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Answer : 2. "B"

Q:

Select the most appropriate option to substitute the underlined segment in the given sentence. If there is no need to substitute it, select ‘No substitution required’.

Our new accountant fall short in my expectations.

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    falls short of
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    fall short on
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    No substitution required
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    falls short in
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Answer : 1. "falls short of"
Explanation :

(A) falls short of - The correct substitution for the underlined segment is "falls short of."

Q:

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

The cyber–world is ultimately ungovernable. This is alarming as well as convenient; sometimes, convenient because alarming. Some Indian politicians use this to great advantage. When there is an obvious failure in governance during a crisis they deflect attention from their own incompetence towards the ungovernable. So, having failed to prevent nervous citizens from fleeing their cities of work by assuring them of proper protection, some national leaders are now busy trying to prove to one another, and to panic-prone Indians, that a mischievous neighbour has been using the internet and social networking sites to spread dangerous rumours. And the Centre's automatic reaction is to start blocking these sites and begin elaborate and potentially endless negotiations with Google, Twitter and Facebook about access to information. If this is the official idea of prompt action at a time of crisis among communities, then Indians have more reason to fear their protectors than the nebulous mischief-makers of the cyber world. Wasting time gathering proof, blocking vaguely suspicious websites, hurling accusations across the border and worrying about bilateral relations are ways of keeping busy with inessentials because one does not quite known what to do about the essentials of a difficult situation. Besides, only a fifth of the 245 websites blocked by the Centre mention the people of the Northeast or the violence in Assam. And if a few morphed images and spurious texts can unsettle an entire nation, then there is something deeply wrong with the nation and with how it is being governed. This is what its leaders should be addressing immediately, rather than making a wrongheaded display of their powers of censorship.
 It is just as absurd, and part of the same syndrome, to try to ban Twitter accounts that parody despatches from the Prime Minister's Office. To describe such forms of humour and dissent as "misrepresenting" the PMO–as if Twitter would take these parodies for genuine despatches from the PMO — makes the PMO look more ridiculous than its parodists manage to. With the precedent for such action set recently by the chief minister of West Bengal, this is yet another proof that what Bengal thinks today India will think tomorrow. Using the cyber–world for flexing the wrong muscles is essentially not funny. It might even prove to be quite dangerously distracting.

The following is a list of statements made by the author of the above passage. Pick the odd one out

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    It is absurd to ban Twitter accounts that parody despatches from the Prime Minister’s Office.
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    Twitter take these parodies for genuine despatches from the PMO.
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    To describe such forms of humour as ‘misrepresenting’ the PMO makes the PMO look more ridiculous.
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    The Precedent for such action was set recently by the chief minister of West Bengal.
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Answer : 4. "The Precedent for such action was set recently by the chief minister of West Bengal."

Q:

Select the antonym of

pervert

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    virtuous
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    libertine
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    deviant
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    debauchee
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Answer : 1. "virtuous"

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Which is the most correct translation of-
 He had a narrow' escape. 

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    वह बच गया था।
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    वह इतना सा बच गया।
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    वह बाल-बाल बच गया।
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    वह थोड़े से कोने से बच गया।
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Answer : 3. "वह बाल-बाल बच गया। "

Q:

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

Looking back on those days I see myself as a kind of centaur, half boy, half bike, forever wheeling down suburban streets under the poincianas, on my way to football practice or the library or to a meeting of the little group of us, girls and boys, that came together on someone's verandah in the evenings after tea.
I might come across the Professor then on his after dinner stroll; and as often as not, he would be accompanied by my father, who would stop me and demand (partly, I thought, to impress the Professor) where I was off to or where I had been; insisting, with more than his usual force, that I come home right away, with no argument I spent long hours cycling back and forth between our house and Ross McDowell or Jimmy Larwood's, my friends from school, and the Professor's house was always on the route, I was always aboard and waiting for something significant to occur, for life somehow to declare it self and catch me up I rode my bike in slow circles or figures-of-eight, took it for sprints across the gravel of the park, or simply hung motionless in the saddle, balanced and waiting.

The boy's constant bike riding reflects his

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    longing for a simpler way of life
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    yearning for something exciting to occur
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    desire to escape from his father's influence
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    joy in being young and without responsibilities
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Answer : 2. "yearning for something exciting to occur"

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