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Question : Which of the following is not a renewable resourse ?

Option 1: Thorium

Option 2: Geothermal heat

Option 3: Tidal power

Option 4: Radiant energy

Question : Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
A form of government in which power is held by the nobility

Option 1: Democracy

Option 2: Aristocracy

Option 3: Republic

Option 4: Nobility

Question : ‘SVANidhi se Samriddhi’ programme launched in 2022 is associated with the Ministry of __________.

Option 1: Finance

Option 2: Education

Option 3: Defence

Option 4: Housing and Urban Affairs

Question : The length and breadth of a cuboidal store are in the ratio 2 : 1 and its height is 3.5 metres. If the area of its four walls (including doors) is 210 m², its volume is ____.

Option 1: 679 m³

Option 2: 700 m³

Option 3: 567 m³

Option 4: 1050 m³

Question : The table gives the number of students in each class and the percentage of students in the class who like Hockey, Tennis, Chess, and Golf.

How many students are in all the given classes like Hockey?

Option 1: 596

Option 2: 608

Option 3: 740

Option 4: 614

Question : Directions: In the following question, a sentence is given with a blank that is to be filled in with an appropriate word. Four alternatives are suggested; choose the correct alternative out of them as your answer.

No ______ than fifteen boys failed in a class of forty.

Option 1: little

Option 2: less

Option 3: few

Option 4: fewer

Question : _______ is a disease which is transmitted by the Aedes mosquito, which lays eggs in water-logged places and multiplies over time.

Option 1: Diarrhoea

Option 2: Elephantiasis

Option 3: Dengue

Option 4: Malaria

Question : 15 men take 20 days to complete a job, working 8 hours a day. The number of hours a day that 20 men should take to complete the job in 12 days.

Option 1: 5 hours

Option 2: 10 hours

Option 3: 15 hours

Option 4: 18 hours

Question : Directions: A square sheet of paper is folded along the dotted line successively along the directions shown and is then punched in the end. How would the paper look when unfolded?

Option 1:

Option 2:

Option 3:

Option 4:

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