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Question : The boiling point of water decreases at higher altitudes due to:

Option 1: low temperature

Option 2: low atmospheric pressure

Option 3: high temperature

Option 4: high atmospheric pressure

Question : Find the part of the given sentence that has an error in it. If there is no error, choose 'No Error'.

Factoring is, of course, different from and superior than bill discounting, from the point of view of a small company.

Option 1: bill discounting, from the point of

Option 2: No Error

Option 3: factoring is, of course, different from and superior than

Option 4: view of a small company.

Question : If $x(x-5)=-1$, then the value of $x^3\left(x^3-110\right)=$?

Option 1: 0

Option 2: –1

Option 3: 1

Option 4: 2

Question : Directions: Select the figure from among the given options that can replace the question mark (?) in the following series.

Option 1:

Option 2:

Option 3:

Option 4:

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

The efforts of the doctors came to a futile end with the death of the patient.

Option 1: Fruitless

Option 2: Enriching

Option 3: Startling

Option 4: Terrifying

Question : The breadth of a rectangle is $\frac{4}{5}$th of the radius of a circle. The radius of the circle is $\frac{1}{5}$ of the side of a square, whose area is 625 cm². What is the area of the rectangle if the length of the rectangle is 20 cm?

Option 1: 150 cm²

Option 2: 600 cm²

Option 3: 100 cm²

Option 4: 80 cm²

Question : Select the most appropriate ANTONYM to replace the italicised word.

He greeted Charles with a languid wave of his hand.

Option 1: Supine

Option 2: Sluggish

Option 3: Energetic

Option 4: Lackadaisical

Question : Fill in the blank with an appropriate option.

How can seawater from the oceans be _______ fresh water that is suitable for people to drink?

Option 1: change about

Option 2: surrender in

Option 3: minced on

Option 4: turned into

Question : Comprehension:

Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

Rajasthan's farmers have been banging plates and lighting fires these days. It is their desperate attempt to scare away the swarms of migratory locusts invading their fields and eating away crops. The pest attack has come as a double blow for farmers already reeling under the impact of the COVID lockdown.

Millions of locusts, covering 1-4 sq km of the skyline, have reached 10 of the state's 33 districts within three weeks of being first spotted on April 30. Last year, yellow locusts entered India from Pakistan in the second half of May. The attack had originated in Yemen, coming all the way to West Asia, Pakistan, and then India, creating havoc in 17 countries en route.

With the harvest nearly over in Rajasthan, the invading population of grasshoppers this May is feeding mainly on sprouting cotton crops sown last month, vegetables, and fodder. State officials, though, fear damage to the young millet and moong dal crops due in July and August if the locusts breed.

Flying in through the Pakistan border near Jaisalmer, the locust swarms have infiltrated as deep as Kishangarh in Ajmer district. Locusts can cover 200–250 km in a day if they get wind support. Presently, the dust storms sweeping parts of Rajasthan are aiding their flight. Officials said the Union Agriculture Ministry's Locusts Warning Organisation (LWO) is in the process of acquiring 60 vehicles with mounted insecticide sprayers from abroad by July. Ten such vehicles were purchased this January.

"Immature pink locusts are very active, which is why they have reached the interiors of Rajasthan [from Pakistan] so quickly," says K.L. Gurjar, deputy director, of LWO. Their metabolism slows down during winters, but in summers, they can fly from 4 am to 8 pm, covering long distances and consuming more crops along the way than mature locusts would. The LWO has put 10 insecticide-spraying vehicles on the job in Rajasthan. The Rajasthan government has provided rented tractors, on which insecticide sprayers are mounted, and also the manpower to man them. The centre-state joint operation has so far cleared a few hundred sq km of fields of the locusts. Preliminary estimates put the loss to crops at a few crore rupees.

State officials say there is an urgent need to contain the pink locusts before they start breeding in the next few weeks. Indiscriminate aerial spraying of insecticides is ill-advised, as this can damage crops as well as affect human settlements.

One of the strategies being considered now is to use fixed-wing aircraft for ultra-low volume spraying of chemicals. The state government may request such aerial sorties from the air force. Drones have limited capabilities as they can carry only about 20 litres of insecticide at a time, making them effective only over small areas.

Question:
If the locusts breed, which crops will they damage?
 

Option 1: Cotton crop

Option 2: Millet and moong

Option 3: Fodder

Option 4: Vegetables

Question : Comprehension:

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.

You go up a dark, rickety stairwell of a building on a crowded street in Calcutta. You enter a small room. The centre of the room is empty but the corners are stacked with bedrolls, utensils and water bottles. Musical instruments, drums, cymbals and gongs are piled in a corner. Today, the room is filled with the laughter of men and women in colourful attire. Among the happy chorus of congratulations and laughter, the bride Chumki Pal and the groom Sandeep can be seen smiling. They are both blind, as are most of the people surrounding them. Pal is wearing a bright turquoise blue sari. “I know it’s blue because people have told me but I can’t imagine how it looks. But believe me, when I dream, I dream only in colours,” she says. Their romance blossomed when they met as members of Blind Opera, the only one of its kind in the country as well as in Asia.

The 36 spirited members of Blind Opera demonstrate that physical disability is not an obstacle. They enact plays by Rabindranath Tagore, considered challenging even by veteran theatre groups. Blind Opera was launched in 1996 by four theatre aficionados, who took it as a challenge to get together the talents of these visually impaired people. The challenge to present the cast on stage is immense since space management is a problem. To solve this, the directors use ropes to separate the stage and the wings. When the actors step on the rope they know that it is the entrance to the stage. The members cannot see, but they can smell, hear and touch – three elements inherent to any theatre. At Blind Opera, they “believe that the blind can see. That is, they see in their own way, if not in our way, with the help of these abilities.”

For the visually impaired, theatre is the medium for the expression of their creative urges. They respond instinctively; they cannot copy anyone else because they cannot see. Their body language tells the story and hence it is very spontaneous. The members have earned kudos from Calcutta audiences. For the members of the troupe, discovering the language of the body is in a way also a journey of the persona. Coming from diverse backgrounds but bound together by the same disability, they have found an outlet for their creativity through the plays. They do not feel isolated anymore because they can relate to their fellow performers. There is also a greater purpose behind it: to use theatre to build a community and mainstream the huge number of disabled living in isolation. Together they can be a force to demand better facilities in public life. Blind children should enter the mainstream from the beginning. The big dream of the group is to establish a drama school following the ideal of Tagore’s Shantiniketan, offering a platform for creative expression to all those who are economically and socially forced to stay in the periphery. Like Chumki Pal, they all dream in colour.

Question:

What is the biggest problem in presenting the troupe on stage?

Option 1: Space management

Option 2: Time management

Option 3: Communication

Option 4: Spontaneity