Question : Comprehension:
In the following passage some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each blank.

Finland is a country of vast green forests, beautiful Baltic islands, windswept Arctic mountains and (1) _________blue lakes. These pristine and picturesque landscapes (2) __________a habitat for many wild animals and birds including (3) ___________bears, wolves, eagles, cranes and swans, as well as (4) ___________world's rarest seals. Birdwatchers flock to Finland to find (5) _________that are hard to spot anywhere else in Europe. Keen wildlife photographers (6) ________come here to enjoy excursions and facilities that enable (7) _________to get spectacular shots of the amazing animals in their (8) _________settings. Some of the great places to preserve these (9)_________include Finland's forty national parks, which are open to (10) __________all year round.

Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank 9.

Option 1: creatures

Option 2: personalities

Option 3: souls

Option 4: mortals

Question : Directions: Manjot cycles X km towards the North and then turns left and cycles Y km to reach her shop. The shortest distance between the starting point and her shop is 5 km. What can be the value of X and Y in km?

Option 1: 3 km and 4 km

Option 2: 8 km and 4 km

Option 3: 3 km and 5 km

Option 4: 4 km and 6 km

Question : Exposure to sunlight synthesizes which of the following vitamins?

Option 1: E

Option 2: C

Option 3: K

Option 4: D

Question : Directions: In the following question, some parts of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If the sentence is free from error, select "No Error".

I have went through the write-up guidelines (1) / too but still want to clear on mail (2) / communication for topic confirmation. (3) / No Error (4)

Option 1: (1)

Option 2: (2)

Option 3: (3)

Option 4: (4)

Question : Which of the following common household products has "calcium hypochlorite" as its dominant chemical?

Option 1: Baking soda

Option 2: Detergent powder

Option 3: Vinegar

Option 4: Bleaching powder

Question : Select the correct passive voice for the given sentence.
The vendor is selling onions on a cart.

Option 1: Onions were being sold by the vendor on a cart.

Option 2: Onions are sold by the vendor on a cart.

Option 3: Onions are being sold by the vendor on a cart.

Option 4: Onions are selling by the vendor on a cart.

Question : Directions: Which number will replace the question mark (?) in the given series?
61, 73, 99, 141, 201, (?)

Option 1: 281

Option 2: 261

Option 3: 269

Option 4: 244

Question : Comprehension:
Read the passage and answer the questions.

A woman who rides the success wave as an underwater photographer, pilot, financial adviser, management consultant, pearl diver, bartender, bus driver, or police officer, is very often suddenly swung back looking for answers after she becomes a mother.
And there comes a phase when she has to choose between motherhood and a thriving career. The former takes precedence for many, as it becomes the purpose for the latter to exist.
To work or not to work: Hobson’s choice imposes a high cost on both individuals and society. As a result, many professionals reject motherhood entirely. Others delay childbearing for so long that they are forced into the arms of the booming fertility industry. Some choose not to work at all, representing a loss to collective investment in talent. But a choice must be made!
Conventionally, a mother is seen putting others before herself. She is known for slaying her own sphere bit by bit to build a new world for her child. Thereupon, motherhood and sacrifice get conjoined in such a way that both become inseparable.
What merits attention is to understand a woman’s struggle to answer the individual within her! Her circumstances post-delivery (over which she hardly has any control) conveniently rob her of the goalpost she fielded half her life, that is, her career. Neither money nor family can restore what is lost when she loses her career.
To map the paradigm of this loss-gain conundrum, let’s examine women in the empowered and non-empowered categories. The first lot have financial, ideological, and emotional resources to re-create a career. It is the latter that gets sandwiched between their call for motherhood and a slipping career.
Noticeably, education is the least responsible factor for their deplorable situation. Instead, it is the educated bunch who are more frustrated than their uneducated counterparts; the ones who had carefully worked on a skill and climbed up the success ladder, only to embrace identity crises.
It is important to close the vacuum of a lost career as soon as it appears. At risk is a woman’s individuality, her self-esteem, which constitutes the very purpose of her being. Otherwise, a long hiatus from work can consume even a well-minded woman and push her into depression.

Question:
What does the writer mean when he/she says: slaying her own sphere bit by bit.

Option 1: A woman is not being allowed to assert herself.

Option 2: A woman is not being able to balance work and home.

Option 3: A woman is sacrificing her individuality on becoming a mother.

Option 4: A woman is struggling to re-create her career after childbirth.

Question : What is the primary source of energy in an ecosystem?

Option 1: Moonlight

Option 2: Sunlight

Option 3: Oxidation in plants

Option 4: The heat released during respiration

Question : Comprehension:

Read the following passage and answer the questions.

For birds to survive, they must learn to live with and off humans, and those birds, like crows, sparrows, and mynahs, who do this to perfection, continue to thrive as our cities grow, whereas the purely wild birds, who depend on forests for life, are rapidly disappearing because forests are disappearing. If you have just a bit of garden and perhaps a guava tree, you will be visited by innumerable bulbuls, mynahs, tailor birds, parrots, etc. Or, if you own an old house, you will have to share it with pigeons and sparrows. And, if you have neither a garden nor a rooftop, you will still be visited by the crows.

Where man goes, the crow follows. He has learned to perfect the art of living off of humans. He will, I am sure, be the first bird on the moon, scavenging among the paper bags and cartons left behind by untidy astronauts. Crows favour the densest areas of the human population, and there must be one for every human. Many crows seem to have been humans in their previous lives; they possess all the cunning and sense of self preservation of man. At the same time, there are many humans who have obviously been crows, we haven't lost their thieving instincts.

Watch a crow sidling along the garden wall with an eye at the kitchen door and any attendant humans. He waits in the background till his chance comes, and then he pounces! I have even known a crow to make off with an egg from the breakfast table. The mynah, however, is more of a gentleman. He prefers fruit on the tree to scraps from the kitchen and visits the garden in expectation of handouts. He is quite handsome, too, with his bright orange bill. Although the blue jay is quite capable of making his living in the forest, he seems to show a preference for human haunts. He would rather perch on a telegraph wire because he finds it a better launching pad for his sudden rocket flights and aerial acrobatics!

Question:

Which of these birds has been called a ‘thief’ by the narrator?

Option 1: parrot

Option 2: crow

Option 3: mynah

Option 4: bulbul