Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: |
On a clear bright sunny day, take a powerful magnifying glass and a stack of newspapers and go outside for an experiment. Hold the magnifying glass over a pile of crumpled pages. Even though you are magnifying the power of sun's rays through the glass lens, you will never start a fire if you keep moving the glass. But if you hold the magnifying glass still allowing it to focus the rays in a concentrated beam of sun energy, you harness the power of the sun and multiplying it through the lens you start a fire. Focusing also works with your power of thought. Try it and ignite your wandering ideas. Set before yourself a great and definite life purpose. Hidden away in your innermost soul is a transcendent ideal capable of realization. What you need is not more capacity or greater opportunity, but increased resolution and concentration. Nothing will give you so much pleasure as the consciousness of asking daily progress toward a great life purpose. |
Why the holding of a magnifying glass over a pile of crumpled papers under bright sun light can ignite fire? |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: |
On a clear bright sunny day, take a powerful magnifying glass and a stack of newspapers and go outside for an experiment. Hold the magnifying glass over a pile of crumpled pages. Even though you are magnifying the power of sun's rays through the glass lens, you will never start a fire if you keep moving the glass. But if you hold the magnifying glass still allowing it to focus the rays in a concentrated beam of sun energy, you harness the power of the sun and multiplying it through the lens you start a fire. Focusing also works with your power of thought. Try it and ignite your wandering ideas. Set before yourself a great and definite life purpose. Hidden away in your innermost soul is a transcendent ideal capable of realization. What you need is not more capacity or greater opportunity, but increased resolution and concentration. Nothing will give you so much pleasure as the consciousness of asking daily progress toward a great life purpose. |
Why you will never start a fire if you keep moving the glass? |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: |
On a clear bright sunny day, take a powerful magnifying glass and a stack of newspapers and go outside for an experiment. Hold the magnifying glass over a pile of crumpled pages. Even though you are magnifying the power of sun's rays through the glass lens, you will never start a fire if you keep moving the glass. But if you hold the magnifying glass still allowing it to focus the rays in a concentrated beam of sun energy, you harness the power of the sun and multiplying it through the lens you start a fire. Focusing also works with your power of thought. Try it and ignite your wandering ideas. Set before yourself a great and definite life purpose. Hidden away in your innermost soul is a transcendent ideal capable of realization. What you need is not more capacity or greater opportunity, but increased resolution and concentration. Nothing will give you so much pleasure as the consciousness of asking daily progress toward a great life purpose. |
Focusing also works ___ ( Fill up the gap) |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow: |
On a clear bright sunny day, take a powerful magnifying glass and a stack of newspapers and go outside for an experiment. Hold the magnifying glass over a pile of crumpled pages. Even though you are magnifying the power of sun's rays through the glass lens, you will never start a fire if you keep moving the glass. But if you hold the magnifying glass still allowing it to focus the rays in a concentrated beam of sun energy, you harness the power of the sun and multiplying it through the lens you start a fire. Focusing also works with your power of thought. Try it and ignite your wandering ideas. Set before yourself a great and definite life purpose. Hidden away in your innermost soul is a transcendent ideal capable of realization. What you need is not more capacity or greater opportunity, but increased resolution and concentration. Nothing will give you so much pleasure as the consciousness of asking daily progress toward a great life purpose. |
Wherein our transcendent ideal capable of realization is hidden? |
Fill in the blanks with appropriate article. |
___John is _____ Einstein of our class. |
Identify the part of speech of the word underlined in the given sentence. |
Shall we go for a walk? |
Direction: Fill up the gaps with appropriate preposition: |
History records seventeen incursions of Sultan Mahmood ____ India. |
Direction: Fill up the gaps with appropriate preposition: |
I congratulate you ___ your success. |
Identify the kind of the clause of the underline part of the sentence given below: |
Robina found her doll where I had guessed. |
Direction: Give the antonym of the words written in capital letters: |
THRIFT |
Direction: Give the antonym of the words written in capital letters: |
ONEROUS |
Direction: Fill in the gaps as per subject-verb agreement: |
Nina talks as if she___ a queen. |
Direction: Fill in the gaps as per subject-verb agreement: |
Neither Charles nor his parents ___ granted to leave the country. |
Arrange PQRS to make a meaningful sentence. |
Without books |
P: no cultured society is possible |
Q: no fresh ideas are possible |
R: and |
S: without fresh ideas |
Fill in the blanks with correct conjunction. |
I shall find you out ______ you may go. |
