Given below is a report with four blanks. Fill those blanks with the options provided to make the report sensible. |
Hindustan Times, 4th Oct: Sixty-six years after Independence, ______I ____for narrow electoral considerations. By bowing to a sustained agitation in a piecemeal manner, the pathways have been opened for similar agitations. |
Though given ample opportunity ____II ____it. As a result, future governments are likely to continue behaving like proverbial headless chickens whenever faced with similar situations elsewhere. |
Many argue that demands for smaller states raise the spectre of something like 565 princely states coming back to haunt India. _____III_____. Parties with a pan- |
Indian presence will probably be at an advantage. |
But even if this does not happen, it is not sufficient reason for not taking a fresh look at reorganisation. Quick-fix___ IV ___adequately backed by experts. |
P: Solutions chiseled out on social media, TV shows or through other mass media cannot replace reasoned scrutiny by a second reorganisation commission |
Q: The government and political parties across the board still react as crisis managers when redrawing the nation's internal map. Instead of rationally evolved principles guiding it, the decision on Telangana has once again been |
Taken |
R: Over the past three years to evolve a framework for reorganisation of India, the government squandered |
S: Such fears are exaggerated and on the contrary this may significantly reduce the role and have sufficient numbers of parliamentary seats for leaders in just one small state to exert considerable political influence |
Direction: Give the synonyms for the words underlined in the sentences below: |
A conscientious worker is always admired by his employers. |
Direction: Give the synonyms for the words underlined in the sentences below: |
He cast a cursory glance over the papers before signing them. |
Given below is a statement followed by two arguments numbered I&II. You have to decide which of the given arguments is a 'strong? one, and which is 'weak'. |
Statement: |
Should all the drugs patented and manufactured in western countries be first tried out on sample basis before giving license for sale to general public in India? |
Arguments: |
I: Yes. Many such drugs require different doses and duration for Indian population and hence it is necessary. |
II: No. This is just not feasible and hence cannot be implemented. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks as per subject-verb agreement: |
Hardly ____ left the railway station when the train arrived. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks as per subject-verb agreement: |
Justice, as well as mercy, ____it. |
Give one word substitution for the following. |
Existing only in name |
Find the analogy. |
Nature: Neglect:: Denigrate: |
Arrange P, Q, R, S between 1 & 6 to make a correct sentence. |
1. Variety, they say, is the spice of life, |
P: decided to take this adage to heart and |
Q: pieces of garlic |
R: serve 'sambar' garnished with a few |
S: but a certain reputed hotel |
6. in its 'vegetarian food only' restaurant. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate preposition: |
He was told not to worry ___the matter. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate preposition: |
Hearing of his brother's accident he immediately started ___ Mumbai. |
Give a correct question tag. |
Sheena broke the glass, ____? |
Given below is a sentence in four parts. One of the parts contains a grammatical error. Find the part. |
The bus could not (i)/ascend the steep hill (ii)/because it was (iii)/in the wrong gears (iv). |
Change the narration. |
"Where did you go yesterday 7" he asked. |
Choose the appropriate filler to complete the sentence. |
It is unfortunate that_______. |
Direction: Give the usage of the words underlined in the sentences below: |
All spoke in his favour. |
Direction: Give the usage of the words underlined in the sentences below: |
There is time enough and to spare. |
Direction: Identify the exact meaning of the idiom and phrases given below: |
To read between lines |
Direction: Identify the exact meaning of the idiom and phrases given below: |
All and sundry |
Arrange P, Q, R, S, between A & B to give the correct sequence of a story. |
A: "This discovery is important to food scientists and candy lovers because it will give them yummier caramel flavours and more tantalizing textures. It even gives the pharmaceutical industry a way to improve excipients, the proverbial spoonful of sugar that helps your medicine go down/' said Shelly J. Schmidt, a University of Illinois professor of food chemistry. |
P: Schmidt and graduate student Joo Won Lee didn't intend to turn an established rule of food science on its head. But they began to suspect that something was amiss when they couldn't get a constant melting point for sucrose in the work that they were doing. |
Q: In a presentation to the Institute of Food Technologists about the importance of the new discovery, Schmidt told the food scientists that they could use the new findings to manipulate sugar and improve their products' flavour and consistency. |
R: "Certain flavour compounds give you a nice caramel flavour, whereas others give you a burnt or bitter taste. Food scientists will now be able to make more of the desirable flavorus because they won't have to heat to a 'melting' temperature but can instead hold sugar over a low temperature for a longer period of time/' she said. |
S: Candy makers will be able to use a predictable time-temperature relationship, as the dairy industry does in milk pasteurization, to achieve better results, she said. |
B: The scientists determined that the melting point of sugar was heating-rate dependent. |
Fill in the blanks with appropriate conjunction. |
Shreya reached home _____ didn't find her mother there. |
Change the voice. |
He knew that his own life was unjust. |
Identify the usage of the word underlined. |
To respect our parents is our duty. |
Identify the figure of speech. |
Death lays his icy hand on kings. |
Judge the right word. |
We must______ our students on subjects like health an sanitation besides the usual subjects. |
Direction: Read the given information carefully and answer the questions: |
An employee has been assigned the task of allotting offices to six of the staff members. The offices are numbered 1-6. The offices are arranged in a row and they are separated from each other by six foot high dividers. Hence voices, cigarette smoke and sound flow easily from one office to another. Miss Robert needs to use telephone quite often through-out the day. Mr. Mike and Mr. Brown need adjacent offices as they need to consult each other often. Miss Hardy is a senior employee and has to be allotted office no 5, having bigger window. Mr. Donald requires silence in the offices next to his. Mr. Tim, Mr. Mike and Mr. Donald are all smokers. Miss Hardy is allergic to tobacco and hence office next to her has to be allotted to a non-smoker. |
