A rod of length 85 m is divided into two parts if the first part of the rod is 2/3 of the second part then the larger part (in metres) is.

What, one wonders, is the lowest common denominator of Indian culture today? The attractive Hema Malini ? The songs of Vinidh Barati? The attractive Hema Malini? The sons of Vinidh Barati?
Or the mouth-watering Masala Dosa? Delectable as these may be, each yield pride of place to that false (?) symbol of a new era-the synthetic fibre. In less than twenty years the nylon sari and the terylene shirt have swept the countryside, penetrated to the farthest corners of the land and persuaded every common man, woman and child that the key to success in the present day world lie in artificial fibers: glass nylon, crepe nylon, tery mixes, polyesters and what have you. More than the bicycles, the wristwatch or the transistor radio, synthetic clothes have come to represent the first step away form the village square. The village lass treasures the flashy nylon sari in her trousseau most delay; the village youth gets a great kick out of his cheap terrycot shirt and trousers, the nearest he can approximate to the expensive synthetic sported by his wealthy citybred contemporaries. And the Neo-rich craze for ‘phoren’ is nowhere more apparent than in the price that people will pay for smuggled, stolen, begged borrowed second hand or thrown away synthetics. Alas, even the uniformity of nylon.

The tone of the passage is –

Pick out the correct sentence from those given below: 

(A) She rubbed her eyes hardly.
(B) She hardly rub her eyes.
(C) She rubbed hardly her eyes.
(D) She rubbed her eyes hard. 

Directions : In these questions , a part of the sentence is given in bold . Below are given alternatives to the bold part at (A) , (B) and (C) which may improve the sentence . Choose the correct alternative . In case no improvement is needed you answer is (D ) .

The research study is an eye opener and attempts to acquaint us with the problems of the poor nations. 

In each of the following sentences, an idiomatic expression or a proverb. Select the  alternatives which best describes its use in the sentence.
Mrs. Nayak opened the discussion on the ‘alarming rate of poverty in India’.

In the following question below are given some statements followed by some conclusions. Taking the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts, read all the conclusions and then decide which the given conclusion logically follows the given statements. 

Statement: 

All cups are plate. 

No plate is a shop. 

Conclusion: 

I. No cup is a shop. 

II. No shop is a plate. 

Which of the following was Indian’s first mapping satellite?