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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

Question : Susan can type 12 pages in 6 minutes. Mary can type 6 pages in 12 minutes, working together, how many pages can they type in 32 minutes?

Option 1: 80

Option 2: 65

Option 3: 70

Option 4: 75

Question : The average of 100 observations was calculated as 35. It was found later, that one of the observations was misread as 83 instead of 53. The correct average is:

Option 1: 32.7

Option 2: 34.7

Option 3: 35.7

Option 4: 36.7

Question : Directions: In the following question, the given sentence has four parts marked P, Q, R, and S. Choose the part of the sentence with the error and select it as your answer. If there is no error, select "No Error (S)" as your answer.

(P) According to one survey (Q) only those forests which were (R) not under village management succumbed from fires recently. (S) No Error

1. P
2. Q
3. R
4. S

Option 1: 1

Option 2: 2

Option 3: 3

Option 4: 4

Question : A invests INR 6,00,000 more than B in a business. B invests his capital for $7 \frac{1}{2}$ months, while A invests his capital for $2 \frac{1}{2}$ more months than B. Out of the total profit of INR 12,40,000, if the share of B is INR 2,48,000 less than the share of A, then the capital of B is:

Option 1: INR 45,00,000

Option 2: INR 42,00,000

Option 3: INR 40,00,000

Option 4: INR 48,00,000

Question : Which Chola ruler built the Brihadeshwara Temple at Tanjore?

Option 1: Rajaraja I

Option 2: Rajendra I

Option 3: Vijayalaya

Option 4: Rajendra III

Question : The acid which is secreted by the glands in the stomach wall is

Option 1: Sulphuric acid

Option 2: Hydrochloric acid

Option 3: nitric acid

Option 4: Phosphoric acid

Question : PA and PB are two tangents from a point P outside the circle with centre O. If A and B are points on the circle such that $\angle {APB}=100^{\circ}$, then $\angle {OAB}$ is equal to:

Option 1: $45^{\circ}$

Option 2: $35^{\circ}$

Option 3: $70^{\circ}$

Option 4: $50^{\circ}$

Question : Directions: In the following question, some parts of the sentence have errors, and some are correct. Find out which part of the sentence has an error. The number of that part is the answer. If a sentence is error-free, your answer is "No Error".

He adviced me (1) / to join (2) / the computer course later in the year. (3) / No Error (4)

Option 1: 1

Option 2: 2

Option 3: 3

Option 4: 4