Question : Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the question of where and when the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic ever, originated is one of the biggest mysteries in human history. After all, the Black Death was the first wave of the second plague pandemic of the 14th to early 19th centuries. It killed some 50-60% of the population in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa and an unaccountable number of people in Central Asia. Different proposals, based on competing theories, have been put forward. But in 2017, I came across some records describing an intriguing medieval cemetery in Kara-Djigach, Chüy Valley, northern Kyrgyzstan, which I suspected may hold the key. As part of a multidisciplinary team co-led by Maria Spyrou at the University of Tubingen, we have now investigated several specimens from individuals buried at that site – and come up with an answer. The idea that the Black Death originated in the east – territories overlapping, roughly speaking, Central Asia, Mongolia and China – dates back to the contemporaries of the pandemic in Europe and the Islamic world. The modern, academic Chinese origin theory dates back to at least 1756-8 and a publication about the history of Central Asia by French scholar Joseph de Guignes.
How does the passage describe the Black Death?

Option 1: The first wave of the second plague pandemic

Option 2: The worst specimen of human created tragedy

Option 3: The specimen of human evolution and its evidence

Option 4: The initiator of all the future pandemics

Question : There are certain words missing in the passage given below. The options given contain an answer that will fit in those given blanks. Choose the correct word to be used to make the sentence coherent and grammatically correct.

When we gaze at the sky on a clear and dark night  the stars appears to twinkle. The concept is so well 1. ______________________ that it’s the 2. ______________________ of  the most famous kid's song of all time.
But have you ever wondered what’s the 3. ______________________ behind this twinkling sight? What is the reason why stars twinkle?
It turns out, “twinkle, twinkle, little star” is a bit of a 4. ______________________. The correct answer to reason why stars twinkle is that they actually don’t. The twinkling we that we see is not related to the stars. Rather, it’s a result of how we see them from our 5. ______________________ on Earth. In reality stars are so far away from earth that we see them as a tiny point of light in the sky.

Q. Choose the correct word to be used in blank 5

Option 1:  perspective
 

Option 2: postulate

Option 3: epoch

Option 4: disheartening

Question : In the following passage, some blanks are given, and against each blank four alternative words are suggested. Choose the correct alternative to complete the passage in a meaningful way.

We know that ________________ (1) untreated waste from the industries and sewage which goes into the rivers will pollute them. But still the  industries and the local bodies do it anyway. We know our refutable thirst for coal or minerals like gold is ________________ (2) entire hills, contributing to the loss of biodiversity and affecting the people living working in this area and living there. Governments and corporations mine them anyway. There’s a word for such sustained, ________________ (3) actions that we perform despite knowing fully well their massive and widespread ecological and environmental fallouts: ecocide. It is, literally, ‘the ________________ (4) of the environment’.
Ecocide is the temr used for the actions that result in the intentional, conscious destruction of the natural environment with consequences for human, animal and plant life. That’s the ________________ (5) in which biologist Arthur Galston used the term for the first time in 1970, at the Conference on War and Responsibility in Washington, D.C. He pointed out the US’s use of Agent Orange – a herbicide used to ________________ (6) forest during the Vietnam War – an action of ecocide. Galston was the first to associate the willful destruction of nature with genocide, which is ________________ (7) as an international crime.

Q.Choose the correct word to be used in blank 7

Option 1: Recognised
 

Option 2: Blighted
 

Option 3: Grovelling

Option 4: Deliberate

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

When the sun began to set, the boys reluctantly deciding to going home.

Option 1: decide to going home

Option 2: No substitution needed

Option 3: deciding to go home

Option 4: decided to go home

Question : The Supreme Court of India acts as a Federal Court When It deals with

Option 1: Civil cases

Option 2: Inter -State Disputes

Option 3: Appeals from lower courts

Option 4: Election Petition

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.
National Educational Policy of India 2020 is built on the foundational (1)__________ of Equity, Access, Quality and Affordability. The policy is a (2) __________framework of India's education system from elementary to higher education. It also discusses the (3)____________and scope of vocational training. The objective is to (4)___________India in a vibrant knowledge society and make the country a global knowledge superpower by providing a more (5)_________flexible and multidisciplinary education to its youth.

Question:

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

Option 1: inclusive

Option 2: comprehensive

Option 3: absolute

Option 4: exclusionary

Question : Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.

A. Fort Hare was more than that: it was a beacon for African scholars from all over Southern Central and Eastern Africa.
B. Until 1960, the University College of Fort Hare, in the municipality of Alice, about twenty miles due east from Healdtown, was the only residential centre of higher education for blacks in South Africa.
C. For young black South Africans like myself, it was Oxford and Cambridge, Harvard and Yale, all rolled into one.
D. The regent was anxious for me to attend Fort Hare and I was gratified to be accepted there. I felt that I was being groomed for success in the world.

Option 1: BACD

Option 2: BCAD

Option 3: CABD

Option 4: BDAC

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

I am certain Ashok has finished his work by tomorrow.

Option 1: would have finish

Option 2: No substitution required

Option 3: will have finished

Option 4: had finished

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 number.

The working of the stomach was (1) _____ by a strange accident. In 1822, a man named Alexis St. Martin was (2) _____ hit by a shotgun. The bullet had seriously (3) _____ the chest wall and made a hole in (4)_____ stomach. He was brought to an American army (5) _____ William Beaumont. The doctor saved the patient but he (6) ______ not close the hole properly. Beaumont took it as a (7) ______ opportunity to see the inside of the stomach (8) ______ the hole. He made some wonderful observations. Beaumont (9) ______ that the stomach was churning food. Its wall secreted a fluid (10) ______ could digest the food. He also observed that the end of the stomach opens into the intestine only after the digestion of the food inside the stomach is completed.

Question:

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank No. 4.

Option 1: her

Option 2: its

Option 3: his

Option 4: him

Question : To improve living conditions in rural settlements, it is important to focus on:

Option 1: Increasing urbanization rates

Option 2: Reducing agricultural dependency

Option 3: Enhancing healthcare access

Option 4: Promoting industrial relocation