Question : Comprehension:
Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.
The blowout of an Oil India Limited (OIL) gas well in Assam’s Tinsukia district last week is causing extensive damage to biodiversity and wildlife in the region, including the endangered hoolock gibbons and Gangetic dolphins.
Baghjan, where the gas well blowout occurred on 27 May, is close to the Dibru-Saikhowa National Park, the Maguri-Motapung wetlands, and the forest villages of Barekuri which are habitat to the hoolock gibbon. Uncontrollable gas flow is continuing from the gas well. “What we are seeing is complete horror. Condensed oil is leaking continuously. The Maguri-Motapung wetlands (an important bird and biodiversity area) are very badly affected. There is a thick layer of crude oil on the water. Fish are dying and some cattle that graze in the adjacent wetlands are also dead,” said Mridupaban Phukon, a student and wildlife activist.
“We have been informed by people in Barekuri villages that condensed oil coating leaves have started affecting the hoolock gibbon habitat. If not contained immediately the wetlands and national park will be devastated,” he said. Around 650 families have been evacuated from the affected areas and continue to be camped in three relief camps. “I visited the area on Sunday but it was barricaded. I could see the damage everywhere. Deadfish were floating and the vegetation was brown now. One Gangetic dolphin died soon after the leak. Usually, the Maguri jheel is rich with birdlife, but I could hardly spot any birds that day. I appeal for immediate help,” said Nabamita Ray, a doctor and wildlife enthusiast. Oil India’s crisis management team (CMT) members have started pumping water through the casing valve. Water is pumped continuously through the valve into the wellhead. Oil India has also contacted global experts to control the blowout. The water pumps are being installed in the nearby river (source of water) and pipeline-laying work is in progress. A blowout is the uncontrolled release of crude oil or natural gas from an oil well or gas well after pressure control systems have failed. Dibru-Saikhowa has recorded over 40 mammals, 500 species of birds, 104 fish species, 105 butterfly species and 680 types of plants. It harbours tigers, elephants, wild buffalos, leopards, hoolock gibbons, capped langurs, slow lorises, and Gangetic dolphins, besides critically endangered bird species such as the Bengal florican, white-winged duck, greater adjutant stork, white-rumped vulture, slender-billed vulture, and the very rare and endemic black-breasted parrotbill. All these are facing threats from the uncontrolled flow of oil.
Question:
The main focus of this report is on:

Option 1: the scene created by the gas well blowout

Option 2: the damage to biodiversity and wildlife that the blowout has caused

Option 3: what a gas well blowout is and how it occurs

Option 4: the measures being employed by the gas company to control the blow out

Question : Which of the following was known as an organisation of merchants in the inscriptions of the Pallavas?

Option 1: Nagaram

Option 2: Sangathana

Option 3: Ur

Option 4: Sabha

Question : Directions: In the following question a series is given, with one term missing. Choose the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series.
10, 18, 28, 40, ?

Option 1: 58

Option 2: 46

Option 3: 52

Option 4: 54

Question : Insert the missing number 3, 18, 12, 72, 66, 396, ?.

Option 1: 300

Option 2: 380

Option 3: 350

Option 4: 390

Question : Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.

Gullible

Option 1: Credulous

Option 2: Pliant

Option 3: Cynical

Option 4: Simple

Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in reported speech.
Harry said to me, “Don’t wear this expensive watch to school.”

Option 1: Harry told me to not wear this expensive watch to school.

Option 2: Harry told me that don’t wear that expensive watch to school.

Option 3: Harry told me that not to wear that expensive watch to school.

Option 4: Harry told me not to wear that expensive watch to school.

Question : Directions: In a certain code language, RAT is coded as 27 and ZEBRA is coded as 125. How will RABBIT be coded in that language?

Option 1: 236

Option 2: 224

Option 3: 212

Option 4: 216

Question :

Directions: Some statements are given followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III, and IV. You have to consider the statements to be true, even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. You have to decide which of the given conclusions, if any, follows from the given statements.
Statements:
All the teachers are actors.
Some actors are women.
Conclusions:
 I. All the teachers are women.
II. Some women are teachers.
III. Some women are actors.
IV. All the actors are teachers.

Option 1: Only Conclusion I follows

Option 2: Only Conclusions II and IV follow

Option 3: Only Conclusion III follows

Option 4: None of the Conclusions follows

Question : Who  among the following is credited with starting the work on plant tissue culture?

Option 1: F.C. Steward

Option 2: P. Maheshwari

Option 3: P.R White

Option 4: Haberlandt

Question : Given below are four sentences in jumbled order. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

A. He pulled out the letter that he had received from his brother.
B. Doctor Das looked a little upset.
C. He went to his desk and unlocked the drawer.
D. Then he laid it on the desk and pored over it.

Option 1: BCDA

Option 2: DACB

Option 3: ADBC

Option 4: CBDA