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Question : Comprehension:
Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.
Quarantine and self-isolation need not be monotonous and stifling. They can be the gateway to work, be it in the arts or the sciences, that define the history of the world. Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, John Milton and Lord Byron used much time to add to their formidable body of work in science and literature. It was not called lockdown in their time, but they spent long spells in isolation when medicine was not as developed as it is now.
The University of Cambridge, where all four were studied, delved into its archives to collate their activities during such periods of isolation centuries ago. Isaac Newton (Trinity College): Considered Trinity’s most accomplished alumni, he exemplified productivity during a pandemic. Like many in Cambridge during the Great Plague of 1655-56, he retreated to the countryside to escape the disease-ridden city and spent two extended periods at his family home in rural Lincolnshire. Newton thrived in isolation, and later described it as one of the most productive times in his life, finding the space to reflect on and develop his theories on optics, calculus, and the law of motion and gravity. It was during this time that he conducted his famous prism experiment. “He bored a hole through his window shutters to produce a single, thin beam of light to pass through two prisms, proving for the first time that prisms did not create colours, but merely separated colours that were already there,” the university’s researcher, Alisha Matthewson-Grand, wrote. “Indeed, Newton was so intellectually transformed by his period of isolation that later commentators have referred to his time away from Cambridge as his annus mirabilis, or his year of wonders.” Charles Darwin (Christ’s College): Darwin’s experience with isolation was not the result of a pandemic but his own chronic ill health. He suffered from a myriad of unexplained symptoms, including vertigo, vomiting, cramps, fatigue, anxiety and visual disturbances. He noted in his autobiography of 1876 that “few persons can have lived a more retired life than we [Darwin and his wife Emma] have done. Besides short visits to the houses of relations, and occasionally to the seaside or elsewhere, we have gone nowhere.” Darwin believed that periods of isolation and ill health helped his career. At home, he was free from the demands placed on other scientists (teaching, administrative work), and thus able to devote himself entirely to research; he wrote: “Ill-health, though it has annihilated several years of my life, has saved me from the distractions of society and amusement.” Lord Byron (Trinity College): In 1811, Lord Byron was forced to quarantine in Malta after returning from a cholera-ravaged Greece. He was furious at the prospect of spending 40 days in lockdown, a measure he considered to be draconian and unnecessary. While confined, he wrote ‘Farewell to Malta’, a satirical poem attacking the island for (among other things) “Its smoky towns and cloudy sky” and its “cursed street of stairs”. He references his quarantine explicitly in the first verse “Adieu, thou damned’st quarantine / That gave me fever, and the spleen!’. John Milton (Christ’s College): The author of ‘Paradise Lost’ spent some time away from Cambridge as a first-year undergraduate in 1626, when the town was hit by bubonic plague. He was home in London when he wrote Elegia Prima, his first Latin elegy. The work is an early example of his aptitude for verse composition, as well as his impressive flair for comedy.
Question:
Where did Milton spend his time of isolation?

Option 1: In Lincolnshire

Option 2: In London

Option 3: In Malta

Option 4: At Cambridge

Question : Parts of the following sentence have been given as options. Select the option that contains an error.
The government has been accused in not doing enough to combat climate change.

Option 1: climate change.

Option 2: accused in

Option 3: The government

Option 4: enough to combat

Question : Dileep purchases 90 articles for Rs. 13,230 and sells them at a loss equal to the selling price of 8 articles. What will be the selling price of one article?

Option 1: Rs. 120

Option 2: Rs. 135

Option 3: Rs. 130

Option 4: Rs. 125

Question : If 540 kg of grass would feed 100 cows for 9 days, then for how many days would 900 kg of grass feed 50 cows?

Option 1: 50 days

Option 2: 10 days

Option 3: 20 days

Option 4: 30 days

Question : The Indian National Congress was established when 72 delegates from all over the country met in Bombay in December________.

Option 1: 1890

Option 2: 1858

Option 3: 1885

Option 4: 1872

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., A can be represented by 00, 12, 23, etc., and P can be represented by 58, 69, 75, etc. Similarly, you have to identify the set for the word given in the question. PAST

Matrix I

Matrix II

Option 1: 75, 21, 14, 65

Option 2: 86, 12, 31, 76

Option 3: 58, 41, 12, 67

Option 4: 88, 77, 41, 67

Question : Directions: In the following question, some parts of the sentence have errors, and some are correct. Find out which part of the sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If a sentence is error-free, your answer is "No Error".

The weather (1)/ of the new place (2)/ did not suit Ravi. (3)/ No Error (4)

Option 1: 1

Option 2: 2

Option 3: 3

Option 4: 4

Question : One cup has juice and water in the ratio 5 : 2, while another cup of the same capacity has them in the ratio 7 : 4, respectively. If the contents of both the cups (when full) are poured into a vessel, then what will be the final ratio of water to juice in the vessel?

Option 1: 52 : 25

Option 2: 25 : 52

Option 3: 26 : 25

Option 4: 25 : 26

Question : Why does one get cramps after sudden physical activity?

Option 1: The build-up of hydrochloric acid in our muscles during sudden activity causes cramps.

Option 2: The pepsin enzyme releases chemicals that lead to cramps.

Option 3: The oxygen molecules break down.

Option 4: The build up of lactic acid in our muscles during sudden activity causes cramps.

Question : Directions: Which of the following numbers will replace the question mark (?) in the given series?
18, 20, 22, 27, 32, 39, ?

Option 1: 47

Option 2: 42

Option 3: 46

Option 4: 45