Question : Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If no substitution is required, select 'No substitution'.
I've got a lot of homeworks this weekend.

Option 1: a lot of homework

Option 2: No substitution

Option 3: a lots of homework

Option 4: much homework

Question : A person invested a total of Rs. 7,900 in three different schemes of simple interest at 3%, 5%, and 8% per annum. At the end of one year, he had the same interest in all three schemes. What is the money (in rupees) invested at 3%?

Option 1: 2900

Option 2: 3500

Option 3: 4000

Option 4: 5600

Question : Comprehension:

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.

You go up a dark, rickety stairwell of a building on a crowded street in Calcutta. You enter a small room. The centre of the room is empty but the corners are stacked with bedrolls, utensils and water bottles. Musical instruments, drums, cymbals and gongs are piled in a corner. Today, the room is filled with the laughter of men and women in colourful attire. Among the happy chorus of congratulations and laughter, the bride Chumki Pal and the groom Sandeep can be seen smiling. They are both blind, as are most of the people surrounding them. Pal is wearing a bright turquoise blue sari. “I know it’s blue because people have told me but I can’t imagine how it looks. But believe me, when I dream, I dream only in colours,” she says. Their romance blossomed when they met as members of Blind Opera, the only one of its kind in the country as well as in Asia.

The 36 spirited members of Blind Opera demonstrate that physical disability is not an obstacle. They enact plays by Rabindranath Tagore, considered challenging even by veteran theatre groups. Blind Opera was launched in 1996 by four theatre aficionados, who took it as a challenge to get together the talents of these visually impaired people. The challenge to present the cast on stage is immense since space management is a problem. To solve this, the directors use ropes to separate the stage and the wings. When the actors step on the rope they know that it is the entrance to the stage. The members cannot see, but they can smell, hear and touch – three elements inherent to any theatre. At Blind Opera, they “believe that the blind can see. That is, they see in their own way, if not in our way, with the help of these abilities.”

For the visually impaired, theatre is the medium for the expression of their creative urges. They respond instinctively; they cannot copy anyone else because they cannot see. Their body language tells the story and hence it is very spontaneous. The members have earned kudos from Calcutta audiences. For the members of the troupe, discovering the language of the body is in a way also a journey of the persona. Coming from diverse backgrounds but bound together by the same disability, they have found an outlet for their creativity through the plays. They do not feel isolated anymore because they can relate to their fellow performers. There is also a greater purpose behind it: to use theatre to build a community and mainstream the huge number of disabled living in isolation. Together they can be a force to demand better facilities in public life. Blind children should enter the mainstream from the beginning. The big dream of the group is to establish a drama school following the ideal of Tagore’s Shantiniketan, offering a platform for creative expression to all those who are economically and socially forced to stay in the periphery. Like Chumki Pal, they all dream in colour.

Question:

Which of the following statements contradicts the writer’s view?

Option 1: Blind children should enter the mainstream from the beginning.

Option 2: The blind dream in colour despite their disability.

Option 3: As a united community, the disabled can demand better facilities.

Option 4: The actors of Blind Opera imitate others easily.

Question : Directions: Three statements are given, followed by three conclusions numbered I, II, and III. Assuming the statements to be true, even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts, decide which of the conclusions logically follow(s) from the statements.
Statements:
All red is pink.
All white is pink.
All pink is orange.
Conclusions:
I. All white is orange.
II. All orange is red.
III. Some oranges are white.

Option 1: Only conclusions I and III follow

Option 2: Only conclusions I and II follow

Option 3: All conclusions follow

Option 4: Only conclusions II and III follow

Question : Directions: A paper is folded and cut as shown below. How will it appear when unfolded?

Option 1:

Option 2:

Option 3:

Option 4:

Question : A sells an article to B making a profit of $\frac{1}{5}$th of his outlay. B sells it to C, gaining 20%. If C sells it for Rs. 600 and incurs a loss of $\frac{1}{6}$th of his outlay, the cost price of the article for A is:

Option 1: Rs. 600

Option 2: Rs. 500

Option 3: Rs. 720

Option 4: Rs. 800

Question : Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

One who mediates in a deal or complex situation.

Option 1: Equaliser

Option 2: Solicitor

Option 3: Pacifier

Option 4: Negotiator

Question : The first session of the All India Depressed Classes Congress was held at __________ in 1930.

Option 1: Nagpur

Option 2: Surat

Option 3: Delhi

Option 4: Kanpur

Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.

He likes people to flatter him.

Option 1: He likes to be flattered by people.

Option 2: He likes to have been flattered by people.

Option 3: He likes people to be flattered by him.

Option 4: He liked to be flattered by people.

Question : Directions: If A × B means that A is the father of B, A + B means that A is the mother of B, and A ÷ B means that A is the brother of B, then which of the following expressions shows that Q is the son of P?

Option 1: Q + P × R

Option 2: P + Q × R

Option 3: R × Q + P

Option 4: P + Q + R