Arrange P, Q, R, S between S& S to make a correct sentence. |
\[{{\mathbf{S}}_{\mathbf{1}}}\mathbf{:}\]The Cabinet removed from the Bill |
P: to make good any revenue loss incurred by them due to |
Q: a guarantee of 100 per cent compensation to |
States for five years |
R: levy by manufacturing States and introduced |
S: the contentious provision for a one per cent additional tax |
\[{{\mathbf{S}}_{\mathbf{6}}}\mathbf{:}\]the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax. |
Given below is the body of a letter to the editor with four blanks. Fill those blanks with the options provided in P, Q, R, S, in correct order, to make the letter meaningfully complete. |
There is no doubt that the quality of political dis- course in India is on the decline. What should be ____ (I) _____who do not think twice about using un-parliamentary language. Abuse is met with abuse instead of intelligent repartee and quick wit. |
For instance, BSP leader Mayawati would have been on surer ground had she chided Dayashankar Singh for ____ (II) _____equally un-parliamentary language. The fact is that we lack mature leaders who are suave and polished even while criticising their opponents. Where are the likes of an______ (III) ____? Our present-day leaders appear to be guided by the short-lived glamour of instant publicity even if it means stooping to the lowest level of discourse. One hopes that ____ (IV) _____the level of discourse. Language must be used with care. |
P: Atal Bihari Vajpayee, an Indrajit Gupta and a Jawaharlal Nehru who silenced their detractors with their sharp retorts |
Q: our younger leaders, who are also better educated, will be able to turn round |
R: a healthy democracy made vibrant by debate and discussion is instead being denigrated by politicians |
S: casting aspersions on a 'community' which is compelled to enter the profession he referred to due to social inequities rather than abusing his family using |
Change the voice. |
Promises should be kept. |
In this question three pairs of words are given, of which two are complete pairs and the third one is incomplete. You are to choose the option that completes the third pair in the same way as the first two pairs have been done. |
1. CAMERA: MACE; |
2. SENTRY: NEST; |
3. CASKET: _____ |
Change the narration. |
"Where do you live?" asked the policeman. |
Identify the type of clause for the underlined part of the sentence given below. |
Once your parents are not at home, I will ask you to take the message. |
Improve the sentence given below by changing its underlined portion. |
They continued to work in the field despite of the heavy rains. |
Give an appropriate filler. |
No sooner ____ his mother felt happy. |
Given below is a book review in jumbled form. |
Arrange P, Q, R, S, between A and B, to give its correct sequence. |
A: On Facebook, the publishers of the book, 'The Photographer' are predicting it to be the delicious summer read bound to inspire a romantic Hindi film. |
P: Twenty-something Pune-based Mimi Datta manages an upgrade on a long flight and finds herself seated next to a Rajib Vhora, he of piercing black eyes and a Rolex-adorned wrist. His smouldering good looks and fine manners bewitch her immediately. By a very lucky coincidence, Mimi happens to be the photographer at the wedding of Vhora's sister. Sparks fly, inevitably, as we know they should. Every cliche idea of romance that has found its way into the Bollywood of old, leaps off the pages here. |
Q: In reality, the book seems like it's been copied from one of Karan Johar's overly frothy family dramas in which the happy Hindu family is unabashedly celebrated. There is an inebriated nani, a handsome, brooding tycoon and a good looking journalist who's begun to moonlight as an event photographer to supplement her meagre income. |
R: Just like Indian filmmakers of yesteryears preferred to portray young love which was naively disconnected from complications, author Heena Bakshi has concentrated on a well-treaded surface of superficial emotion. |
S: The book is misleading from the start. The first few pages lead us to believe that we'd gain a little insight into the surreal world of temporary make-belief of an Indian wedding. What we get instead, is a gushy and banal ac- count of an earnest young girl trying to find Mr Right. |
B: It's just that romantic comedy as a genre has been flogged tirelessly on screen for so long, that you simply can't take exactly the same thing in print if you've been around long enough. |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
The coverage of Kabali by the newspapers in India has attracted a vortex of complaints from their readers. |
Some went on to say that the reportage on Kabali reflected the fall in the standard of the newspapers. In some opinion the focus and hype created by the newspapers also reflect the fall in their standard of reporting. |
Another reader was of the firm opinion that the media hype surrounding the film would have a debilitating influence on schoolchildren. |
A newspaper is a form of common good. The plurality and multiplicity of issues it covers gives it a social role. |
While politics, international relations, security affairs, economics, and policy debates are seen as topics that have a public interest component, many fail to understand the multiple strands that make up our cultural fabric. There seems to be a hierarchy where high culture, especially classical forms, is accorded respectability and its reportage is seen as worthy news. |
However, when it comes to popular culture, the opinion is divided. Nearly two decades ago, Ashis Nandy, one of the finest intellectuals, argued that popular Indian cinema offers a "slum's eye view of politics." He explained how it recreated a remembered village in more than one sense. Mr. Nandy recorded how the screen becomes the site for modernising India in all its complexity, sophistry, |
naivete, and at times even vulgarity, where a dialogue between tradition and modernity is taking place. Hence, it becomes an editorial obligation to look at a phenomenon like Kabali which generated not just nationwide interest but became an international curiosity too. The news about Kabali was one of the biggest entertainment news in most of the South-East Asian countries and in Anglophone countries in Africa. If a particular popular cultural moment has captured the imagination of the people, can the newspaper afford not to cover it extensively? I would have been appalled if any of the major developments had been neglected by the newspaper to accommodate stories about Kabali. But this was the period when the paper had extensive coverage of not only domestic politics, economics and social issues, but also international developments including Brexit, Donald Trump's candidature, the botched up coup in Turkey and its bloody fallout, and terror attacks in Nice and Munich. |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
