Directions (1-15):
Rearrange the following five sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in
the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph and then answer
the questions given below.
Q1. (A) ambient air
pollution together globally every year.
(B) accounts for 34% or
2.4 million of the seven million premature deaths caused by household
and
(C) Southeast Asia region to aggressively address the double
burden of household and ambient (outdoor) air pollution,
(D) The
WHO has called upon member-countries in its
(E) saying the
region, which comprises India,
(a) DCEBA
(b) DCBEA
(c)
DBCEA
(d) DABCE
(e) DECBA
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S1. Ans.(a)
Sol. DCEBA
Q2. (A) I
must confess that I am intrigued by your invitation to me to join the
members of the Indo-Korean War Veterans
(B) was the Chairman and
General Thorat was the Commander of the Custodian Forces of
India.
(C) It is of course true that
(D) in welcoming the
new Ambassador from South Korea.
(E) I spent some few months of
my life in Panmunjom in my capacity as Alternate Chairman of the
Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission of which General Thimayya
(a)
ACBED
(b) ADCBE
(c) ADCEB
(d) ABCDE
(e) AEDCB
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S2. Ans.(c)
Sol. ADCEB
Q3. (A)
held talks against a classic Chinese landscape of gardens and lakes,
with and without aides.
(B) Indian and Chinese troops engaged in
a tense stand-off lasting 73 days.
(C) on the high Himalayan
plateau of Doklam on the borders of Bhutan, India and China,
overlooking the vital Siliguri Corridor connecting ‘mainland’
India to the Northeastern States,
(D) The optics were reassuring
and optimism about the outcome of these conversations was implied.
Only a year ago,
(E) For the duration of a day and a half, the
leaders of the world’s two most populous countries
(a)
ECBDA
(b) EDCBA
(c) EACDB
(d) EADCB
(e) EBCDA
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S3. Ans.(d)
Sol. EADCB
Q4. (A)
The authorities may claim that the situation is stable but the daily
litany of violence tells a different story.
(B) on different
planes across the country.
(C) The authorities need to analyse
why simultaneous upheavals are taking place
(D) Each day, a
concatenation of events and situations are contributing to feelings
of deep unease.
(E) Take internal security, for instance.
(a)
CAEDB
(b) CEBAD
(c) CDEAB
(d) CBEAD
(e) CBDEA
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S4. Ans.(e)
Sol. CBDEA
Q5. (A)
Strong patent protection is a crucial part of this process.
(B)
Transgenic technologies such as Bt cotton are an important part of
India’s cotton production arsenal.
(C) that fail when used
improperly, as was the case with Bollgard-2. The important thing for
India
(D) They are not infallible. But this is true of all
technologies, like antibiotics,
(E) is to keep incentivising the
development of such technologies and to use them properly.
(a)
BECDA
(b) BACDE
(c) BDAEC
(d) BCDAE
(e) BDCEA
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S5. Ans.(e)
Sol. BDCEA
Q6. (A)
It is not uncommon for batsmen
(B) of the supporting cast.
(C)
to finish as part
(D) who began their careers as leading
stroke-makers
(E) Age converts the carefree into the
careworn.
(a) ABCDE
(b) ACBDE
(c) ADCBE
(d)
ADEBC
(e) AECDB
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S6. Ans.(c)
Sol. ADCBE
Q7. (A)
and journalists are increasingly the targets of online smear
campaigns
(B) by the most radical nationalists, who vilify
them
(C) and even threaten physical reprisals.
(D) With
Hindu nationalists trying to purge all manifestations of
‘anti-national’ thought
(E) from the national debate,
self-censorship is growing in the mainstream media
(a) DEBCA
(b)
DEABC
(c) DBCEA
(d) DACBE
(e) DCBEA
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S7. Ans.(b)
Sol. DEABC
Q8. (A)
The business model of platform companies,
(B) It demands a more
transparent, trustworthy and accountable online ecosystem
(C) is
central to the crisis.
