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Answer : 1. "A"

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Choose the correct English translation of the following sentence from the options given below:
 मेरे स्टेशन पहुँचने से पहले गाड़ी जा चुकी थी।

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    The train had been left before I reached the station.
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    The train had left before I reached the station.
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    The train left already when I had reached the station.
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    The train has left when I had reached the station.
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Answer : 2. "The train had left before I reached the station."

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Directions: Read the following passage and answer the questions as directed.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all the rage these days. A recent article noted that ‘robots’ — shorthand for AI in the tabloids — will be able to write a fiction bestseller within 50 years. I suppose that would be shocking to me as a novelist if most fiction bestsellers were not already being written by ‘robots’. Or so one feels, keeping publishing and other vogues in mind: a bit of this, a bit of that, a dash of something else, and voila you have a bestseller! In that sense, perhaps the rise of AI will make us reconsider what we mean by human intelligence. This discussion has been neglected for far too long. Take my field: literature. The Chinese company, Cheers Publishing, lately offered a collection of poems written by a computer program. So, are poets, generally considered to be suicidal in any case, jumping off the cliffs in droves as a consequence?
 Well, this is a selection from one of the AI poems I found online: “The rain is blowing through the sea / A

bird in the sky / A night of light and calm / Sunlight / Now in the sky / Cool heart / The savage north wind

/ When I found a new world.”
 Yes, there are aspiring poets — and sometimes established ones — who write like this, connecting words centripetally or centrifugally to create an effect. I think they should have been pushed off literary cliffs a long time ago. Because this is not poetry; this is just the technique of assembling words like poetry. There is a difference between the intelligence required to write poetry and the skills required to write it. That poetic intelligence is lost without the required poetic skills, but the skills on their own do not (A)suffice either. The fact that lines like this, written by AI, can be considered poetry does not reflect on the intelligence of AI. It reflects on the intelligence of those readers, writers, critics, editors, publishers and academics who have not yet distinguished between gimmickry and mimicry on the one side and the actual freshness of a chiselled line on the other. But this is a small example. Surely, AI might also make (B)_____________, including that of considering something like IQ to be a sufficient index of human mental capacity! Because if we think that AI can replace human intelligence, then we are simply not thinking hard enough. (C) One of the major (1) activity here is that of considering (2) intelligence to be something (3) different from and raised above the (4) failures of living. This leads to the misconception that intelligence can be (D)___ to something else — say, a robot — without becoming something else. Human intelligence cannot be passed on to something else: What is “passed on” is always a different kind of ‘intelligence’. Even the arguments that AI — or, as in the past, robots — can enable human beings to lead a gloriously workless existence is based on a similar misconception. Because human intelligence is embedded in human existence, ‘work’ as human activity in the world is not something human beings can do without.

Which of the following words can replace the word given in bold in (A) without changing the meaning of the sentence?

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    disperse
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    squander
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    dissipate
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    serve
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    spread
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Answer : 4. "serve"

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Two statements with blanks have been given. These statements are followed by five alternatives. Choose the one which fits into the pair of statements.

I. I invested some money in savings_______
 II. The aim was to_____the group into a closely-knit teams.

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    documents
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    generate
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    provide
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    files
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    bond
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Answer : 5. "bond "

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it.
If the census tells us that India has two or three hundred languages, it also tells us, I believe, that Germany has about fifty or sixty languages. I do not remember anyone pointing out this fact in proof of the disunity or disparity of Germany. As a matter of fact, a census mentions all manner of petty languages, sometimes spoken by a few thousand persons only; and often dialects are classed for scientific purposes as different languages. India seems to me to have surprisingly few languages, considering its area. Compared to the same area in Europe, it is far more closely allied in regard to language, but because of widespread illiteracy, common standards have not developed and dialects have formed. The principal languages of India are Hindustani (of the two varieties, Hindi and Urdu), Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. If Assamese, Oriya, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Pushtu and Punjabi are added, the whole country is covered except for some hill and forest tribes. Of these, the Indo-Aryan languages, which cover the whole north, centre and west of India, are closely allied; and the southern Dravidian languages, though different, have been greatly influenced by Sanskrit, and are full of Sanskrit words. 

Which of the following statements is true according to the given passage? 

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    India has far too many languages.
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    India is a vast country with not too many languages.
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    India has as many languages as Europe does.
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    Indian languages are not as well developed as those of Europe.
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Answer : 2. "India is a vast country with not too many languages. "

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Parts of the following sentence have been given as options. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.
 Elizabeth beat her rival with the gold medal in the 2021 summer Olympics. 

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    with the gold medal in the
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    2021 summer Olympics
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    Elizabeth beat her rival
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    No error
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Answer : 1. "with the gold medal in the "

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Change from assertive to exclamatory.
The sunrise is very beautiful.

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    The sunrise is awesome!
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    How beautiful the sunrise is!
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    The sunrise is absolutely beautiful!
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    The sunrise was good.
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Answer : 2. "How beautiful the sunrise is!"

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