Question : Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
On the afternoon of her fortieth birthday, I called a friend to wish her well. I asked about her plans for the rest of the day and learned that a celebration had already taken place. In the morning, my friend, her two sisters and her husband had risen high into the Kentucky sky in a hot-air balloon. 'What was it like?' I asked. "Well, I don't know if I can explain it." she said. "I was so focused on the moment when it was actually happening."
What I learned from my friend that morning is that sometimes, to be in the moment, you must surrender to it completely. That's not to say you won't remember it later, though you may forfeit the chance to put the moment into words. And although I couldn't say exactly what my pal experienced that morning, I heard the thrill and awe in her voice.

To truly be present, one must live inside the moment and experience it for its own sake. If you live outside the moment - observing and explaining - you're no longer absorbing and feeling. The moment breaks apart and eventually disappears. Think of a movie. Sometimes it's impossible to explain what you've seen. On another level, though, one you can't necessarily pinpoint, you know that once you begin dissecting your experience, you take away from it as well.

Question:
Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
 

Option 1: To truly be present, one must live inside the moment and experience it for others sake.
 

Option 2: To truly be present, one must live outside the moment and experience it for others' sake.
 

Option 3: To truly be present, one must live inside the moment and experience it for his/her own sake.
 

Option 4: To truly be present, one must live inside the moment and experience it.

Question : Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
Plato is the earliest important educational thinker, and education is an essential element in 'The Republic' (his most important work on philosophy and political theory, written around 360 B.C.). In it, he advocates some rather extreme methods: removing children from their mothers' care and raising them as wards of the state, and differentiating children suitable to the various castes, the highest receiving the most education, so that they could act as guardians of the city and care for the less able. He believed that education should be holistic, including facts, skills, physical discipline, music, and art. Plato believed that talent and intelligence are not distributed genetically and thus can be found in children born to all classes, although his proposed system of selective public education for an educated minority of the population does not really follow a democratic model.

Aristotle considered human nature, habit, and reason to be equally important forces to be cultivated in education, the ultimate aim of which should be to produce good and virtuous citizens. He proposed that teachers lead their students systematically, and that repetition be used as a key tool to develop good habits, unlike Socrates' emphasis on questioning his listeners to bring out their own ideas. He emphasized the balancing of the theoretical and practical aspects of subjects taught, among which he explicitly mentions reading, writing, mathematics, music, physical education, literature, history, and a wide range of sciences, as well as play, which he also considered important.

Question:
Aristotle believed that virtuous citizens could be produced by cultivating:

Option 1: art and music

Option 2: mathematics and science

Option 3: theoretical aspects of education

Option 4: habit and reason

Question : It facilitaies determination of standard time need to perform a job. Which technique of scientific management  is being highlighted in the given statement?
 

Option 1: Time study

Option 2: Motion study

Option 3: Fatigue study

Option 4: Method study

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.

The Crosses, the village (1) ______ Vasili Andreevich lived, consisted of six houses. As soon as they had passed the blacksmith’s hut (2) ______ last in the village, they realised that the wind was much stronger than they had thought. The road could hardly be seen. The tracks left by the sledge-runners were immediately (3) ______ by snow, and the road was only (4) ______ by the fact that it was higher than the rest of the ground. There was a swirl of snow over the fields, and the line where the sky and earth met could not be (5) ______.

Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 4.

Option 1: anguished

Option 2: distinguished

Option 3: crushed

Option 4: extinguished

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

Intially it was 1) ___________________ down by the outbreak of pandemic, and now the Russian invasion of Ukraine is becoming a threat to 2) ___________________ the 2024 completion deadline of Nal Se Jal, a flagship scheme of the Modi government to provide 3) ___________________ drinking water to all the rural households across the country.

This flagship scheme involves creating water supply 4) ___________________, such as laying water pipelines to provide functional tap connections to beneficiary households, alongside 5) ___________________ existing water supply systems.

Choose the correct word to be used in blank 5.

Option 1:  proceeding
 

Option 2: upgrading
 

Option 3: compelling
 

Option 4: completing

Question : Comprehension:

Read the following passage and answer the questions.

Soapy moved restlessly on his seat in Madison Square. There are certain signs to show that winter is coming. Birds begin to fly south. People buy new warm coats. Soapy felt restless in the park. When you see these signs, you know winter is near. A dead leaf fell at Soapy’s feet. That was a special sign for him that winter was almost there. It was time for all who lived in Madison Square to prepare. Soapy had to find some way to take care of himself during the cold weather. His hopes for the winter were not very high. He was not thinking of sailing away on a ship. He was not thinking of the warm southern skies. Three months in the prison on Blackwell Island was what he wanted. Three months of food every day and a bed every night, three months safe from the cold north wind and safe from cops. This is what Soapy wanted most in the world.

For years, Blackwell Island had been his winter home. Richer New Yorkers made their plans to go to Florida or to the shore of the Mediterranean Sea each winter. Soapy made his small plans for going to the island. Although there were places in the city where he could go and ask for food and a bed and he could move from one building to another, he preferred Blackwell Island. Soapy’s spirit was proud. If he went to any of these places, there were certain things he had to do. In one way or the other, he would have to pay for what they gave him. They would not ask him for money but they would make him wash himself well and answer questions. They would want to know everything about his life. In prison, a gentleman’s life was still his own life.

Question:
Why didn’t Soapy want to ask for food and shelter in his city?

Option 1: He wanted a change of place.

Option 2: People in his city were cruel.

Option 3: He had high hopes for winter.

Option 4: He would have to answer questions about his life.

Question : What significant change occurred in Russia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union?

Option 1: It became a communist state.

Option 2: It adopted a democratic form of government.

Option 3: It remained a part of the Soviet Union.

Option 4: It reverted to a monarchy.

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.
South Korea is the most cosmetically (1)______ country on Earth. Beauty editors estimate that it is because of the government’s heavy investment (2)______ industry. It is ahead of its competitors, and its citizens (3)_____ twice as much on skincare products as consumers in the United States, the UK, and France. Korean shoppers are (4)______ the world’s most discerning. Eight out of 10 Korean women in their 20s and 30s use an app that (5)_____ like a cosmetics-specific to debate the merits of various common ingredients.

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

Option 1: of the

Option 2: by the

Option 3: in the

Option 4: from the