Given below is a passage in jumbled parts, marked P, Q, R, S. Arrange those parts to make the proper sequence of the passage.
P: The study was conducted on 10,000 healthy, non-smoking individuals in Jaipur, Pune, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Kashmir.
Q: The main reason for worsening lung health of
India was air pollution. "The number of motor vehicles, a major contributor to air pollution, in India has gone up from 37.2 million in 1997 to 100 million in 2012. In 1951, there were just 0.3 million motor vehicles," said Dr. Sundeep Salvi, director of Pune-based Chest Research Foundation.
R: In another proof that worsening air quality in
Indian cities is affecting people's health, a study has found that Indians have 30% lower lung function as compared to Europeans. Things could get worse if immediate steps are not taken to curb vehicular emission, doctors warned.
S: Similar results were seen in an international study on lung function in 17 countries, including India, by Canadian researchers. Indians were found to have the worst lungs in the study which measured the volume of air exhaled one second after a forceful exhalation. The test is called forced expiratory volume (FEV).
Find the statement that must be true according to the given information. Sabrina is twelve years old. For past three years she has been asking her parents for a dog. Her parents have told her that they believe a dog would not be happy living in an apartment, but they have given her permission to have a bird. Sabrina has not yet decided on what kind of bird she would like to have.
A)
Sabrina's parents like birds more than a dog.
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B)
Sabrina is adamant to have dog, as she doesn't like bird much.
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C)
Sabrina and her parents are unable to decide on the kind of pet they would like to have at home.
Identify the type of the sentence given below as per its structure. Whenever he heard the question, the old man who lived in that house, answered that the earth is flat.
Given below is a sentence in four parts. One of the parts contains a grammatical error. Find the part. Hardly did she finish (i)/ the typing when (ii)/ the Manager entered the room (iii)/ with some more work (iv).
Given below are two statements followed by two conclusions. One the basis of these you are to select the correct option. (You have to take the two given statements to be true even if they seem to be absurd.)
Given below is the body of a letter to Editor, with four blanks. Fill in those blanks with the options provided to make it sensible. Through your esteemed newspaper I would like to draw attention to a glaring problem faced by the parents ever year, _____I____. Our government has no transport policy for schools. No______ II ______, adding much to the worries of parents. My question is why can't we have strict regulation, code of conduct etc. especially meant for school buses? Even _____III _____and corporate. I wonder why it can't be done. Everyone contributes; _____IV______ for all stake holders. P: money is made, and jobs are generated. Kids are safe; parents happy. Vote bank retained; politician happy and police spared. A win situation Q: that is, how to send their kids safely to school and how expensive will it be R: government can have own school bus operation in place, with a new lines of rules and regulation, working in tandem with the Tax Dept., Finance Dept., RTO, Transport authority, public / private schools S: special code applies for school buses and their drivers. Owners of vehicles ferrying school children don't follow many guidelines of the transport department. When they were booked for it, they simply threaten to go on strike
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On the slopes of Long's Peak in the Himalayas lies the ruins of a gigantic tree. Naturalists tell us that it stood four hundred years. During the course of life, it was struck by lightening fourteen times and the innumerable avalanches and storms of four centuries thundered past it. It survived them all. At the end, however, an army of beetles attacked the tree and leveled it to the ground. The insects ate their way through the tree by their incessant attacks.
A forest giant, which age had not withered, nor lightening blasted, nor storms subdued, fell at last to beetles so small that a man could crush them between his fingers and his thumb.
The forest giant, as told by Naturalists, stood for:
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On the slopes of Long's Peak in the Himalayas lies the ruins of a gigantic tree. Naturalists tell us that it stood four hundred years. During the course of life, it was struck by lightening fourteen times and the innumerable avalanches and storms of four centuries thundered past it. It survived them all. At the end, however, an army of beetles attacked the tree and leveled it to the ground. The insects ate their way through the tree by their incessant attacks.
A forest giant, which age had not withered, nor lightening blasted, nor storms subdued, fell at last to beetles so small that a man could crush them between his fingers and his thumb.
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On the slopes of Long's Peak in the Himalayas lies the ruins of a gigantic tree. Naturalists tell us that it stood four hundred years. During the course of life, it was struck by lightening fourteen times and the innumerable avalanches and storms of four centuries thundered past it. It survived them all. At the end, however, an army of beetles attacked the tree and leveled it to the ground. The insects ate their way through the tree by their incessant attacks.
A forest giant, which age had not withered, nor lightening blasted, nor storms subdued, fell at last to beetles so small that a man could crush them between his fingers and his thumb.
Which of the followings the tree survived during its course of life?