Question : Comprehension:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Rajasthan's farmers have been banging plates and lighting fires these days. It is their desperate attempt to scare away the swarms of migratory locusts invading their fields and eating away crops. The pest attack has come as a double blow for farmers already reeling under the impact of the COVID lockdown.

Millions of locusts, covering 1-4 sq km of the skyline, have reached 10 of the state's 33 districts within three weeks of being first spotted on April 30. Last year, yellow locusts entered India from Pakistan in the second half of May. The attack had originated in Yemen, coming all the way to West Asia, Pakistan, and then India, creating havoc in 17 countries en route.

With the harvest nearly over in Rajasthan, the invading population of grasshoppers this May is feeding mainly on sprouting cotton crops sown last month, vegetables, and fodder. State officials, though, fear damage to the young millet and moong dal crops due in July and August if the locusts breed.

Flying in through the Pakistan border near Jaisalmer, the locust swarms have infiltrated as deep as Kishangarh in Ajmer district. Locusts can cover 200–250 km in a day if they get wind support. Presently, the dust storms sweeping parts of Rajasthan are aiding their flight. Officials said the Union Agriculture Ministry's Locusts Warning Organisation (LWO) is in the process of acquiring 60 vehicles with mounted insecticide sprayers from abroad by July. Ten such vehicles were purchased this January.

"Immature pink locusts are very active, which is why they have reached the interiors of Rajasthan [from Pakistan] so quickly," says K.L. Gurjar, deputy director, of LWO. Their metabolism slows down during winters, but in summers, they can fly from 4 am to 8 pm, covering long distances and consuming more crops along the way than mature locusts would. The LWO has put 10 insecticide-spraying vehicles on the job in Rajasthan. The Rajasthan government has provided rented tractors, on which insecticide sprayers are mounted, and also the manpower to man them. The centre-state joint operation has so far cleared a few hundred sq km of fields of the locusts. Preliminary estimates put the loss to crops at a few crore rupees.

State officials say there is an urgent need to contain the pink locusts before they start breeding in the next few weeks. Indiscriminate aerial spraying of insecticides is ill-advised, as this can damage crops as well as affect human settlements.

One of the strategies being considered now is to use fixed-wing aircraft for ultra-low volume spraying of chemicals. The state government may request such aerial sorties from the Air Force. Drones have limited capabilities as they can carry only about 20 litres of insecticide at a time, making them effective only over small areas.

Question:
It can be inferred from the passage that the present swarm of locusts consists of:

Option 1: yellow immature locusts

Option 2: yellow mature locusts

Option 3: pink mature locusts

Option 4: pink immature locusts

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.
National Educational Policy of India 2020 is built on the foundational (1)__________ of Equity, Access, Quality and Affordability. The policy is a (2) __________framework of India's education system from elementary to higher education. It also discusses the (3)____________and scope of vocational training. The objective is to (4)___________India in a vibrant knowledge society and make the country a global knowledge superpower by providing a more (5)_________flexible and multidisciplinary education to its youth.

Question:

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 4.

Option 1: renovate

Option 2: transgress

Option 3: transform

Option 4: redo

Question : Who among the following was the first chief guest to attend the Republic Day in 1950?

Option 1: Sukarno

Option 2: Josip Broz Tito

Option 3: Kwame Nkrumah

Option 4: Gamal Abdel Nasser

Question : Directions: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G are seven friends having different heights. A is taller than C but shorter than B. C is taller than F but shorter than A. B is taller than A but shorter than 2 persons. D is taller than B. E is not the tallest and G is the shortest. Who is the tallest?

Option 1: B

Option 2: C

Option 3: D

Option 4: A

Question : Directions: Kripal starts driving from his home and drives 37 km towards the south. From there, he turns left and drives 31 km. Then he turns right and drives 27 km. Then he turns left and drives a certain distance of Y km. After that, he turns left and drives 57 km. Now, he finally turns left and drives 58 km to reach a bank which is exactly 7 km south of his home. Find the value of Y in Km.

Option 1: 22

Option 2: 27

Option 3: 55

Option 4: 36

Question : Comprehension:

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.

I was a chef in the Taj banquet kitchen when the gunshots started that night. Initially, the news was that it was an internal gang war in a neighbourhood nearby and that it would die down soon. It was only at about 10.30 or 11 p.m. that we understood the magnitude of what was going on. We were seven chefs in the kitchen that night, not one of whom left the Taj despite knowing all exit points. By then, the shootout had happened at the Wasabi restaurant, and all those who had survived were pouring into the banquet hall and kitchen where we were working.
As soon as we heard about the shootout, we prepared sandwiches for our surviving guests, which we then handed out. After this, we entered the corridor to escort our guests out of the hotel through the back entrance. We had successfully helped a few guests when I saw the left profile of a terrorist in a red cap who began shooting. I was standing next to a refrigerator when my head chef and his assistant chef both got shot. There was chaos, panic, and fear as our guests started running everywhere, but by then they had opened fire in all directions.
All of a sudden, everything went quiet, and that silence was the worst. I tried looking around for survivors, but it was just me. I stayed there for a few hours until I realised that no help would be coming anytime soon. I looked at the refrigerator where I'd been only a while ago, and it had 3 bullet holes in it. I'd narrowly escaped death, but it was horrifying to see that my guests and colleagues hadn't been as lucky. I won't look back on that day as just a terrorist attack, but as a day when many brave individuals looked death in the eye to help others.
 

Question:-

Which of the following did the hotel staff do?
a) Served snacks to the guests
b) Escorted guests out of the hotel
c) Escorted guests to their rooms
d) Looked around for survivors
e) Ran here and there in fear and panic
f) Ran out of the hotel to save themselves

Option 1: a, c and e

Option 2: c, e and f

Option 3: b, d and f

Option 4: a, b and d

Question : Who among the following was among the founders of the Jugantor Party?

Option 1: Rash Behari Bose

Option 2: Surendranath Banerjee

Option 3: Bipin Chandra Pal

Option 4: Aurobindo Ghosh

Question : Directions: A word is represented by only one set of numbers as given in any one of the alternatives. The sets of numbers given in the alternatives are represented by two classes of alphabets as in the two matrices, given below. The columns and rows of Matrix (I) are numbered from 0 to 4 and that of Matrix (II) are numbered from 5 to 9. A letter from these matrices can be represented first by its row and next by its column, e.g. Y can be represented by 00, 22, etc and U can be represented by 42, 59, etc. Similarly, you have to identify the set for the word PARK.

Option 1: 58, 40, 86, 34

Option 2: 76, 55, 89, 23

Option 3: 23, 78, 34, 02

Option 4: 95, 40, 77, 65

Question : How many hydrogen atoms are there in a molecule of methane?

Option 1: 2

Option 2: 6

Option 3: 4

Option 4: 3

Question : Directions: In a code language, he is waiting is written as 269, she is ready is written as 915, and he and she is written as 271. What will be the code for the word and in this language?

Option 1: 9

Option 2: 2

Option 3: 7

Option 4: 1