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.

Challenges are (1)___________ that knock on our door. It may sound difficult to (2)__________ the obstacles in our career but challenges are rewarding. If there were no challenges there would have been no (3)__________ on this planet. Every challenge poses an opportunity for those who like to put their (4)__________ to the fullest utilisation. Knowledge and (5)__________ is the key to overcome challenges.

Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 3.

Option 1: science

Option 2: invention

Option 3: scientists

Option 4: requirement

Question : What is the minimum number of members required to be present in any one of the two Houses of Parliament for its functioning?

Option 1: One fifth of total members

Option 2: One sixth of total members

Option 3: One seventh of total members

Option 4: One tenth of total members

Question : Directions: In the following question, correct the equation by interchanging any two numbers.
5 + 3 ÷ 6 × 9 – 2 = 21

Option 1: 5 and 9

Option 2: 3 and 6

Option 3: 6 and 9

Option 4: 5 and 3

Question : Comprehension:

Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.

The excitement of bird watchers on spotting a particular species for the very first time is unparalleled. With eyes shining and pride bursting, they exclaim, “I had a life today”, or “It was a lifer for me”. For the longest time, I couldn’t fathom what all the fuss was about. I mean, at some point in their lives, even a crow or mynah would have been a lifer — seen for the very first time. So, here, I’ve done a bit of jugaad with the term and defined it as a bird that you see maybe (but not necessarily) for the first time, but which has made a lasting, life-changing impact on you. Then I recalled some of my own “lifers”.

Number 1 is the little coppersmith barbet. The first bird I saw through brand new, big and powerful binoculars — and it was solely responsible for my getting interested in birds. The fellow looked like a tubby little clown with hiccups and that just blew me away.

I will never forget the first time I saw grey hornbills aeons ago: over sullen grey skies in the Borivali National Park (now called Sanjay Gandhi National Park) — squealing as they flew high up across the sky. They looked as if they had just left Jurassic Park. Or, for that matter, their larger, more glamorous, cousins — Great pied hornbills. Tramping through a streambed in Kalagarh (near Corbett), we suddenly heard this rasping, whooshing, sound. Up there, in the clear blue, were six-seven huge black-and-white birds with colossal yellow beaks flying in tandem across the clear blue sky, their wings making a rasping sound.

Say “paradise flycatcher” and a birder’s eyes will begin to glint: “Where? When? Will it be there now?” are questions that will be shot out like machine-gun bullets. The first time I saw a full-grown milk-white-and-glossy-black male, with its glamorous 18-inch streamer tail, was at the Sultanpur National Park in Haryana. But I remember better the flycatchers, that made me run around in a tea garden in Palampur, teasingly whistling at me from one end to the other. The nesting pair in Naukuchiatal was more accommodating except that I had to stand kneedeep in the hotel’s garbage dump to get a good view of them flitting to and fro the gully nearby. To compensate, one actually flew nearly down to my feet to snatch up a blue bottle I had missed.

Of course, there have been rarities: the highlight of the regular Bharatpur (the Keoladeo National Park) visits was the darshan of VIP Siberian cranes. Then they stopped coming, which was the first indication of their slow extinction — even if it was just “local” to our area. The gloriously uppity Great Indian bustards in the Karera Sanctuary (Madhya Pradesh) were another unforgettable sighting. The sheer disdain with which they flounced away from our howling, jolting jeep and took to their wings was a lesson in being put in your place. Now, not only does the sanctuary not exist anymore but those magnificent muscular birds are crashing to total extinction.

Question:

According to the passage which sanctuary does NOT exist anymore?

Option 1: Keoladeo National Park, Bharatpur

Option 2: Sultanpur National Park, Haryana

Option 3: Sanjay Gandhi National Park

Option 4: Karera Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh

Question : Select the most appropriate synonym of the given word.
AUTHENTIC

Option 1: incredible

Option 2: genuine

Option 3: dubious

Option 4: counterfeit

Question : Which state among the following started the Hornbill festival to encourage interaction among the tribes and to promote the cultural heritage of the state?

Option 1: Chhattisgarh

Option 2: West Bengal

Option 3: Assam

Option 4: Nagaland

Question : The perimeter of a right triangle is 60 cm and its hypotenuse is 26 cm. What is the area (in cm²) of the triangle?

Option 1: 60

Option 2: 96

Option 3: 90

Option 4: 120

Question : Directions: Select the option that is related to the third letter cluster in the same way as the second letter cluster is related to the first letter cluster.
JEALOUSY : LAYSEJUO : : FUSEWIRE : ?

Option 1: EEFIRSUW

Option 2: ESERUFIW

Option 3: ESUFERIW

Option 4: REWISEFU

Question : Directions: In each of the following questions, a piece of paper is folded and cut as shown below in the question figures. From the given answer figures, indicate how it will appear when opened.

Option 1:

Option 2:

Option 3:

Option 4:

Question : The song 'Jana-Gana-Mana' composed by Rabindra Nath Tagore was first published in January 1912 under the title of:

Option 1: Jay He

Option 2: Rashtra Jagriti

Option 3: Bharat Vidhata

Option 4: Mathrubhumi