The ideal candidate to occupy the office furthest from Mr. Brown would be: |
Direction: Read the given information carefully and answer the questions: |
An employee has been assigned the task of allotting offices to six of the staff members. The offices are numbered 1-6. The offices are arranged in a row and they are separated from each other by six foot high dividers. Hence voices, cigarette smoke and sound flow easily from one office to another. Miss Robert needs to use telephone quite often through-out the day. Mr. Mike and Mr. Brown need adjacent offices as they need to consult each other often. Miss Hardy is a senior employee and has to be allotted office no 5, having bigger window. Mr. Donald requires silence in the offices next to his. Mr. Tim, Mr. Mike and Mr. Donald are all smokers. Miss Hardy is allergic to tobacco and hence office next to her has to be allotted to a non-smoker. |
The three employees who are smokers should be seated in the offices no: |
Identify the kind of tense for the given sentence. Alliya left for her summer camp on Monday last promising her friends to return home latest by next |
Tuesday. |
Fill in the blanks with correct determiners. |
He is so bad tempered that he has friends. |
The underlined word in the given sentence is an example of: |
Give pi ace to your betters. |
Give the antonym for the word given in capital letters below. |
MEANDERING |
Improve the sentence given below by changing its underlined portion. |
I have never realized that if an innocent act like this could land a man into trouble. |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: |
"Any puja or ritual conducted without using the aromatic substances javvadi, kasturi and punugu bears no fruit," says a verse in an ancient scripture on the mode of conducting rituals in Vaishnavite temples. The three aromatic substances are used from time immemorial, but the continued use of the substances may be in doubt in the distant future, if not now. |
Leaving aside kasturi and javvadi, take the case of punugu, which gives a long-lasting and refreshing fragrance. The animal 'civet' is reared to obtain the gel secreted from one of its glands to be used in the temple rituals. The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams is rearing the civet in its Sri Venkateshwara Dairy Farm. |
The nocturnal animal, which lives normally in bushy woods, has found a new environment in the cages, with fans to cool it and meat for it to feast on. The nine animals put together secrete 10 grams of civet a week that will be purified before the offering. The civet is smeared on the divine idol before performing 'abhishekam' on Fridays. |
Zoologically, the animal belongs to the viverridae family and six of the 15 varieties are found in India. Of them, the |
Small Indian Civet and Common Palm Civet or Toddy Civet/ Malabar Civet are the two varieties found in south of the Vindhyas. A problem in the long run to the Tirumala Tirupati |
Devasthanams is about the availability of the animal. At present, it is dependent on tribal or the native inhabitants of the jungle for procuring it. They capture newborns and hand them over to the dairy, apparently for a price. |
The three aromatic substances mentioned in the passage relate to: |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: |
"Any puja or ritual conducted without using the aromatic substances javvadi, kasturi and punugu bears no fruit," says a verse in an ancient scripture on the mode of conducting rituals in Vaishnavite temples. The three aromatic substances are used from time immemorial, but the continued use of the substances may be in doubt in the distant future, if not now. |
Leaving aside kasturi and javvadi, take the case of punugu, which gives a long-lasting and refreshing fragrance. The animal 'civet' is reared to obtain the gel secreted from one of its glands to be used in the temple rituals. The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams is rearing the civet in its Sri Venkateshwara Dairy Farm. |
The nocturnal animal, which lives normally in bushy woods, has found a new environment in the cages, with fans to cool it and meat for it to feast on. The nine animals put together secrete 10 grams of civet a week that will be purified before the offering. The civet is smeared on the divine idol before performing 'abhishekam' on Fridays. |
Zoologically, the animal belongs to the viverridae family and six of the 15 varieties are found in India. Of them, the |
Small Indian Civet and Common Palm Civet or Toddy Civet/ Malabar Civet are the two varieties found in south of the Vindhyas. A problem in the long run to the Tirumala Tirupati |
Devasthanams is about the availability of the animal. At present, it is dependent on tribal or the native inhabitants of the jungle for procuring it. They capture newborns and hand them over to the dairy, apparently for a price. |
The substances: javvadi, kasturi and punugu are obtained from: |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: |
"Any puja or ritual conducted without using the aromatic substances javvadi, kasturi and punugu bears no fruit," says a verse in an ancient scripture on the mode of conducting rituals in Vaishnavite temples. The three aromatic substances are used from time immemorial, but the continued use of the substances may be in doubt in the distant future, if not now. |
Leaving aside kasturi and javvadi, take the case of punugu, which gives a long-lasting and refreshing fragrance. The animal 'civet' is reared to obtain the gel secreted from one of its glands to be used in the temple rituals. The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams is rearing the civet in its Sri Venkateshwara Dairy Farm. |
The nocturnal animal, which lives normally in bushy woods, has found a new environment in the cages, with fans to cool it and meat for it to feast on. The nine animals put together secrete 10 grams of civet a week that will be purified before the offering. The civet is smeared on the divine idol before performing 'abhishekam' on Fridays. |
Zoologically, the animal belongs to the viverridae family and six of the 15 varieties are found in India. Of them, the |
Small Indian Civet and Common Palm Civet or Toddy Civet/ Malabar Civet are the two varieties found in south of the Vindhyas. A problem in the long run to the Tirumala Tirupati |
Devasthanams is about the availability of the animal. At present, it is dependent on tribal or the native inhabitants of the jungle for procuring it. They capture newborns and hand them over to the dairy, apparently for a price. |
The word 'nocturnal' used in the passage means: |
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