The coverage of Kabali by the newspapers in India has attracted a vortex of complaints from their readers. |
Some went on to say that the reportage on Kabali reflected the fall in the standard of the newspapers. In some opinion the focus and hype created by the newspapers also reflect the fall in their standard of reporting. |
Another reader was of the firm opinion that the media hype surrounding the film would have a debilitating influence on schoolchildren. |
A newspaper is a form of common good. The plurality and multiplicity of issues it covers gives it a social role. |
While politics, international relations, security affairs, economics, and policy debates are seen as topics that have a public interest component, many fail to understand the multiple strands that make up our cultural fabric. There seems to be a hierarchy where high culture, especially classical forms, is accorded respectability and its reportage is seen as worthy news. |
However, when it comes to popular culture, the opinion is divided. Nearly two decades ago, Ashis Nandy, one of the finest intellectuals, argued that popular Indian cinema offers a "slum's eye view of politics." He explained how it recreated a remembered village in more than one sense. Mr. Nandy recorded how the screen becomes the site for modernising India in all its complexity, sophistry, |
naivete, and at times even vulgarity, where a dialogue between tradition and modernity is taking place. Hence, it becomes an editorial obligation to look at a phenomenon like Kabali which generated not just nationwide interest but became an international curiosity too. The news about Kabali was one of the biggest entertainment news in most of the South-East Asian countries and in Anglophone countries in Africa. If a particular popular cultural moment has captured the imagination of the people, can the newspaper afford not to cover it extensively? I would have been appalled if any of the major developments had been neglected by the newspaper to accommodate stories about Kabali. But this was the period when the paper had extensive coverage of not only domestic politics, economics and social issues, but also international developments including Brexit, Donald Trump's candidature, the botched up coup in Turkey and its bloody fallout, and terror attacks in Nice and Munich. |
'The news about Kabali was one of the biggest entertainment news in most of the South-East |
Asian countries and in Anglophone countries in |
Africa.' What do you understand by the words |
'Anglophone countries in Africa'? |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
The coverage of Kabali by the newspapers in India has attracted a vortex of complaints from their readers. |
Some went on to say that the reportage on Kabali reflected the fall in the standard of the newspapers. In some opinion the focus and hype created by the newspapers also reflect the fall in their standard of reporting. |
Another reader was of the firm opinion that the media hype surrounding the film would have a debilitating influence on schoolchildren. |
A newspaper is a form of common good. The plurality and multiplicity of issues it covers gives it a social role. |
While politics, international relations, security affairs, economics, and policy debates are seen as topics that have a public interest component, many fail to understand the multiple strands that make up our cultural fabric. There seems to be a hierarchy where high culture, especially classical forms, is accorded respectability and its reportage is seen as worthy news. |
However, when it comes to popular culture, the opinion is divided. Nearly two decades ago, Ashis Nandy, one of the finest intellectuals, argued that popular Indian cinema offers a "slum's eye view of politics." He explained how it recreated a remembered village in more than one sense. Mr. Nandy recorded how the screen becomes the site for modernising India in all its complexity, sophistry, |
naivete, and at times even vulgarity, where a dialogue between tradition and modernity is taking place. Hence, it becomes an editorial obligation to look at a phenomenon like Kabali which generated not just nationwide interest but became an international curiosity too. The news about Kabali was one of the biggest entertainment news in most of the South-East Asian countries and in Anglophone countries in Africa. If a particular popular cultural moment has captured the imagination of the people, can the newspaper afford not to cover it extensively? I would have been appalled if any of the major developments had been neglected by the newspaper to accommodate stories about Kabali. But this was the period when the paper had extensive coverage of not only domestic politics, economics and social issues, but also international developments including Brexit, Donald Trump's candidature, the botched up coup in Turkey and its bloody fallout, and terror attacks in Nice and Munich. |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
The coverage of Kabali by the newspapers in India has attracted a vortex of complaints from their readers. |
Some went on to say that the reportage on Kabali reflected the fall in the standard of the newspapers. In some opinion the focus and hype created by the newspapers also reflect the fall in their standard of reporting. |
Another reader was of the firm opinion that the media hype surrounding the film would have a debilitating influence on schoolchildren. |
A newspaper is a form of common good. The plurality and multiplicity of issues it covers gives it a social role. |
While politics, international relations, security affairs, economics, and policy debates are seen as topics that have a public interest component, many fail to understand the multiple strands that make up our cultural fabric. There seems to be a hierarchy where high culture, especially classical forms, is accorded respectability and its reportage is seen as worthy news. |
