guiding me through another chapter in my life. I wish to thank all my friends at 'The Seeing Eye' for the support they have offered me over the years. I also thank them for being like family, most importantly, being there to train these furry soul-mates so well!

Question:

Who was the narrator’s first guide dog?

Option 1: Novel

Option 2: Rambo

Option 3: Ruskin

Option 4: Seeing Eye

Question : Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select 'No substitution required'.

The news that the examination were been cancelled upset all our plans.

Option 1: was been

Option 2: have been

Option 3: had been

Option 4: No substitution required

Question : Comprehension:
In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Nuclear power for civil use is well (1)_______ in India. Since building the two small boiling water reactors (2)________ Tarapur in the 1960s, its civil nuclear strategy (3)_______ directed towards complete independence in the nuclear fuel cycle, necessarily (4)_________ it is excluded (5)_________ the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 2.

Option 1: at

Option 2: from

Option 3: on

Option 4: of

Question : Read the passage and answer the following questions.
All great thinkers live and move on a high plane of thought. It is only there they can breathe freely. it is only in contact with spirits like themselves they can live harmoniously and attain that serenity which comes from ideal companionship. The studies of all great thinkers must range along the highest altitudes of human thoughts' have always thought that the strongest argument in favor of the Baconian theory was, that no man, however indubitable his genius, could have written the plays and sonnets that have come down to us under Shakespeare's own name who had not the liberal education of Bacon. The magnificent ideals that have ever haunted of though the human mind and given us our highest proofs of future immortality by reason of the impossibility of their fulfillment here are splintered into atoms by contact with life's realities. Hence Comes our sublime discontent's habitual mediation on the vast problems that underline human life and are knit into human destinies-thoughts of immortality, of the littleness to the mere man, of the greatness of man' soul, of the splendors of the universe that are invisible to the ordinary traffickers in the street, as the vastness of St. Peter's is to the spider that weaves her web in a corner of the dome-these things do not fir men to understand the arrange humanity is easy to understand, therefore, Why such thinkers fly to the solitude of their own thoughts, or he the silent companionship of the immortals and if they care to present their verse to the world that these views take a somber and melancholy setting from "the pale cast of thought" in which they were engendered.

Question:

What is referred as Baconian liberal education?
 

Option 1: An imaginary and ideal fantasy.

Option 2: Theory of acing human beings rue over their fate.

Option 3: Involvement with the complexities of the day to day life.

Option 4: Equivalent to ancient ideas of sublimity

Question : Given below is a short passage followed by some items based on the passage. First, read the passage and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author only.

More than eight months after the national lockdown was announced in late March, urban India is learning to live with the Covid-19 pandemic. In fact, indicating a positive outlook for the future, many survey respondents in a recent survey say they plan to return to pre-lockdown levels of shopping, personal grooming, going to cinemas and socializing as pandemic fears continue to recede.
The survey findings highlight that the suppression of consumer demand because of fears of job losses and salary cuts could be coming to an end. Increasingly, urban Indians are showing increased confidence about the future of the economy. This could be an indicator of the possible 'pent-up demand' that several economists have been talking about - a demand that could be unleashed once a vaccine is developed and distributed, or when there are signs of the pandemic's spread reducing to negligible levels or vanishing totally.

Around 65 per cent of respondents said they had settled into new routines, or that they saw signs of the situation improving, or they had come to terms with the pandemic and were moving on with their lives. And since the survey was conducted before the news of the successful trials of the Pfizer vaccine for the coronavirus was announced, it is likely that the consumers are now even more positive in their outlook about the future.

Question:
What, according to the passage, is the reason behind the decline in consumer demands?
 

Option 1: Dearth of vaccine till date

Option 2: Professional insecurity
 

Option 3: The intention of saving up money.

Option 4: Careful  attitude of the general public

Question : How would India's permanent membership in the UN Security Council impact its relationship with neighboring countries?

Option 1: It would lead to increased tensions

Option 2: It would have no impact

Option 3: It would enhance its leadership role in the region

Option 4: It would reduce its involvement in regional affairs