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Question : Which on of the following is not a true snake?

Option 1: Glass snake

Option 2: Sea snake

Option 3: Tree snake

Option 4: Blind snake

Question : Comprehension:

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

The first time that Agha Shahid Ali spoke to me about his approaching death was on 25 April 2001. The conversation began routinely. I had telephoned to remind him that we had been invited to a friend’s house for lunch. Although he had been under treatment for cancer for some fourteen months, Shahid was still on his feet and perfectly lucid, except for occasional lapses of memory. I heard him thumbing through his engagement book and then suddenly he said: ‘Oh dear. I can’t see a thing.’ There was a brief pause and then he added: ‘I hope this doesn’t mean that I’m dying...’ I did not know how to respond: his voice was completely at odds with the content of what he had just said, light to the point of jocularity. I mumbled something innocuous: ‘No Shahid — of course not. You’ll be fine.’ He cut me short. In a tone of voice that was at once quizzical and direct, he said: ‘When it happens I hope you’ll write something about me.’

I was shocked into silence and a long moment passed before I could bring myself to say the things that people say on such occasions. ‘Shahid you’ll be fine; you have to be strong...’From the window of my study, I could see a corner of the building in which he lived, some eight blocks away. It was just a few months since he moved there: he had been living a few miles away, in Manhattan, when he had a sudden blackout in February 2000. After tests revealed that he had a malignant brain tumour, he decided to move to Brooklyn, to be close to his youngest sister, Samantha, who teaches at the Pratt Institute—a few blocks away from the street where I live. Shahid ignored my reassurances. He began to laugh and it was then that I realised that he was dead serious. I understood that he was entrusting me with a quite specific charge: he wanted me to remember him not through the spoken recitatives of memory and friendship, but through the written word.

He knew that my instincts would have led me to search for reasons to avoid writing about his death: I would have told myself that I was not a poet; that our friendship was of recent date; that there were many others who knew him much better and would be writing from greater understanding and knowledge. All this Shahid had guessed and he had decided to shut off those routes while there was still time. ‘You must write about me.’ Finally, I said: ‘Shahid, I will: I’ll do the best I can.’

Question:

Shahid’s voice was full of ‘jocularity’. This means it was:

Option 1: humorous

Option 2: bitter

Option 3: melodious

Option 4: sorrowful

Question : Bhajan Sopori, a famous musician, is associated with which musical instrument?

Option 1: Sarod

Option 2: Shehnai

Option 3: Santoor

Option 4: Sitar

Question : Given below are four sentences, three of which, are jumbled. Pick the option that gives the correct order.
A. It was the first instrument to combine a reed (as in a clarinet) with a brass bell (as in a trumpet).
B. Without its unique sound, we would never have heard jazz, or any of the music styles that followed in its footsteps.
C. While some musical instruments have been around for centuries, the saxophone is a relatively recent invention.
D. The first saxophone was patented by Antoine-Joseph Sax in Paris in 1846.

Option 1: CDAB

Option 2: CADB

Option 3: CDBA

Option 4: CABD

Question : Directions: In a certain code language, DISPUTE is written as SID16ETU. How will FEATURE be written in that language?

Option 1: AEF20ERU

Option 2: AEF20UER

Option 3: AEF02ERU

Option 4: AEF20REU

Question : In an election between three candidates, Arjun, Bhaskar, and Saral contested for a post. Arjun got 50% more votes than Saral and Saral got 2% fewer votes than Bhaskar. The difference between the votes won by Bhaskar and Saral is 1296. What is the half of the difference between the votes won by Arjun and Bhaskar?

Option 1: 3888

Option 2: 13988

Option 3: 7766

Option 4: 15228

Question : Directions: In the following question below are given some statements followed by some conclusions. Taking the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts, read all conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements.
Statements:
I. Some cups are plates.
II. No cup is a pencil.
Conclusions:
I. No plate is a pencil.
II. Some plates are pencils.
III. Some pencils are cups.

Option 1: Only I

Option 2: Only II

Option 3: Both I and II

Option 4: No conclusion follows

Question : Comprehension:

Read the following passage and answer the question.

The narrator of this story is a 12-year-old girl who has gone to London with her mother to visit the dentist. The girl has a tooth filled, and then she and her mother go to a café afterwards. When it’s time to go home, they discover that it’s pouring rain and they have no umbrella. They decide to get a taxi. While they’re waiting for a cab, an old gentleman sheltering under an umbrella approaches them. He asks for a favour. The girl’s mother is very distrustful of strange men. The old man explains that he has forgotten his wallet and would like to sell them his umbrella in return for a taxi fare back to his home. He explains that it’s a very nice silk umbrella worth twenty pounds, but his legs are weak, and he simply must take a taxi home. The mother likes the sound of the deal, but the little girl worries that they’re taking advantage of the old man. The mother offers to simply give him the cab fare, but he insists that they take the umbrella. The transaction is made, and everyone is happy. As the mother proudly explains the importance of correctly judging people, the daughter notices that the old man has quickly crossed the street and is hurrying away. “He doesn’t look very tired to me,” she said. The mother is displeased. “He’s up to something.” They decide to follow him and find out. They quickly follow him as he rushes through the rainy streets. Eventually, they find themselves at a pub called “The Red Lion” and watch through the window as the old man enters and uses the pound note to pay for a triple whisky.

Question:

According to the passage, which of the following statements is correct?

Option 1: Mother gave only the cab fare and did not took the umbrella in return.

Option 2: Old man was selling them a silk umbrella worth one pound.

Option 3: When mother and girl decided to go home they had no umbrella.

Option 4: The old man used the pound note give by the girls mother to take the taxi home.

Question : X, Y, and Z can complete a work in 5 days, 15 days, and 30 days, respectively. In how many days can the work be completed if X is assisted by Y and Z together every second day?

Option 1: 5 days

Option 2: 4 days

Option 3: 7 days

Option 4: 6 days

Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in indirect speech. 

She said, “Ruhi slipped when she was trying to board the bus.”

Option 1: She said that Ruhi had slipped when she was trying to board the bus.

Option 2: She says that Ruhi slipped when she was trying to board the bus.

Option 3: She said that Ruhi has slipped when she was trying to board the bus.

Option 4: She said that Ruhi slipped when she was trying to board the bus.