Choose the correct option:
 Notices should be

India and 25 other countries agreed to the Copenhagen Accord even as other developing countries accepted it as an irreversible decision later. The Accord came out of__(a)___ bargaining lasting almost 20 hours among ___(b)___ of governments of some of the most__(c)__ countries of the world. At the__(d)__of the day on Saturday, India___(e)__ to have given ground on some issues but blocked intrusion on other red lines. It had become evident within the first week of the talks that the best the emerging and praiseworthy economies of the developing world were going to do was to defend the existing economic resource sharing regimes.

Fill the blank at (b).

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
If the census tells us that India has two or three hundred languages, it also tells us, I believe, that Germany has about fifty or sixty languages. I do not remember anyone pointing out this fact in proof of the disunity or disparity of Germany. As a matter of fact, a census mentions all manner of petty languages, sometimes spoken by a few thousand persons only; and often dialects are classed for scientific purposes as different languages. India seems to me to have surprisingly few languages, considering its area. Compared to the same area in Europe, it is far more closely allied in regard to language, but because of widespread illiteracy, common standards have not developed and dialects have formed. The principal languages of India are Hindustani (of the two varieties, Hindi and Urdu), Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. If Assamese, Oriya, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Pushtu and Punjabi are added, the whole country is covered except for some hill and forest tribes. Of these, the Indo-Aryan languages, which cover the whole north, centre and west of India, are closely allied; and the southern Dravidian languages, though different, have been greatly influenced by Sanskrit, and are full of Sanskrit words. 

ln the question given below choose the word most opposite in meaning to the given word and mark your answer.
Stridency 

Fill in the blanks in the passage below with the appropriate word from the options.
The happiest person is the one who enjoys what life offers. ...(1)... age has its pleasures and its pains. Old age has always been thought of as the ... (2)... age to be. But it is not ... (3)... for the old to be unhappy. With old age should come... (4)... and the ability to guide others with ... (5)... wisely given. The old can have the joy of seeing their... (6).. making progress in life. They can watch their grandchildren .(7)... up around them. If... (8). .. life has been a useful one, they can feel the happiness of having come through the ...(9)... of life …. (10).

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A vexed problem facing us is the clamour to open more colleges and to reserve more seats for backward classes. But it will be a sheer folly to expand such facilities recklessly without giving any thought to the quality of education imparted. If admissions are made far more selective, it will automatically reduced the number of entrants. This should apply particularly colleges, many of which are little more than degree factories. Only then can the authorities hope to bring down the teacher-student ratio to manageable proportion. What is more, teachers should be given refresher courses, every summer to brush up their knowledge. Besides, if college managements increase their library budget it will help both the staff and the to new students a great deal. 
At the same time, however, it will be unfair to deny college education to thousands of young men and women, unless employers stop insisting on degrees even for clerical jobs. For a start, why can't the Government disqualify graduates from securing certain jobs, say class III and IV posts? Once the link between degrees and jobs is severed at least in some important departments, in will make young people think twice before joining college. 

The author is in favor of restricting college admissions – 

Direction: - In the question read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in it. the error, if any will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is (D). (Ignore errors of punctuation, if any.)
The various consequences of (A)/ the decision taken by the (B)/ fiancé ministry was not foreseen by the bureaucrats. (C) No error.

Select the most appropriate one-word substitution for the given words.

A government by the nobles

Direction: In the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word as your answer.

Awakened