She sent him kites. They came in a trim balsa wood box-light as paper but large. At Canning’s harbor, postmen admired the alien markings on its wrapper. ‘From where?’ asked a new recruit. The experienced ones smiled. Like a giant street sign, it rode on a cycle rickshaw, the hooting puller struggling to clear its delicate edges from the start of the dock. Then, it sat on the ferry, all tidy and proper held by a proud mailman. It crossed the Matla without spilling a drop on its canvas-brown cover neatly tied with black cord. Chattering kids formed a circle around it peasants gawked over their drooping shoulders, even the bearded sadhu abandoned contemplation of waves for a quick glance. It was a safe passage barring a few jabs from little grimy fingers checking the box for what was inside. At Shonal the landing was tricky-the swollen river had drowned the island’s meager jetty. Men formed a human chain on the slippery bank and the box passed from one pair of outstretched arms to another, pausing briefly at each transfer. When it reached the dry shore, an eager crowd cleared its way to yet another rickshaw. From there it moved smoothly through village paths lined with the swaying tamarind and neem, ignored by sleeping dogs, treated by more children, creaking slightly at uneven bends. His aunt received the box like a returning bride. Waiting with neighbors in front of their yellow-and-white home, the only one in cement and brick, she let the younger women welcome it indoors-to his room. There, it sat all afternoon in the cone of a shadow listening to the purr of mating cats, in the company of an unmade bed and a dresser full of knick-knacks, facing a painting of a rising sun over a flaming volcano. Entering the room, Snehamoy closed the door behind him, feeling faint from the heat and the day’s excitement. Fellow teachers arriving late had informed him of a certain box that bore his name -in English, along with markings in an alien alphabet-making its way over the Matla. Finishing his lecture, he had announced a snap test in arithmetic, giving him time to think. Exactly at four, after the bell had rung announcing the end of the school day, he had mounted his cycle and made his way back through the rustling trees. Once inside, he stood facing the box propped up by his bed like a timid visitor, then started unwrapping the canvas-brown cover just as impatiently as he had opened his wife’s first letter from Japan, twenty years ago, similarly marked with two alphabets.
According to the passage, which of the following options is true?
The correct answer is Snehamoy's gift was secured safely in a paper box, crossed the Malta river in a ferry and.
Which of the following statements does NOT hold good as per the passage?
The correct answer is D.
On the basis of the information given in the passage, what may be deduced as the most correct option?
The correct answer is A.
Parts of the given sentence have been given as options. One of them contains a grammatical error. Select the option that has the error. A university training enables a graduate seeing things as they are, and to disentangle a plethora of thoughts
The correct answer is a graduate seeing things as they are.
Identify the part of the sentence that has an error – I like to sit at the window for hours and see children playing in the park
The correct answer is And see children playing.
Each sentence contains four underlined phrases. Three of these phases have been correctly used, and one has been incorrectly used. Choose the phrase (from option) which best replaces the wrong phrases in the sentence. Explorers embody the finest spirit in human nature which is to seek new challenges, discover new worlds and create new frontiers and one such rare achievement of the indomitable spirit is the ascending of Mount Everest by Hillary and Tenzing.
The correct answer is the ascent.
Select the most appropriate set of options to fill in the blanks. Bill Gates dropped out from Harvard within a year, Then he formed Microsoft. "Microsoft's (A) is a computer on every desk and Microsoft software on every computer." Bill is a visionary and works very hard to (B) his vision. His belief in high intelligence and hard work had put him where he is today. He does not believe in mere luck or God's grace, but just hard work and (C) . His beliefs are so powerful that they have helped him increase his wealth and establish his (D) in the industry.
The correct answer is (A)vision (B) achieve (C)competitiveness (D) monopoly.
