Question : Comprehension:
Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.
Quarantine and self-isolation need not be monotonous and stifling. They can be the gateway to work, be it in the arts or the sciences, that define the history of the world. Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, John Milton and Lord Byron used much time to add to their formidable body of work in science and literature. It was not called lockdown in their time, but they spent long spells in isolation when medicine was not as developed as it is now.
The University of Cambridge, where all four were studied, delved into its archives to collate their activities during such periods of isolation centuries ago. Isaac Newton (Trinity College): Considered Trinity’s most accomplished alumni, he exemplified productivity during a pandemic. Like many in Cambridge during the Great Plague of 1655-56, he retreated to the countryside to escape the disease-ridden city and spent two extended periods at his family home in rural Lincolnshire. Newton thrived in isolation, and later described it as one of the most productive times in his life, finding the space to reflect on and develop his theories on optics, calculus, and the law of motion and gravity. It was during this time that he conducted his famous prism experiment. “He bored a hole through his window shutters to produce a single, thin beam of light to pass through two prisms, proving for the first time that prisms did not create colours, but merely separated colours that were already there,” the university’s researcher, Alisha Matthewson-Grand, wrote. “Indeed, Newton was so intellectually transformed by his period of isolation that later commentators have referred to his time away from Cambridge as his annus mirabilis, or his year of wonders.” Charles Darwin (Christ’s College): Darwin’s experience with isolation was not the result of a pandemic but his own chronic ill health. He suffered from a myriad of unexplained symptoms, including vertigo, vomiting, cramps, fatigue, anxiety and visual disturbances. He noted in his autobiography of 1876 that “few persons can have lived a more retired life than we [Darwin and his wife Emma] have done. Besides short visits to the houses of relations, and occasionally to the seaside or elsewhere, we have gone nowhere.” Darwin believed that periods of isolation and ill health helped his career. At home, he was free from the demands placed on other scientists (teaching, administrative work), and thus able to devote himself entirely to research; he wrote: “Ill-health, though it has annihilated several years of my life, has saved me from the distractions of society and amusement.” Lord Byron (Trinity College): In 1811, Lord Byron was forced to quarantine in Malta after returning from a cholera-ravaged Greece. He was furious at the prospect of spending 40 days in lockdown, a measure he considered to be draconian and unnecessary. While confined, he wrote ‘Farewell to Malta’, a satirical poem attacking the island for (among other things) “Its smoky towns and cloudy sky” and its “cursed street of stairs”. He references his quarantine explicitly in the first verse “Adieu, thou damnedest quarantine / That gave me fever, and the spleen!’. John Milton (Christ’s College): The author of ‘Paradise Lost’ spent some time away from Cambridge as a first-year undergraduate in 1626, when the town was hit by bubonic plague. He was home in London when he wrote Elegia Prima, his first Latin elegy. The work is an early example of his aptitude for verse composition, as well as his impressive flair for comedy.
Question:
After reading this passage it can be said that it is:

Option 1: a newspaper article

Option 2: an encyclopaedic entry

Option 3: a news report

Option 4: a short story

Question : If $\frac{a}{b}+\frac{b}{a}=1$, then the value of $a^{3}+b^{3}$ will be:

Option 1: 1

Option 2: 0

Option 3: –1

Option 4: 2

Question : The 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. A certain aim will infuse one’s life with new meaning.
B. At some point, an aimless person’s goals can be shattered and remain unfulfilled.
C. In life, it is critical to have a workable objective or goal.
D. A man who is aimless will never achieve success in life.

Option 1: DCAB

Option 2: BCDA

Option 3: ADCB

Option 4: DBCA

Question : Which ecologist is famous for studying plant life in the Indiana Dunes in 1896?

Option 1: Robert MacArthur

Option 2: G. Evelyn Hutchinson

Option 3: Henry Chandler Cowles

Option 4: Aldo Leopold

Question : Directions: In the following question, you have to identify the correct response from the given premises stated according to the following symbols.
If ÷ stands for subtraction, – stands for addition, × stands for division, and + stands for multiplication, then which one of the following equations is correct?

Option 1: 35 ÷ 4 – 25 × 5 + 5 = 28

Option 2: 35 ÷ 4 – 25 × 5 + 5 = 61

Option 3: 35 ÷ 4 – 25 × 5 + 5 = 41

Option 4: 35 ÷ 4 – 25 × 5 + 5 = 56

Question : In which of the following Vedas was the Dasarajna war (the war of ten kings) mentioned?

Option 1: Yajurveda

Option 2: Samaveda

Option 3: Rigveda

Option 4: Atharvaveda

Question : If $(a+\frac{1}{a})^{2}=3$, then the value of $(a^{6}-\frac{1}{a^{6}})$ will be:

Option 1: 1

Option 2: 3

Option 3: 0

Option 4: 2

Question : Directions: A series is given with one term missing. Select the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series.
NDRF, NZJT, NVBH, NRTV, ?

Option 1: NJRM

Option 2: NTQC

Option 3: NNLJ

Option 4: NIRQ

Question : The compound interest earned in two years at 15% per annum is Rs. 20,640. What is the sum invested (in Rs.)?

Option 1: 64000

Option 2: 60000

Option 3: 56000

Option 4: 52000

Question : Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
At cross purposes.

Option 1: Developing and amplifying ideas given.

Option 2: Finalising ideas and plans.

Option 3: Blindly following each other's ideas.

Option 4: Disagreeing with each other's ideas.