choose the option which best follows the paragraph:
Compared to the rest of India, the eastern States of West Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, the seven north-eastern States and Sikkim lag in almost all the measures of economic growth. Productivity in these States is low, infrastructure poor and employment opportunities meagre. Overall, the perception is that people of eastern India are lazy and unproductive.
Many factors play a part in the development of a region — its location, weather conditions, political leadership, availability of raw materials, etc. Eastern India is blessed with an abundance of mineral wealth — 93 per cent of India's iron ore, 84 per cent of its coal, 100 per cent of its kyanite, 70 per cent of its mica, 20 per cent of its limestone, 10 per cent of its manganese, 80 per cent of its tea and about 15 per cent of its crude oil.
Incorrect usuage:ASK A)Why don't you ask some of your friends along? B)Brad wouldn't have asked her out for a meal if he didn't like her. C)I asked him in for a cup of coffee.
choose the option which best follows the paragraph:
Compared to the rest of India, the eastern States of West Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, the seven north-eastern States and Sikkim lag in almost all the measures of economic growth. Productivity in these States is low, infrastructure poor and employment opportunities meagre. Overall, the perception is that people of eastern India are lazy and unproductive.
Many factors play a part in the development of a region — its location, weather conditions, political leadership, availability of raw materials, etc. Eastern India is blessed with an abundance of mineral wealth — 93 per cent of India's iron ore, 84 per cent of its coal, 100 per cent of its kyanite, 70 per cent of its mica, 20 per cent of its limestone, 10 per cent of its manganese, 80 per cent of its tea and about 15 per cent of its crude oil.
A food chain is somewhat a linear sequence of links in a food trophic species that eats no other species in the web and ends at a trophic species that is eaten by no other species in the web. A food chain differs from a food web, because the complex polyphagous network of feeding relations are aggregated into trophic species and the chain only follows linear monophagous pathways. A common metric used to quantify food web trophic structure is food chain length. In its simplest form, the length of a chain is the number of links between a trophic consumer and the base of the web and the mean chain length of an entire web is the arithmetic average of the lengths of all chains in a food web.
Which of the following can be concluded from the passage?
If a tiger and a zebra were in the food chain, a lion would be at a higher position than the zebra
Food chains and food webs differ from one another in the sense that the former is more complex
Food chains and food webs differ from one another in the sense that food webs are more complex.You can calculate the average length of a food web by adding the lengths of all the links and then dividing them by the total number of the links
You can calculate the length of a food web by adding the lengths of all the links in the web
You can calculate the length of a food chain by calculating the average length of all the chains
The following question consists of a certain number of sentences. Some sentences are grammatically incorrect or inappropriate. Select the option that indicates the grammatically correct and appropriate sentence(s).
Richard Fisher, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, dropped by our offices this week and relayed a remarkable fact: Some 37% of all net new American jobs since the recovery began were created at Texas.
It can be a lot of fun walking to an art supply store at the mall or to a local art and craft warehouse and selecting from the wide range of bright and vibrant colours.
Snowmobiles are a critical part of polar research as they allow us to travel from a central camp to sites up to 50 miles away.
Many a water colour artist insist on using only fine quality rag paper and board.
Twentieth Century philosophical thought has expressed itself for the most part through two great Movements: the phenomenological and the analytical.
Answer the question based on the passage given below.
The Dome project was conceived, originally on a somewhat smaller scale, under John Major's Conservative government, as a Festival of Britain or World's Fair-type showcase to celebrate the third millennium. The incoming Labour government elected in 1997 under Tony Blair greatly expanded the size, scope and funding of the project. It also significantly increased expectations of what would be delivered. Just before its opening, Blair claimed the Dome would be "a triumph of confidence over cynicism, boldness over blandness, excellence over mediocrity". In the words of BBC correspondent Robert Orchard, "the Dome was to be highlighted as a glittering New Labour achievement in the next election manifesto".
What was the political significance attached to the Dome project?
A paragraph is given below from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way.
Satire, always as sterile as it in shameful and as impotent as it is insolent, paid them that usual homage which mediocrity pays to genius - doing, here as always, infinite harm to the public, blinding them to what is beautiful, teaching them that irreverence which is the source of all vileness and narrowness of life, but harming the artist not at all, rather confirming him in the perfect rightness of his work and ambition.
Federer's fifth grand slam win prompted a reporter to ask whether he was the best ever. Federer is certainly not lacking in confidence, but he wasn't about to proclaim himself the best ever. “The best player of this generation, yes”, he said. “But nowhere close to ever. Just look at the records that some guys have. I'm a minnow.”
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(1) His win against Agassi, a genius from the previous generation, contradicts that.
(2) Sampras, the king of an earlier generation, was as humble.
(3) He is more than a minnow to his contemporaries.
(4) The difference between 'the best of this generation' and 'the best ever' is a matter of perception
Undoubtedly Gandhi's image will, like other titans of the 20th century, become used to sell ever more improbable items. It is in the nature of the modern age to co-opt greatness to peddle the mundane for exorbitant prices. But Gandhi's advice to be "the change you want to see in the world" is the moral slogan of everyone who seeks to alter the globe for the better – not least for President Obama, who has publicly acknowledged his debt to the Mahatma.
Undoubtedly Gandhi's image will, like other titans of the 20th century, become used to sell ever more improbable items. It is in the nature of the modern age to co-opt greatness to peddle the mundane for exorbitant prices. But Gandhi's advice to be "the change you want to see in the world" is the moral slogan of everyone who seeks to alter the globe for the better – not least for President Obama, who has publicly acknowledged his debt to the Mahatma.
Undoubtedly Gandhi's image will, like other titans of the 20th century, become used to sell ever more improbable items. It is in the nature of the modern age to co-opt greatness to peddle the mundane for exorbitant prices. But Gandhi's advice to be "the change you want to see in the world" is the moral slogan of everyone who seeks to alter the globe for the better – not least for President Obama, who has publicly acknowledged his debt to the Mahatma.
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