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Directions (1-4): Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow the passage. Some words may be highlighted to help you some of the questions.
Rise in salinity in the water system that makes the Indian Sunderbans has resulted in a decrease in population of the Ganges River Dolphins in the region.
A recent study covering 100 km of rivers and channels around the Sunderbans has revealed that the national aquatic animal is no longer sighted in the central and eastern parts of the archipelago. Only in the western part of Sunderbans, where the salinity is lower, could researchers find some evidence of the species.
The details of the study have been published in Journal of Threatened Taxa, in an article titled Possible Range Decline of Ganges River Dolphin Platanista Gangetica in Indian Sundarban. The paper, authored by Sangita Mitra and Mahua Roy Chowdhury, states that “sighting records in the present study reveal that distribution of GRD (Ganges River Dolphin) is influenced by the salinity level of the waterways”.
Q1. Which of the followings reflect the result of the study mentioned in the paragraph?
(a) None of the below
(b) The water system around the Sunderbans has a length of 100 km.
(c) Indian Sunderbans is an archipelago.
(d) Salinity level in the water system that makes the Indian Sunderbans has risen.
(e) Distribution of GRD (Ganges River Dolphin) is influenced by the salinity level of the waterways.
Q2. Which of the followings could be inferred from the noun-phrase ‘National Aquatic Animal’? Answer the question based on the information available in the whole passage.
(a) Turtle is not the national aquatic animal of India.
(b) If an animal is a nation animal, then it means that the population of that animal is large in number in that nation.
(c) National aquatic animal is same as national animal.
(d) Both Options (a) and (c)
(e) None of the above
Q3. In which of the following areas could researchers find GRD (Ganges River Dolphin)?
(a) Water system that makes the Indian Sunderbans
(b) Central parts of the Indian Sunderbans
(c) Western Parts of the Indian Sunderbans
(d) Eastern Parts of the Indian Sunderbans
(e) None of the above
Q4. Which of the following words are the SYNONYM of the word ‘reveal’?
(a) entitle
(b) mention
(c) wield
(d) divulge
(e) operate
Directions (5-8): Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow the passage. Some words may be highlighted to help you some of the questions.
The Union Cabinet on Friday, 28 December 2018 approved the ambitious Gaganyaan programme, which will send three Indian astronauts to space for up to seven days by 2022 at a cost of ₹10,000 crore.
The project was first announced by Prime Minster Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech this year. As part of the programme, two unmanned flights and one manned flight will be undertaken.
The first human space flight demonstration is targeted to be completed within 40 months of the sanction date. Prior to this, two unmanned flights in full complement will be carried out to gain confidence, the government said.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed the launch vehicle GSLV MK-III, which has the necessary payload capability to launch a three-member crew module in low earth orbit.
Q5. Which of the following purposes will be served by the two unmanned flights prior to the flight carrying humans?
(a) It is the will of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
(b) To show off to the world that the ISRO can launch three space flights.
(c) To be confident prior to sending humans into space.
(d) Options (a) and (b)
(e) None of the above
Q6. How many human space flight demonstrations will have been conducted by the ISRO prior to the Gaganyaan programme?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
(e) None of the above
Q7. How many days will Indian astronauts are expected to spend in space?
(a) Seven days
(b) Maximum three days
(c) Minimum four days
(d) Maximum seven days
(e) None of the above
Q8. Which of the following words is the SYNONYM of ‘complement’?
(a) accompaniment
(b) association
(c) relative
(d) ivory
(e) pointer
Directions (9-10): Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow the passage. Some words may be highlighted to help you some of the questions.
A U.K. tourist calling up the British High Commission in New Delhi to buy vegetarian sausages is among one of the more quirky requests made by Britons travelling abroad in 2018, authorities here said on Sunday.
The unnamed man’s vegetarian sausage hunt in India is on a list of top 10 requests, which the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) highlighted it could not help with, while stressing on the crucial consular and medical support it can offer its nationals abroad.
The man in New Delhi asking what time the British High Commission opened, as he had heard it sold vegetarian sausages and wanted to buy some, was ranked seventh on the list, which was topped by a caller from the U.S. asking which celebrity contestant had won the popular BBC show ‘Strictly Come Dancing’.
Other unusual requests included a man enquiring if there were vampires in Poland because a woman he met online asked what blood type he was before they met for their first date, and a caller in the Canary Islands wanted his hotel to be persuaded to give him a different room as a stray cat had “broken into” his existing one and urinated on his bed.
Q9. Which of the followings clearly describe the objective of the passage?
(I) To inform about the unconventional requests received by the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
(II) To stress on the crucial consular and medical support FCO can offer its nationals abroad.
