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8 Q: Select the most apt translation of this. sentence:
उसको यह कहने का अधिकार नहीं है।
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6392da5158400a550ddff6d3उसको यह कहने का अधिकार नहीं है।
- 1He should not say this.false
- 2He has no right to say this.true
- 3He did not have any right to say this.false
- 4He had no right to say this.false
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Answer : 2. "He has no right to say this. "
Q: Fill in the blank with the correct option from the options given below.
They are poor _____ happy.
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63494f5e1bfb042f96cb363fThey are poor _____ happy.
- 1sincefalse
- 2becausefalse
- 3buttrue
- 4thanfalse
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Answer : 3. "but"
Q:The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error.
They attend / a meeting / in Chicago / this weekend.
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64635accc899b466f44bb572- 1a meetingfalse
- 2this weekendfalse
- 3in Chicagofalse
- 4They attendtrue
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Answer : 4. "They attend"
Q: Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
Safe pair of hands
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64626a0e4f2cce9843382a26Safe pair of hands
- 1Miss an opportunityfalse
- 2Speak rashly without thinking carefullyfalse
- 3A secret or hidden advantagefalse
- 4A person who can be trusted to do something efficientlytrue
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Answer : 4. "A person who can be trusted to do something efficiently"
Explanation :
A person who can be trusted to do something efficiently. This idiom refers to someone reliable and trustworthy.
Q:Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been printed in bold to help you locate them, while answering some of the questions.
Among those suffering from the global recession are millions of workers who are not even included in the official statistics : urban recyclers – the trash pickers, sorters, traders and reprocesses who extricate paper, cardboard and plastics from garbage heaps and prepare them for reuse. Their work is both unrecorded and largely unrecognized, even though in some parts of the World they handle as much as 20% of all waste.
The World’s 15 million informal recyclers clean up cities, prevent some trash from ending in landfills and thus, reduce climate change by saving energy on waste disposal techniques like incineration. In the developed countries they are the preferred ones since they recycle waste much more cheaply and efficiently than governments or private corporations can. In the developing World, on the other hand, they provide the only recycling services except for a few big cities. But as recession hits the markets Worldwide, the price of scrap metal, paper and plastic has also fallen. Recyclers throughout the World are experiencing a sharp drop in income. Trash pickers and scrap dealers saw a decline of as much as 80% in the price of scrap from October 2007 to October 2009. In some countries scrap dealers have shuttered so quickly that researchers at the Solid Waste Management Association didn’t have a chance to record their losses. In Delhi, some 80% of families in the informal recycling business surveyed by an organization said they had cut back on “luxury foods,” which they defined as fruit, milk and meat. About 41% had stopped buying milk for their children. By this summer, most of those children, already malnourished, hadn’t had a glass of milk in nine months. Many of these children have also cut down on hours spent in school to work alongside their parents. Families have liquidated their most valuable assets – primarily copper from electrical wires – and have stopped sending remittances back to their rural villages. Many have also sold their emergency stores of grain. Their misery is not as familiar as that of the laid-off workers of big name but imploding, service sector corporation, but it is often more tragic. Few countries have adopted emergency measures to help trash pickers. Brazil, for one, is providing recyclers, or “catadores,” with cheaper food, both through arrangements with local farmers and by offering food subsidies. Other countries, with the support of non-governmental organizations and donor agencies are following Brazil’s example. Unfortunately, most trash pickers operate outside official notice and end up falling through the cracks of programmes like these. In the long run, though, these invisible workers will remain especially vulnerable to economic slowdowns unless they are integrated into the formal business sector, where they can have insurance and reliable wages. This is not hard to accomplish. Informal junk shops should have to apply for licences, and governments should create or expand doorstep waste collection programmes to employ trash pickers. Instead of sorting through haphazard trash heaps and landfills, the pickers would have access to the cleaner scrap that comes from households.
The need of the hour, however, is a more immediate solution. An efficient but temporary solution would be for governments where they’d have to pay a small subsidy to waste dealers so they could purchase scrap from trash pickers at about 20% above the current price. This increase, if well advertised and broadky utilized, would bring recyclers a higher price and eventually bring them back from the brink. Trash pickers make our cities healthier and more liveable. We all stand to gain by making sure that the work of recycling remains sustainable for years to come.
