Question : Given below are four jumbled sentences. Pick the option that gives their correct order.

Mount Everest is a peak in the Himalayas mountain range.
P. It is located between Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of China.
Q. At 8,849 meters (29,032 feet), it is considered the tallest point on Earth.
R. In the nineteenth century, the mountain was named after George Everest, a former Surveyor General of India.
S. The Tibetan name is Chomolungma, which means “Mother Goddess of the World.”

The Nepali name is Sagarmatha, which has various meanings.

Option 1: PQRS

Option 2: SPQR

Option 3: SRQP

Option 4: RPSQ

Question : Identify the incorrect statement given below:

Option 1: Present currency can work as money as it is a legal tender.

Option 2: Coins held by the public are limited legal tender.

Option 3: Central bank prints currency in India.

Option 4: Central banks do not deal with the general public.

Question : A money bill under Article 111 of the Constitution of India, presented to the President for assent, has to be endorsed by a Certificate of the ____________ signed by him/her that it is a money bill.

Option 1: Speaker of the Lok Sabha

Option 2: Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha

Option 3: Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha

Option 4: Secretary General of the Lok Sabha

Question : There are certain words missing in the passage given below. The options given contain an answer that will fit in those given blanks. Choose the correct word to be used to make the sentence coherent and grammatically correct.

The decision made by the goverment of India to purchase crude oil at a discounted rate from Russia,  when the Putin goverment is bombing civilians in Ukraine, is 1) __________________ by many. 2)________________ to the Narendra Modi administration’s request to not to politicise the issue, in the current scenario the decision is as much political as it is economic, however much we may wish it were not.

While the major countries like US, Europe , Japan and Australia have made no secret revelation that India should  join them in 3) _____________________ Putin’s war, as the goverment of 141 countries who voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolution did. Russia has intentionally offered the discount at the oil to show that India is among the ‘many’ countries that resist the Atlantic alliance’s attempt to 4) __________________ and punish Putin. On the other hand Xi’s China has suddenly discovered that Modi’s India is worth talking to: it will provide cover for the Xi government to not only 5) ________________ attention from its own support for Russia, but also to position itself as someone who is more willing to engage with the Atlantic alliance than India.

Choose the correct word to be used in the blank 1

Option 1: acquire
 

Option 2:  questionable
 

Option 3: extol

Option 4:  impeccable

Question : There are certain words missing in the passage given below. The options given contain an answer that will fit in those given blanks. Choose the correct word to be used to make the sentence coherent and grammatically correct.

The decision made by the goverment of India to purchase crude oil at a discounted rate from Russia,  when the Putin goverment is bombing civilians in Ukraine, is 1) __________________ by many. 2)________________ to the Narendra Modi administration’s request to not to politicise the issue, in the current scenario the decision is as much political as it is economic, however much we may wish it were not.

While the major countries like US, Europe , Japan and Australia have made no secret revelation that India should  join them in 3) _____________________ Putin’s war, as the goverment of 141 countries who voted in favour of the UN General Assembly resolution did. Russia has intentionally offered the discount at the oil to show that India is among the ‘many’ countries that resist the Atlantic alliance’s attempt to 4) __________________ and punish Putin. On the other hand Xi’s China has suddenly discovered that Modi’s India is worth talking to: it will provide cover for the Xi government to not only 5) ________________ attention from its own support for Russia, but also to position itself as someone who is more willing to engage with the Atlantic alliance than India.

Choose the correct word to be used in the blank 5.

Option 1: beseech
 

Option 2: extol

Option 3: deflect
 

Option 4:  signify