It's a Question of your Career!

Question : Select the most appropriate synonym of the underlined word in the following sentence.

Our locality has a common space for observing various national days and for organising festivals.

Option 1: celebrating

Option 2: forming

Option 3: witnessing

Option 4: coordinating

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:
What does the word 'lifer' mean for the author?

Option 1: A bird that you see for the first time

Option 2: A bird which is becoming extinct

Option 3: A bird which makes a life-changing impact on you

Option 4: A bird that you love

Question : Directions: In the following question a series is given, with one number missing. Choose the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series.
1, 5, 2, 6, 3, 7, ?

Option 1: 6

Option 2: 5

Option 3: 4

Option 4: 3

Question :

Which of the following structures present in mammalian skin directly helps in keeping the body warm
 

Option 1:

Pigmented cells

Option 2:

Sweat glands

Option 3:

Lymph vessels

Option 4: Blood capillaries

Question : Directions: A series is given with one term missing. Select the correct alternative from the given ones that will complete the series.
RCMG, VWUW, ZQCM, DKKC, ?

Option 1: HFQS

Option 2: SMRQ

Option 3: HMRQ

Option 4: HESS

Question : What is the value of a?
If 15 + 18 ÷ 3 × 5 – 12 ÷ 4 + a = 100

Option 1: 54

Option 2: 58

Option 3: 48

Option 4: 42

Question : Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order, except the first part. Arrange the parts in the correct order to form a meaningful sentence.

As for the first historical fallacy,...
A. only some specialists can unravel its inscrutable mysteries
B. that the past was so different
C. from the present that
D. many people wrongly believe

Option 1: BCDA

Option 2: DCBA

Option 3: DBCA

Option 4: ABCD

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.

Tea prices in the domestic market continue to rule high in the (1) _____ year despite the expectation of higher production as compared to the previous year. According to a preliminary assessment (2) _____ on the weather (3) _____ in recent months, tea output in the next year may reach 800 tonnes as (4) _____ 780 tonnes last year. During the past three months, tea prices have shown an (5) _____ Unlike last year, when tea prices were dramatically low, this year, prices seem to have stabilised at rather high levels.

Question:
Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 2.

Option 1: shared

Option 2: based

Option 3: flown

Option 4: carried

Question : The volume of a solid cylinder is 2002 cm³ and its height is 13 cm. What is the area (in cm²) of its base?
(Take $\pi=\frac{22}{7}$)

Option 1: 77

Option 2: 154

Option 3: 231

Option 4: 308

Question : Select the most appropriate option to improve the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to improve it, select 'No improvement'.

You will have to pay heavy for your crimes.

Option 1: to be paying heavily

Option 2: to pay heavily

Option 3: to paid heavily

Option 4: No improvement