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 4.

Option 1: facillitated
 

Option 2:  infrastructure
 

Option 3: legislature
 

Option 4:
gesture

Question : Direction: In the following question,one statement is given followed by two Conclusions I and II.  You have to consider the statement to be true, even if it seems to be at variance from commonly known facts. You are to decide which of the given conclusions can be definitely be drawn from the given statement. 

Statement : Every school should promote partnerships that will increase parental involvement and participation for promoting the growth of children.

Conclusions :

I. For the growth of the children , parents should ne involved in various school activities.

II. Involvement of parents in school activities has no influence on the growth of the children.

Option 1: Both I and II follow

Option 2: Only I follow.

Option 3: Only II follows.

Option 4: Neither I nor II follows.

Question : The Bandung Conference of 1955 was significant in the Cold War context because it:  
 

Option 1: Led to the creation of NATO  
 

Option 2: Marked the beginning of the Non-Aligned Movement  
 

Option 3: Ended the Korean War  

Option 4: Initiated the SALT negotiations

Question : Comprehension:

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.

I was a chef in the Taj banquet kitchen when the gunshots started that night. Initially, the news was that it was an internal gang war in a neighbourhood nearby and that it would die down soon. It was only at about 10.30 or 11 p.m. that we understood the magnitude of what was going on. We were seven chefs in the kitchen that night, not one of whom left the Taj despite knowing all exit points. By then, the shootout had happened at the Wasabi restaurant, and all those who had survived were pouring into the banquet hall and kitchen where we were working.
As soon as we heard about the shootout, we prepared sandwiches for our surviving guests, which we then handed out. After this, we entered the corridor to escort our guests out of the hotel through the back entrance. We had successfully helped a few guests when I saw the left profile of a terrorist in a red cap who began shooting. I was standing next to a refrigerator when my head chef and his assistant chef both got shot. There was chaos, panic, and fear as our guests started running everywhere, but by then they had opened fire in all directions.
All of a sudden, everything went quiet, and that silence was the worst. I tried looking around for survivors, but it was just me. I stayed there for a few hours until I realised that no help would be coming anytime soon. I looked at the refrigerator where I'd been only a while ago, and it had 3 bullet holes in it. I'd narrowly escaped death, but it was horrifying to see that my guests and colleagues hadn't been as lucky. I won't look back on that day as just a terrorist attack, but as a day when many brave individuals looked death in the eye to help others.
 

Question:-

The shootout first started in:

Option 1: the banquet hall

Option 2: the kitchen

Option 3: the corridor near the exit

Option 4: Wasabi restaurant

Question : Select the word that is similar in meaning (SYNONYM) to the word given below
Efficacy

Option 1: Impotence

Option 2: Efficiency

Option 3: Ineptness

Option 4: Futility

Question : Statement 1: The Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana provides credit support to small entrepreneurs.

Statement 2: It aims to promote skill development programs for unemployed youth.

Option 1: Both statements are true.
 

Option 2: Statement 1 is true, but statement 2 is false.
 

Option 3: Statement 2 is true, but statement 1 is false.

Option 4: Both statements are false.

Question : What was the strategic significance of Lucknow during the Revolt of 1857 ?

Option 1: It was the capital of the East India Company

Option 2: It was a major center of trade and commerce

Option 3: It was a key military and administrative center

Option 4: It was the birthplace of the revolt

Question :  

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

Meanwhile in technical ________________ (1) the “Cloud” may be called as the combination of computing resources over a network, popularly, “Cloud” has come to mark and encompass the complete range of sructures that make online activity possible, from facebook to netflix to Google Drive. Like a fluffly ________________ (2) moving across a wide and clear blue sky, not forming a particular shape or form, the Cloud of the digital is elusive, its internal working seems complex to the public, an example of what MIT cybernetician Norbert Weiner once called a “black box.” But like the clouds above us, however shapelss or ________________ (3) they may seem to be, are in fact made of matter, the Cloud of the digital is also perpetually material.

To get at the matter of the Cloud we must ________________ (4) the coils of coaxial cables, fiber optic tubes, cellular towers, air conditioners, power distribution units, transformers, water pipes, computer servers, and more.  We must be aware of its  material flow of electricity, water, air, heat, metals, minerals, and all the earth elements that ________________ (5) our digital lives. By this we can say that cloud is not only material but is also an ecologicak force. As it continues to ________________ (6), its impact on the environment is also increasing, even as entire workforce from engineers to technicians, and executives behind its formation aspire to balance profitability with sustainability.

Nowhere is this ________________ (7) more visible than in the walls of the infrastructures where the content of the Cloud lives: the factory-libraries where data is stored and computational power is pooled to keep our cloud applications ________________ (8).

Q. Choose the correct alternative for blank 4

Option 1: Divulge
 

Option 2: Beleaguer

Option 3:  Unravel
 

Option 4: Defrayed

Question : Camel is a desert animal, that can live without water for many days, because:

Option 1: it  needs less water

Option 2: water is formed in the body due to oxidation of fat

Option 3: it has the water sac in the walls of the lumen of stomach

Option 4: All of the above

Question : Select the most appropriate option that can substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence.
Ms. Suma was a bit apprehensive about doing so much in just one day, but it was all plain sailing.

Option 1: boring

Option 2: very easy

Option 3: mentally and physically exhausting

Option 4: risky