Change the voice. |
The teacher said, "Be quite, boys". |
Direction: Give the exact meaning of the idiom /phrases given below: |
To get cold feet |
Direction: Give the exact meaning of the idiom /phrases given below: |
A tall order |
Given below is a paragraph with four blanks. |
Fill those blanks with the options provided in |
P, Q, R, S to make it a sensible one: |
Don't be surprised _______ I _______this Wimbledon. Pinki, a nine-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh, ____ II ______ the first serve in the grand finale the little girl says she wants to look her best when she steps on the grass at the Grand Centre Court and is busy shopping in Varanasi for her trip to London. Four years ago, ____ III _____ bagged the Oscar for the 'Best Documentary'. The 39-minute documentary captures Pinki's surgical transformation. Celebrated as ____ IV ____by the Smile Train Foundation. |
P: will flip the coin that will decide who gets to hit |
Q: the face for noble cause, she is now being flown to London |
R: when you see a little Indian girl sharing the centre-stage with the two of the men finalists |
S: Pinki was all smiles when a film inspired by her cleft lip surgery, "Smile Pinki' |
Choose the correct order of adjectives in the following sentence. |
I am drinking from a ______ cup. |
Direction: Give the synonym of the words given in capital letters below: |
DISPARAGE |
Direction: Give the synonym of the words given in capital letters below: |
FIASCO |
The word underlined in the given sentence is a: |
Wow! That was easy! |
Arrange P, Q, R and S to make a sensible passage. |
P. The Champions Trophy differs from the World Cup in a number of ways. The Champions Trophy takes place every two years, while the World Cup is held every four years. The matches in the Champions Trophy are held over a period of around two weeks, while the World Cup can last for over a month. |
Q. Previously, twelve teams played a round- robin tournament in four pools of three, with the top team in each pool moving forward to the semi-final. A team would play only four games (two in the pool, semi-final and final) to win the tournament. |
R. Under the present format, the ICC Champions Trophy is divided into two groups and each team will play every other team in its Group. Following the Group stage the top 2 teams from each Group will progress to the semifinals where the winner of Group A will play the runner up of Group B (in the 1st semi-final) and the winner of Group B will play the runner up of Group A (in the 2nd semi-final). |
S. The ICC Champions Trophy is a One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament organised by the International |
Cricket Council (ICC), second in importance only to the Cricket World Cup. |
Identify the part of speech of the word underlined in the given sentence. |
I may have offended, but such was not my intention. |
Direction: Give the one word substitution for the followings: |
People in a rowdy scene |
Direction: Give the one word substitution for the followings: |
People at a lecture or concert |
Fill in the blank with correct determiners. |
You might obtain your goal if you put forth ______ more effort. |
Judge the right word. |
Coleen's knee injury_______ her from furthering her career as a long-distance runner. |
Change the direct sentence into indirect one. |
He said to them, "Don't make a noise". |
Identify the tense of the sentence given below. |
But I go for breakfast only after I have taken my bath. |
Three sentences are given below. You have to identify the sentence (s) which is/are fact(s) and the sentence(s) which is/are opinion(s). |
I. A systematic search for intelligent life beyond the solar system will be undertaken shortly by some advanced countries. |
II. Civilisation exists beyond the Solar system. |
III. Civilisation doesn't exist beyond the Solar system. |
Direction: Read the given information carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
Mr. Salisbury wants to renovate his home. H hires the services of a plumber, a carpenter, a painter, an electrician and an interior decorator. The renovation has to be completed within one working week, i. e. Monday to Friday. Every worker will need one full day to complete his job. Mr. S will allow just one person to work per day. |
1. The painter can work only after the plumber and the carpenter has completed their job. |
2. The interior decorator has to complete his job before that of electrician. |
3. The carpenter cannot work on Monday or |
Tuesday. |
In case the painter works on Thursday, which among the following alternatives is possible? |
Direction: Read the given information carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
Mr. Salisbury wants to renovate his home. H hires the services of a plumber, a carpenter, a painter, an electrician and an interior decorator. The renovation has to be completed within one working week, i. e. Monday to Friday. Every worker will need one full day to complete his job. Mr. S will allow just one person to work per day. |
1. The painter can work only after the plumber and the carpenter has completed their job. |
2. The interior decorator has to complete his job before that of electrician. |
3. The carpenter cannot work on Monday or |
Tuesday. |
In case the painter works on Friday, which among the following statements must be untrue? |
Give the correct question tag. |
Mr. Higgins is from Dublin._________? |
Find the analogy. |
Paris: Eiffel Tower :: Sydney:? |
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