(D) which collect data for
monetisation,
(E) Hence, the EC recommendation focusses more on
the role of platform companies.
(a) ADCEB
(b) ADCBE
(c)
ABCED
(d) ACBDE
(e) AECDB
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S8. Ans.(a)
Sol. ADCEB
Q9. (A)
It has potentially sabotaged elections. Even as governments and
social media companies grapple with methods
(B) of countering
the publishing of fake news,
(C) a particularly alarming strain
has come into existence recently, in the Rana Ayyub case.
(D) It
has whipped up communal frenzy.
(E) Fake news has wreaked damage
several times over the last few years.
(a) EADCB
(b)
ECDBA
(c) EDCBA
(d) EDABC
(e) EBCDA
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S9. Ans.(d)
Sol. EDABC
Q10. (A)
This is a potential threat to anybody who has an online presence.
(B)
It has been proven that false news spreads faster and farther than
real news.
(C) there is absolutely no stopping them as they leap
from group to group within seconds.
(D) Any attempts at
correcting statements that are wrongly attributed to users will find
a much more limited audience and once the screenshots reach
WhatsApp,
(E) The damage to one’s reputation is immediate and
impossible to completely reverse.
(a) ABDCE
(b) ABCDE
(c)
ACDEB
(d) ADBCE
(e) AECDB
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S10. Ans.(a)
Sol. ABDCE
Q11. (A)
son get into the IIT in the future?
(B) what should I do to help
my six-year-old
(C) There was a question in Quora that went
something like,
(D) So, this is what our aspirations for our
six-year-olds have come to.
(E) I read that twice, and yes, that
was the question.
(a) CDEAB
(b) CBEAD
(c) CBAED
(d)
CAEDB
(e) CEABD
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S11. Ans.(c)
Sol. CBAED
Q12. (A)
and become responsible citizens?
(B) Financial success matters
but shouldn’t our children learn to respect nature
(C) on
raising compassionate and empathetic kids?
(D) We all want a
secure future for our progeny but wouldn’t the world become
(E)
a better place if we focussed half of our attention
(a)
DBCEA
(b) DACEB
(c) DCEAB
(d) DEABC
(e) DECBA
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S12. Ans.(e)
Sol. DECBA
Q13. (A)
and thus I fail as a ‘supposed to be’ wife. Silence is a bargain
for a happy life,
(B) happiness at least for one member.
(C)
Because I resist, I refuse, I think, I give views...
(D) That
doesn’t mean I’m the silent type.
(E) In fact, I’m the
loudest one in the house. And that is the root of all problems.
(a)
DCAEB
(b) DEABC
(c) DBCEA
(d) DECAB
(e) DACEB
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S13. Ans.(d)
Sol. DECAB
Q14. (A)
The contracting industry is a place where worlds collide.
(B)
Where the purity of physical effort by migrant labourers roasted by
the sun,
(C) I inherited an industrial engineering company that
was founded by my grandfather.
(D) delivers to the world around
them the comforts of modern infrastructure.
(E) Everything here
is centred on the basics. Basic needs, basic hopes, and basic
aspirations and expectations.
(a) CBDEA
(b) CADEB
(c)
CABDE
(d) CDEAB
(e) CEADB
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S14. Ans.(c)
Sol. CABDE
Q15. (A)
He was a calm boy, anchored by the recent acceptance of death and
detached from the inconsistent character of strangers.
(B) In
rural middle class homes, there is no time to mourn death.
(C)
Counter-measures are taken to manage the sharp shift in the
trajectory of the lives of the survivors.
(D) Fresh defences are
built to protect their dignity.
(E) Hopes are realigned into the
shadows of new breadwinners as they learn to cradle an uncertain
future on their still soft shoulders.
(a) ABCDE
(b)
ABDEC
(c) ACDEB
(d) AECDB
(e) ADCEB
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S15. Ans.(a)
Sol. ABCDE
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