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Answer : 3. "Put the cat among pigeons"

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Fill in the blanks by choosing an appropriate alternative. 

Neither his sister nor his friend………………………….alive. 

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    is
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    were
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    are
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    will
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Answer : 1. "is "

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Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the underlined word in the following sentence.

You can sleep here but this bed is squalid and wet.

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    disorderly
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    uncomfortable
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    clean
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    painful
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Answer : 3. "clean"

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Read the passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.

Our awareness of time has reached such a pitch of intensity that we suffer acutely whenever our travels take us into some corner of the world where people are not interested in minutes and seconds. The unpunctuality of the orient, for example is appalling to those who come freshly from a land of fixed meal-times and regular train services. For a modern American or Englishman, waiting is a psychological torture. An Indian accepts the blank hours with linked together by amazingly sensitive, near-instantaneous communications. Human work will move out of the factory and mass office into the community and the home. Machines will be synchronized, as some already are, to the billionth of a second; men will be de-synchronized. The factory whistle will vanish. Even the clock, “the key machine of the modern industrial age” as Lewis Mumford called it a generation ago, will lose some of its power over humans, as distinct from purely technological affairs. Simultaneously, the organisation needed to control technology shift from bureaucracy to Ad-hocracy, from permanence to transience, and from a concern with the present to a focus on the future.
 In such a world, the most valued attributes of the industrial age become handicaps. The technology of tomorrow requires not millions of lightly lettered men, ready to work in unison at endlessly repetitive jobs, it requires not men who take orders in unblinking fashion, aware that the price of bread is mechanical submission to authority, but men who can make critical judgments, who can weave their way through novel environments, who are quick to spot new relationships in the rapidly changing reality. It requires men who, in C.P. Snow’s compelling terms, “have the future in their bones”.

The future man, according to this passage, must be

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    most adaptative and intelligent.
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    most capable of dealing with the changing reality.
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    more concerned with the present than the future.
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    trained and obedient.
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Answer : 2. "most capable of dealing with the changing reality."

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Read the following passage carefully and give the answer of following questions.

Art both reflects and interprets the notion that produced it. Portraiture was the dominant theme of British painting up to the end of the eighteenth century because of a persistent demand for it. It would be unfair to say that human vanity and pride of possessions were the only reasons for this persistent demand, but certainly these motives played their part in shaping the course of British painting. Generally speaking, it is the artist's enthusiasm that accounts for the vitality of the picture, but it is the client who dictates its subject-matter. The history of national enthusiasms can be pretty accurately estimated by examining the subject-matter of a nation's art.
 There is one type of subject which recurs again and again in British painting of the late eighteenth century and the jart half of the nineteenth and which is hardly met with in the jart of any other country ---- the sporting picture, or rather the picture in which a love of outdoor life is directed into the channel of sport. The sporting picture is really an extension of the conversation piece. In it the emphasis is even more firmly based on the descriptive side of painting. It made severe demands on the artist and it must be-confessed that painters capable of satisfying these demands were rare. The ability to paint a reasonably convincing landscape is not often combined with the necessary knowledge of horses and dogs in movement and the power to introduce a portrait when necessary. To weld such diverse elements into a satisfactory aesthetic unity requires exceptional ability. It is not surprising, therefore, that while sporting pictures abound in England, especially in the private collections of country squires, not many of them are of real importance as works of art. What makes the sporting picture worth noting in, a history of British painting is the fact that it is as truly indigenous and as truly popular a form of art in England as was the religious ikon in Russia.

The vitality of the picture depends on

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    the strength of the artist
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    the incentive given to him for his work
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    the persistent demand for his work
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    the enthusiasm of the artist
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Answer : 4. "the enthusiasm of the artist"

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Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.

A person who admires himself or herself too much, especially their appearance

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    Narcissist
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    Egoist
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    Selfish
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    Dictator
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Answer : 1. "Narcissist "
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A narcissist is an individual characterized by excessive self-love, vanity, and a preoccupation with one's own appearance and achievements

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Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

In space it is possible to identify and ________ some unique characteristics of human physiology and biology.

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    isolate
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    excess
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    replete
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    partition
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Answer : 1. "isolate"

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