Question : What was a major environmental concern associated with the Green Revolution in India?

Option 1: Air pollution from industrial emissions

Option 2: Deforestation for agricultural expansion

Option 3: Overuse of chemical fertilizers and pesticides

Option 4: Increased carbon footprint from transportation

Question : Comprehension:

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

The drainage systems of India are mainly controlled by the broad relief features of the subcontinent. Accordingly, the Indian rivers are divided into two major groups: the Himalayan rivers and the Peninsular rivers.
Apart from originating from the two major physiographic regions of India, the Himalayan and the Peninsular rivers are different from each other in many ways. Most of the Himalayan rivers are perennial. It means that they have water throughout the year. These rivers receive water from rain as well as from melted snow from the lofty mountains. The major Himalayan rivers are the Indus, the Ganga and the Brahmaputra. These rivers are long and are joined by many large and important tributaries. A river along with its tributaries may be called a river system. The two major Himalayan rivers, the Indus and the Brahmaputra originate from the north of the mountain ranges. They cut through the mountains making gorges in the upper course. The perennial Himalayan rivers have long courses from their source to the sea. They perform intensive erosional activity in their upper courses and carry huge loads of silt and sand with their swift current. In the middle and the lower courses, these rivers form meanders, oxbow lakes, levees, and many other depositional features in their floodplains as their speed slackens. They also have well-developed deltas.
A large number of the Peninsular rivers like the Godavari, Kaveri and Krishna are seasonal, as their flow is dependent on rainfall. During the dry season when it doesn’t rain, even the large rivers have reduced flow of water in their channels. The Peninsular rivers have shorter and shallower courses as compared to their Himalayan counterparts. However, some of them originate in the central highlands and flow towards the west. Most of the rivers of peninsular India originate in the Western Ghats and flow towards the Bay of Bengal.

Question:

Which of these is NOT a Himalayan river?

Option 1: Indus

Option 2: Godavari

Option 3: Ganga

Option 4: Brahmaputra

Question : Who were made the permanent members of the U. N. Security Council?

Option 1: One representative from each continent

Option 2: Five major powers of the Allied Forces in the Second World War

Option 3: Five members elected by the U.N. General Assembly at the intial Consititution

Option 4: funding members of the U.N.

Question : Which of the following is a major cause of water pollution?

Option 1: Afforestation

Option 2: Organic farming

Option 3: Industrial effluents

Option 4: Conservation practices

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.

When he died on 27 November 1953, Gladstone O'Neill was (1)______recognised as one of the major dramatists of the modern world. Four times a Pulitzer Prize-winner, he had also been (2)______the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature. His plays have been translated into most major languages and read by more people than those of (3)_____other playwright except W Shakespeare and maybe G Bernard Shaw. O'Neill was a puzzle to his friends - a genuinely shy, brooding, complicated man in whom (4)_____alternated with touching kindness. He was both, naive and worldly. One biographer found him "sentimental one instant, hard as nails the next." His widow, after 26 years with O'Neill, said, "To (5)_____his work you must understand the man, for the work and the man are one."

Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 3.

Option 1: none

Option 2: few

Option 3: any

Option 4: some

Question : Comprehension:
In the given passage, some words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
During the pandemic, remote working has kept the work going, across _____ (1) Almost every industry got shut down physically during the lockdowns, but the work-from-home model tried to ______ (2) the effect of the lockdown when it came to jobs. In the future also, many businesses across the globe, including the information technology industry, are _______ (3) continuing with the hybrid model. Remote working has replaced geography as a major hiring ________ (4), with 90 percent of senior executives expected to work from home. As a result, 76 percent of US organisations are more likely to _______ (5) outside the city or even state, according to a Talent Works poll of recruiting managers conducted across the US, quoted by an FE report.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 3.

Option 1: analysing

Option 2: examining

Option 3: considering

Option 4: observing

Question : Which of the following is not a major iron ore belt in India?

Option 1: Maharashtra-Goa belt

Option 2: Haryana-Rajasthan belt

Option 3: Odisha-Jharkhand belt

Option 4: Durg-Bastar-Chandrapur belt

Question : Which type of budget is primarily concerned with planning and allocating funds for long-term investments, such as infrastructure development or major equipment purchases?

Option 1: Operating budget

Option 2: Capital budget

Option 3: Cash budget

Option 4: Program budget

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.

The decision made by the goverment of India to purchase crude oil at a discounted rate from Russia,  when the Putin goverment is bombing civilians in Ukraine, is 1) __________________ by many. 2)________________ to the Narendra Modi administration’s request to not to politicise the issue, in the current scenario the decision is as much political as it is economic, however much we may wish it were not.

While the major countries like US, Europe , Japan and Australia have made no secret revelation that India should  join them in 3) _____________________ Putin’s war, as the goverment of 141 countries who voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolution did. Russia has intentionally offered the discount at the oil to show that India is among the ‘many’ countries that resist the Atlantic alliance’s attempt to 4) __________________ and punish Putin. On the other hand Xi’s China has suddenly discovered that Modi’s India is worth talking to: it will provide cover for the Xi government to not only 5) ________________ attention from its own support for Russia, but also to position itself as someone who is more willing to engage with the Atlantic alliance than India.

Choose the correct word to be used in the blank 4

Option 1:  isolate
 

Option 2: recapitulate
 

Option 3: jaded

Option 4: ramify

Question : What is a major challenge in urban-waste disposal? 

Option 1: Lack of public awareness

Option 2: High cost of recycling

Option 3: Insufficient landfill space

Option 4: Excessive waste reduction