Fill in the blanks in the passage below with the appropriate word from the options.
The king of Rampur was not (1)........The following story proves that. Once he paid a (2) ......... to a town away from his capital.
The king's staff governing the town welcomed the king. As per the King's desire a (3)....... of the renowned people of the town was called at night. The people (4)...... the king and bestowed their praise on him and all sat down to listen to (5)....... the king had to tell them.

Fill in the blank in (3).

Identify the best way to improve the Bold part of the given sentence. If there is no improvement required, select ‘no improvement’-

The government can see scarcely any valid reason to launch an inquiry.

Directions: In question four alternatives are given for the Idiom/Phrase underlined in the sentences. Choose the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase and mark it is the Answer Sheet.

A man of straw

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.

Monotonous

Fill in the blanks by choosing an appropriate alternative. 

The committee comprises …………………………. men of widely different views.

In each of the following questions, sentences are given with blanks to be filled in with an appropriate word (s). Four alternatives are suggested for each question. Choose the correct alternative out of the four and indicate your choice for the correct answer.

Each of the children ………………. given a miniature flag on National day.

Identify the segment in the sentence which contains the grammatical error.

Aanya’s class teacher and her friends congratulates her warmly when she won the inter school debate and brought the trophy to the school.

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

The author's main objective in writing the passage seems to be-