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Question : The venue of the Energy Summit, 2008 was

Option 1: Jeddah

Option 2: Tehran

Option 3: Riyadh

Option 4: Tripoli

Question : Direction: If Z = Y > R = M and G > H = Z = Q, then which of the following options is NOT correct?

Option 1: H = Y

Option 2: G > Q

Option 3: R > Z

Option 4: Q > R

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:
Which pair of birds did the author see in Naukuchiatal?

Option 1: Coppersmith barbet

Option 2: Paradise flycatcher

Option 3: Hornbill

Option 4: Great Indian bustard

Question : $\mathrm{O}$ is the centre of a circle and $\mathrm{A}$ is a point on a major arc $\mathrm{BC}$ of the circle. $\angle \mathrm{BOC}$ and $\angle \mathrm{BAC}$ are the angles made by the minor arc $\mathrm{BC}$ on the centre and circumference, respectively. If $\angle \mathrm{ABO}=40^{\circ}$ and $\angle \mathrm{ACO}=30^{\circ}$, then find $\angle \mathrm{BOC}$.

Option 1: $130^{\circ}$

Option 2: $140^{\circ}$

Option 3: $120^{\circ}$

Option 4: $150^{\circ}$

Question : Which Indian shuttler won the men's singles final at the Scottish Open in Glasgow, Scotland on 24 November 2019?

Option 1: Sameer Verma

Option 2: Lakshya Sen

Option 3: Arvind Bhatt

Option 4: Anand Pawar

Question : Directions: In the following question, some parts of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If the sentence is free from error, select "No Error."

You will come (1) / to my sister's wedding tomorrow, (2) / isn't it? (3) / No Error (4)

Option 1: (1)

Option 2: (2)

Option 3: (3)

Option 4: (4)

Question : Directions: If A ÷ B means that A is the brother of B, A × B means that A is the sister of B, and A – B means that A is the father of B then which of the following expressions shows that P is the father of R?

Option 1: P – Q × R

Option 2: P × Q – R

Option 3: P ÷ Q × R

Option 4: P – Q – R

Question : In triangle ABC, $\angle$ABC = 15°. D is a point on BC such that AD = BD. What is the measure of $\angle$ADC (in degrees)?

Option 1: 15

Option 2: 30

Option 3: 45

Option 4: 60

Question : Comprehension:

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.

The sage of science, Einstein, was sitting in a depressive and pensive mood one evening. His eyes were brimming with tears. The pain was evident on his face. He peeped out of the window of his room. The sun had set a few minutes back. The sky was filled with a reddish glow. At this sunset, he felt that it was humanity that had sunk into devilish darkness and the reddish glow in the sky was the blood of humanity spilling all over the sky from earth. With tired steps, he walked back to his chair and settled down. It was the 9th of August 1945. Three days back, he had felt the same agony as if someone had torn him apart. He was deeply hurt and depressed when he heard on the radio that America had dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city, of Hiroshima. Today, within three days another bomb was dropped on another city, Nagasaki and lakhs of people had been killed.

He had heard that the blast released so much energy that it had paled all past destructions in comparison and death had played out a pitiable dance of destruction. The flames that broke out of the bomb were burning, melting, and exploding buildings. Scared of the heat of the bomb, people had jumped into lakes and rivers, but the water was boiling and the people too were burnt and killed. The animals in the water were already boiled to death. Animals, trees, herbs, and fragrant flowering plants were all turned into ashes. The atomic energy destruction had just not stopped there. It had entered the atmosphere there and had spread radiation that would affect people for generations to come and would also bring about destructive irreversible biological change in animals and plants.

As the news of the atomic attack reached Einstein, and he became aware of the glaring horror of the abuse of atomic energy, his distress and restlessness knew no bounds. He could not control himself and picked up his violin to turn his mind on to other things. While playing
the violin, he tried to dissolve his distress in its sad notes, but couldn’t. He was burning on the embers of destruction; his heart was filled with an ocean of agony and tears just continued streaming uncontrollably out of his eyes. Night had fallen. His daughter came up and asked
him to eat something as he had not taken anything for the last four days. His voice was restrained and he said, “I don’t feel like eating.”

He could not sleep that night. Lying down, he was thinking about how he had drawn the attention of the then-American President Roosevelt toward the destructive powers of an atomic bomb. He had thought that this would be used to scare Hitler and put an end to the barbarism that Hitler was up to. However, Roosevelt kept him in the dark and made false promises. Eventually, he abused Einstein’s equation of E = mc2 which resulted in destructive experiments. His actions had made science and scientists as murderers. Einstein kept on thinking for a long time. Eventually, he slipped into sleep. When he woke up at dawn, there was a new dawn in him too. The atomic threat had transformed his heart.

Question:

Select an appropriate title for the passage.

Option 1: War and Destruction

Option 2: Death in Hiroshima

Option 3: Einstein and his Violin

Option 4: Atom Bombs

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.

The burglar was __________ when he broke into the house and found himself surrounded by police officers.

Option 1: flabbergasted

Option 2: unimpressed

Option 3: bored

Option 4: unruffled