Select the most appropriate set of options to fill in the blanks. Mexico is home to more species of oak than any country in the world, though many of them are(1) . In the case of the arroyo oak, as it is known, the species now faces a particularly(2) problem. Though plenty of trees aged more than 100 years can be found, locals(3) that in recent years there had been no seedlings that have sprouted from their acorns in sight. For some reason, the trees had(4) stopped reproducing. Blank 1 A. threaten B. threatened C. threatens D. threatening. Blank 2 A. struggling B. troubling C. grieving D. agitating Blank 3 A. regarded B. recognized C. noticed D. caught Blank 4 A. commonly B. directly C. easily D. simply
The correct answer is 1-B (threatened), 2-B (troubling), 3-C, (noticed) 4-D (simply).
Choose the most appropriate set of idioms that would fit in the blanks and complete the text given here. Sadhguru, the famous mystic, made several attempts to improve the nation's rivers a few years back. The government of India (1) some of his ideas he had incorporated in the union budget. However, his solutions were not received well in (2) . After bearing these criticisms he decided not to provide any more solutions but to focus on the problem itself. His strongest message? We cannot (3) to the fact that soil is being rejected, whether it is concrete paving, denuding vegetation, use of chemicals etc. The soil is not being given the respect it deserves. He has now (4) of the politicians, the bureaucrats and the technocrats to find and execute solutions, if the mystics of their job and things may become missing. Of what good is the soul without the soul.
The correct answer is 1. Reflected upon 2. certain quarters 3. Turn a blind eye 4 put the ball in the court.
Choose the sentence in which the underlined idiom has been used appropriately. makes one think that she can't see the wood in the trees.
The correct answer is Marcus is so focused on product details that he can't see the wood for the trees when it.
Four idioms are given below. Choose their sequence that would fill in the blanks and complete the text here. Idioms: 1. A dead duck 2. Bring the house down 3. Full of beans 4. Dribs and drabs Instead of the big crowd we expected, people arrived in ______ at the musical night. Alpana Alam is a rising star and is usually able to ______. Even before the interval it was obvious that the event was ______. Despite all this, Alpana herself was ______.
The correct answer is 4213.
Given below is a paragraph with five sentences, which are presented in a jumbled order. Write down the best order which would form a meaningful, unified and coherent paragraph. A. We need to listen and act upon what birds are telling us, as they disappear ever faster of B. Birds truly are the canary in the coal mine – as indicators for the health of our planet, C. Conservation efforts have been successful at rescuing individual species in specific D. Bird populations are affected by the damage caused by human activity, from the E. Billions of birds have been lost in recent decades in North America and Europe alone, and
The correct answer is BDEAC.
For the four sentence (S1 to S4) paragraph below, sentences S1 and S4 are given. From P, Q, R and S, choose the appropriate sentences for S2 and S3 respectively. S1. Placebos are essential to the design of reliable clinical trials. S4. Red, Yellow and orange are associated with a stimulant effect, while blue and green are related to tranquilizing effect; says Dr. A. J. de Craen. P. Such studies have found that even the color of pills made a difference in placebo results. Q. Their once-surprising effect on participants has become the focus of many studies. R. Another argument says that by prescribing a placebo to placate a patient, the correct S. At one time, placebos were only used in experiments as a control
The correct answer is QP.
Identify the error in the sentence: The explosion in music consumption over the last century has made 'what you listen' an important personality construct.
The correct answer is has made 'what you listen'.
Each sentence in the given paragraph contains four underlined phrases. Three of these phrases have been correctly used, and one has been incorrectly used. Select the phrase from among the following options that best replaces the INCORRECT phrase in the sentence. The traditional craftsmen don't have access to a local manufacturing base, funds, design inputs and market which have brought our craftsmen and our traditional arts and crafts on the brink of extinction.
The correct answer is Has brought.
Parts of the given sentence have been given as options. One of them contains a grammatical error. Select the option that has the error. The major impact of drug abuse is on the brain, which consequentially affect every other aspect of life of the person addicted to drugs.
The correct answer is Is on the brain, which consequentially.
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