(III) To inform about the plight of the consular staffs of the U.K. Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
(a) Only (III)
(b) Both (II) & (III)
(c) Only (I)
(d) All of (I), (II) and (III)
(e) None of (I), (II) and (III)
Q10. What was the rank of the request to buy vegetarian sausages in the list of quirky requests received by the FCO?
(a) First
(b) Seventh
(c) Third
(d) Ninth
(e) Fifth
Solution
Ans.1. (e)
Exp. Option (b) is factually incorrect. The paragraph mentions that the study covered 100 km length of rivers and channels around the Sunderbans. The paragraph made no statement on the length or the size of the water system that makes the Indian Sunderbans.
Option (c) was an already known fact and wasn’t discovered through the study. So, option (c) is also wrong.
Option (d) was something which might be FOUND in the study but was NOT the result of the study.
The answer to the question can be derived from the last clause of the last sentence of the last paragraph ‘distribution of GRD (Ganges River Dolphin) is influenced by the salinity level of the waterways’.
The study attempts to find out the relationship between the salinity level of the waterways and the distribution of GRD.
Among the given options, only information presented in the option (e) which illustrates the relationship between GRD (Ganges River Dolphin) and salinity level of waterways deserves to be the RESULT of the study mentioned in the study.
Hence, option (e) is the correct answer.
Ans.2.(a)
Exp. The phrase ‘national aquatic animal’ is a small phrase. The passage suggests that the Ganges River Dolphins is the national aquatic animal.
Neither the passage nor the phrase provides any suggestions to the criteria for an animal to be national animal or whether national aquatic animal is same as national animal.
From above, it can be deduced that option (a) is the correct answer.
Ans.3.(c)
Exp. The answer to the question can be found from the last sentence of the second paragraph
‘Only in the western part of Sunderbans, where the salinity is lower, could researchers find some evidence of the species’.
The usage of the word ‘only’ with the phrase ‘western part of Sunderbans’ along with the latter part of the sentence reveals that among the given options, GRD could be found in the Western Parts of the Indian Sunderbans.
Hence, option (c) is the correct answer.
Ans.4.(d)
Exp. Entitle [verb] means ‘(often be entitled to) Give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something;
Divulge [verb] means ‘make known (private or sensitive information)’;
From above, it could be understood that the word ‘divulge’ has the meaning which is SIMILAR to the meaning of the word ‘reveal’.
Hence, option (d) is the correct answer.
Ans.5.(c)
Exp. The answer to the question can be derived from the last sentence of the second-last paragraph ‘Prior to this, two unmanned flights in full complement will be carried out to gain confidence…’.
So, the purpose served by the two unmanned flights prior to the flight carrying humans is for the ISRO to be confident prior to sending humans into space.
Hence, option (c) is the correct answer.
Ans.6. (e)
Exp. The answer to the question can be derived from the starting phrase of the first sentence of the third paragraph ‘the first human space flight demonstration’.
So, prior to Gaganyaan Programme, India or ISRO has conducted zero human space flight demonstrations.
Hence, option (e) is the correct answer.
Ans.7.(d)
Exp. The answer to the question can be derived from a phrase present in the first sentence of the first paragraph ‘will send three Indian astronauts to space for up to seven days by 2022’.
Please take note of the phrase ‘up to’. It means seven days are the maximum number of days which the Indian astronauts are expected to spend in space.
Hence, option (d) is the correct answer.
Ans.8.(a)
Exp. Complement [noun] means ‘a thing that contributes extra features to something else in such a way as to improve or emphasize its quality’;
Accompaniment [noun] means ‘a musical part which supports or partners an instrument, voice, or group; something that supplements or complements something else’.
Relative [noun] means ‘a person connected by blood or marriage’;
Ivory [noun] means ‘a hard creamy-white substance composing the main part of the tusks of an elephant, walrus, or narwhal, often (especially formerly) used to make ornaments and other articles’;
Pointer [noun] means ‘a hint as to what might happen in the future’;
From above, it could be understood that the word ‘accompaniment’ is the SYNONYM of ‘complement’.
Hence, option (a) is the correct answer.
Ans.9.(c)
Exp. The answers to the question can be derived from the presence of phrases like ‘among one of the more quirky requests’, ‘is on a list of top 10 requests, which the U.K. FCO highlighted…’ and ‘Other unusual requests…’
Clearly, (I) is the correct answer.
Hence, option (c) is the correct answer.
Ans.10.(b)
Exp. The answer to the question can be found from the third paragraph: ‘The man in New Delhi asking what time the British High Commission opened, as he had heard it sold vegetarian sausages and wanted to buy some, was ranked seventh on the list…’
Hence, option (b) is the correct answer.
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