Directions: Below, a passage is given with five blanks labelled (A)- (E). Below the passage, five options are given for each blank. Choose the word that fits each blank most appropriately in the context of the passage, and mark the corresponding answer.

Tiny plastic particles washed off products like synthetic clothing and car tyres account for up to a third of the plastic polluting oceans, __ (A) __ eco-systems and human health, a top conservationist body warned. Unlike the __ (B) __ images of country-sized garbage patches floating in the oceans, the micro plastic particles that wash off textiles and roadways leave the waterways looking __ (C) __.

But they constitute a significant part of the “plastic soup” clogging our waters — accounting for between 15% and 31% of the estimated 9.5 million tones of plastic released into the oceans each year, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

In its report “Primary Micro plastics in the Oceans”, the IUCN found that in many developed countries in North America and Europe, which have __ (D) __ waste management, tiny plastic particles are in fact a bigger source of marine plastic pollution than plastic waste.

In addition to car tyres and synthetic textiles, such particles stem from everything from marine coatings and road markings, to city dust and the micro beads in cosmetics. “Plastic waste is not all there is to ocean plastics,” IUCN chief Inger Andersen said in a statement, insisting that “we must look far beyond waste management if we are to __ (E) __ ocean pollution in its entirety”.

Which of the following words most appropriately fits the blank labelled (D)?

The human shoulder joint is an example of a ______ joint.

At which place was the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit held recently?

Directions: Study the following information carefully and answer the questions that follow.
 Eight people – Aishwarya, Kavya, Surabhi, Sangeetha, Shruthi, Swathi, Anita and Meghana were born in different years 1983, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1996, 2000, 2006 and 2012 not necessarily in the same order. Kavya’s age is a multiple of 5. Three people were born between Kavya and Meghana. Swathi is born before Kavya, but she is not the eldest person. Four people were born between Swathi and Anita, who is not the youngest person. Surabhi was born just before Aishwarya. Only one person was born between Sangeetha and Shruthi. Sangeetha is not the youngest person.

Note: 

(1) All calculations are done with respect to the present year, 2021 assuming the month and date to be same as that of the years as mentioned above.
(2) Each person is assumed to born on the same date and same month of the respective years.

Who is the eldest person in the group?

Choose the word that means the same as the given word.

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Directions: Which of the following phrases given below in the options should replace the phrase that is underlined in the sentence to make it grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct and does not require any correction mark 'No correction required' as your answer.

Amazon Inc.'s self-driving vehicle unit, Zoox, has successful testing a robotaxi with employees as passengers on a public road.

In which year was the partition of Bengal carried out by the British Viceroy Lord Curzon?

Select the correct active form of the given sentence.

The man eating tiger will be captured tomorrow by the forest officers.