Which of the following is intended in the given passage?
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618a134fe3b7b7409260e7c8Among those suffering from the global recession are millions of workers who are not even included in the official statistics : urban recyclers – the trash pickers, sorters, traders and reprocesses who extricate paper, cardboard and plastics from garbage heaps and prepare them for reuse. Their work is both unrecorded and largely unrecognized, even though in some parts of the World they handle as much as 20% of all waste.
The World’s 15 million informal recyclers clean up cities, prevent some trash from ending in landfills and thus, reduce climate change by saving energy on waste disposal techniques like incineration. In the developed countries they are the preferred ones since they recycle waste much more cheaply and efficiently than governments or private corporations can. In the developing World, on the other hand, they provide the only recycling services except for a few big cities. But as recession hits the markets Worldwide, the price of scrap metal, paper and plastic has also fallen. Recyclers throughout the World are experiencing a sharp drop in income. Trash pickers and scrap dealers saw a decline of as much as 80% in the price of scrap from October 2007 to October 2009. In some countries scrap dealers have shuttered so quickly that researchers at the Solid Waste Management Association didn’t have a chance to record their losses. In Delhi, some 80% of families in the informal recycling business surveyed by an organization said they had cut back on “luxury foods,” which they defined as fruit, milk and meat. About 41% had stopped buying milk for their children. By this summer, most of those children, already malnourished, hadn’t had a glass of milk in nine months. Many of these children have also cut down on hours spent in school to work alongside their parents. Families have liquidated their most valuable assets – primarily copper from electrical wires – and have stopped sending remittances back to their rural villages. Many have also sold their emergency stores of grain. Their misery is not as familiar as that of the laid-off workers of big name but imploding, service sector corporation, but it is often more tragic. Few countries have adopted emergency measures to help trash pickers. Brazil, for one, is providing recyclers, or “catadores,” with cheaper food, both through arrangements with local farmers and by offering food subsidies. Other countries, with the support of non-governmental organizations and donor agencies are following Brazil’s example. Unfortunately, most trash pickers operate outside official notice and end up falling through the cracks of programmes like these. In the long run, though, these invisible workers will remain especially vulnerable to economic slowdowns unless they are integrated into the formal business sector, where they can have insurance and reliable wages. This is not hard to accomplish. Informal junk shops should have to apply for licences, and governments should create or expand doorstep waste collection programmes to employ trash pickers. Instead of sorting through haphazard trash heaps and landfills, the pickers would have access to the cleaner scrap that comes from households.
- 1To highlight the domination of the big-name service industry corporations in the scrap dealing businessfalse
- 2To highlight various factors responsible for the prevailing malnutrition in children of the informal recyclersfalse
- 3To suggest the steps which can help the anguished recyclersfalse
- 4To explain the measures which can be taken in order to make recycling more energy efficienttrue
- 5None of thesefalse
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Answer : 4. "To explain the measures which can be taken in order to make recycling more energy efficient"
Q: A sonnet usually contains
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624581b7a008a64dd39a3a36- 1eight linesfalse
- 2twelve linesfalse
- 3six linesfalse
- 4fourteen linestrue
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Answer : 4. "fourteen lines "
Q: Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the given word.
"DEMOLISH"
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6322f767e3985052c811d9fe- 1Abolishfalse
- 2Constructtrue
- 3Cherishfalse
- 4Obstructfalse
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Answer : 2. "Construct"
Q:In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.
A raptor’s day begins soon after dawn. They (1)______ their wings for a quick warm-up and are ready for the hunt. Nature (2)______ these birds so well that they do not need to hunt every day. By (3)______ a good kill on a particular day, the larger raptor can go without hunting (4)______ two or three weeks. These predators can do without regular meals. This helps them to (5)______ if there is bad weather or lack of food.
Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank number 3.
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64ca39f0a4dbfb486be34b15- 1takingfalse
- 2havingfalse
- 3makingtrue
- 4doingfalse
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