However, when it comes to popular culture, the opinion is divided. Nearly two decades ago, Ashis Nandy, one of the finest intellectuals, argued that popular Indian cinema offers a "slum's eye view of politics." He explained how it recreated a remembered village in more than one sense. Mr. Nandy recorded how the screen becomes the site for modernising India in all its complexity, sophistry, |
naivete, and at times even vulgarity, where a dialogue between tradition and modernity is taking place. Hence, it becomes an editorial obligation to look at a phenomenon like Kabali which generated not just nationwide interest but became an international curiosity too. The news about Kabali was one of the biggest entertainment news in most of the South-East Asian countries and in Anglophone countries in Africa. If a particular popular cultural moment has captured the imagination of the people, can the newspaper afford not to cover it extensively? I would have been appalled if any of the major developments had been neglected by the newspaper to accommodate stories about Kabali. But this was the period when the paper had extensive coverage of not only domestic politics, economics and social issues, but also international developments including Brexit, Donald Trump's candidature, the botched up coup in Turkey and its bloody fallout, and terror attacks in Nice and Munich. |
Direction: Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. |
The coverage of Kabali by the newspapers in India has attracted a vortex of complaints from their readers. |
Some went on to say that the reportage on Kabali reflected the fall in the standard of the newspapers. In some opinion the focus and hype created by the newspapers also reflect the fall in their standard of reporting. |
Another reader was of the firm opinion that the media hype surrounding the film would have a debilitating influence on schoolchildren. |
A newspaper is a form of common good. The plurality and multiplicity of issues it covers gives it a social role. |
While politics, international relations, security affairs, economics, and policy debates are seen as topics that have a public interest component, many fail to understand the multiple strands that make up our cultural fabric. There seems to be a hierarchy where high culture, especially classical forms, is accorded respectability and its reportage is seen as worthy news. |
However, when it comes to popular culture, the opinion is divided. Nearly two decades ago, Ashis Nandy, one of the finest intellectuals, argued that popular Indian cinema offers a "slum's eye view of politics." He explained how it recreated a remembered village in more than one sense. Mr. Nandy recorded how the screen becomes the site for modernising India in all its complexity, sophistry, |
naivete, and at times even vulgarity, where a dialogue between tradition and modernity is taking place. Hence, it becomes an editorial obligation to look at a phenomenon like Kabali which generated not just nationwide interest but became an international curiosity too. The news about Kabali was one of the biggest entertainment news in most of the South-East Asian countries and in Anglophone countries in Africa. If a particular popular cultural moment has captured the imagination of the people, can the newspaper afford not to cover it extensively? I would have been appalled if any of the major developments had been neglected by the newspaper to accommodate stories about Kabali. But this was the period when the paper had extensive coverage of not only domestic politics, economics and social issues, but also international developments including Brexit, Donald Trump's candidature, the botched up coup in Turkey and its bloody fallout, and terror attacks in Nice and Munich. |
Direction: Give the synonyms of the words underlined in the sentences below. |
Direction: Give the synonyms of the words underlined in the sentences below. |
Direction: Give the meaning of the phrases/idioms used in the sentences below. |
Direction: Give the meaning of the phrases/idioms used in the sentences below. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions. |
Direction: Give the antonyms for the words underlined in the following sentences. |
Direction: Give the antonyms for the words underlined in the following sentences. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks as per subject-verb agreement. |
Direction: Fill in the blanks as per subject-verb agreement. |
In which of the following sentences the use of homonyms is correct? |
I: Your untimely work schedule will ail you someday. |
II: Ale was a common drink in olden days. |
Carefully read the statement given below and determine which of the given options supports the statement better. |
Statement: If you're a fitness walker, there is no need for a commute to a health club. Your neighbourhood can be your health club. You don't need a lot of fancy equipment to get a good workout either. All you need is a well-designed pair of athletic shoes. |
Given below are three statements followed by four conclusions. Read the statements carefully and decide which of the given conclusion/s logically follow/s from the given statements. |
Statements: |
I. Some answers are questions. |
II. Some questions are writers. |
III. All writers are poets. |
Conclusions: |
I. Some writers are answers. |
II. Some poets are questions. |
III. All questions are poets. |
IV. Some poets are answers. |
Direction: Read the given information carefully and answer the questions that follow: |
A, B, D, F, G, H and K are the seven members of a family. |
They belong to three generations. |
(i) There are two married couples belonging to two different generations. |
(ii) D is the son of H and is married to K. |
(iii) F is the granddaughter of B. |
(iv) G's father is the grandfather of A. |
(v) B's husband is the father-in-law of K. |
(vi) H has only one son. |
Direction: Read the given information carefully and answer the questions that follow: |
A, B, D, F, G, H and K are the seven members of a family. |
They belong to three generations. |
(i) There are two married couples belonging to two different generations. |
(ii) D is the son of H and is married to K. |
(iii) F is the granddaughter of B. |
(iv) G's father is the grandfather of A. |
(v) B's husband is the father-in-law of K. |
(vi) H has only one son. |
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