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Question 1
Direction: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions that follow.
A) During this aging process, you had first heard statements such as: “You can’t ride your bicycle until you are seven” and, “You can’t drive a car until you’re 18”
B) But, you need to remember that part of you has an ageless mind and is quite oblivious to the physical ageing process – you just need to encourage it to overcome this excuse of being old.
C) The age excuse of being too old comes from an inclination to identify yourself with the number of trips you have made around the sun.
D) The age of your body can seem to be quite an obstacle on the road to changing long-held thinking habits.
E) Then at some point you discovered that you went from being not old enough to being too old.
A) During this aging process, you had first heard statements such as: “You can’t ride your bicycle until you are seven” and, “You can’t drive a car until you’re 18”
B) But, you need to remember that part of you has an ageless mind and is quite oblivious to the physical ageing process – you just need to encourage it to overcome this excuse of being old.
C) The age excuse of being too old comes from an inclination to identify yourself with the number of trips you have made around the sun.
D) The age of your body can seem to be quite an obstacle on the road to changing long-held thinking habits.
E) Then at some point you discovered that you went from being not old enough to being too old.
Which of the following will be the THIRD sentence?
Question 2
Direction: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions that follow.
A) During this aging process, you had first heard statements such as: “You can’t ride your bicycle until you are seven” and, “You can’t drive a car until you’re 18”
B) But, you need to remember that part of you has an ageless mind and is quite oblivious to the physical ageing process – you just need to encourage it to overcome this excuse of being old.
C) The age excuse of being too old comes from an inclination to identify yourself with the number of trips you have made around the sun.
D) The age of your body can seem to be quite an obstacle on the road to changing long-held thinking habits.
E) Then at some point you discovered that you went from being not old enough to being too old.
A) During this aging process, you had first heard statements such as: “You can’t ride your bicycle until you are seven” and, “You can’t drive a car until you’re 18”
B) But, you need to remember that part of you has an ageless mind and is quite oblivious to the physical ageing process – you just need to encourage it to overcome this excuse of being old.
C) The age excuse of being too old comes from an inclination to identify yourself with the number of trips you have made around the sun.
D) The age of your body can seem to be quite an obstacle on the road to changing long-held thinking habits.
E) Then at some point you discovered that you went from being not old enough to being too old.
Which of the following will be the SECOND sentence?
Question 3
Direction: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions that follow.
A) During this aging process, you had first heard statements such as: “You can’t ride your bicycle until you are seven” and, “You can’t drive a car until you’re 18”
B) But, you need to remember that part of you has an ageless mind and is quite oblivious to the physical ageing process – you just need to encourage it to overcome this excuse of being old.
C) The age excuse of being too old comes from an inclination to identify yourself with the number of trips you have made around the sun.
D) The age of your body can seem to be quite an obstacle on the road to changing long-held thinking habits.
E) Then at some point you discovered that you went from being not old enough to being too old.
A) During this aging process, you had first heard statements such as: “You can’t ride your bicycle until you are seven” and, “You can’t drive a car until you’re 18”
B) But, you need to remember that part of you has an ageless mind and is quite oblivious to the physical ageing process – you just need to encourage it to overcome this excuse of being old.
C) The age excuse of being too old comes from an inclination to identify yourself with the number of trips you have made around the sun.
D) The age of your body can seem to be quite an obstacle on the road to changing long-held thinking habits.
E) Then at some point you discovered that you went from being not old enough to being too old.
Which of the following will be the FOURTH sentence?
Question 4
Direction: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions that follow.
A) During this aging process, you had first heard statements such as: “You can’t ride your bicycle until you are seven” and, “You can’t drive a car until you’re 18”
B) But, you need to remember that part of you has an ageless mind and is quite oblivious to the physical ageing process – you just need to encourage it to overcome this excuse of being old.
C) The age excuse of being too old comes from an inclination to identify yourself with the number of trips you have made around the sun.
D) The age of your body can seem to be quite an obstacle on the road to changing long-held thinking habits.
E) Then at some point you discovered that you went from being not old enough to being too old.
A) During this aging process, you had first heard statements such as: “You can’t ride your bicycle until you are seven” and, “You can’t drive a car until you’re 18”
B) But, you need to remember that part of you has an ageless mind and is quite oblivious to the physical ageing process – you just need to encourage it to overcome this excuse of being old.
C) The age excuse of being too old comes from an inclination to identify yourself with the number of trips you have made around the sun.
D) The age of your body can seem to be quite an obstacle on the road to changing long-held thinking habits.
E) Then at some point you discovered that you went from being not old enough to being too old.
Which of the following will be the FIRST sentence?
Question 5
Direction: Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in a proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions that follow.
A) During this aging process, you had first heard statements such as: “You can’t ride your bicycle until you are seven” and, “You can’t drive a car until you’re 18”
B) But, you need to remember that part of you has an ageless mind and is quite oblivious to the physical ageing process – you just need to encourage it to overcome this excuse of being old.
C) The age excuse of being too old comes from an inclination to identify yourself with the number of trips you have made around the sun.
D) The age of your body can seem to be quite an obstacle on the road to changing long-held thinking habits.
E) Then at some point you discovered that you went from being not old enough to being too old.
A) During this aging process, you had first heard statements such as: “You can’t ride your bicycle until you are seven” and, “You can’t drive a car until you’re 18”
B) But, you need to remember that part of you has an ageless mind and is quite oblivious to the physical ageing process – you just need to encourage it to overcome this excuse of being old.
C) The age excuse of being too old comes from an inclination to identify yourself with the number of trips you have made around the sun.
D) The age of your body can seem to be quite an obstacle on the road to changing long-held thinking habits.
E) Then at some point you discovered that you went from being not old enough to being too old.
Which of the following will be the FIFTH (LAST) sentence?
Question 6
Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Question 7
Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Question 8
Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Question 9
Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Question 10
Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Question 11
Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Question 12
Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Question 13
Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Question 14
Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Question 15
Direction: In the following passage, there are blanks each of which has been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Even as world leaders and experts meet in Paris to work on a global climate deal to (6) greenhouse gas emissions, cities such as Delhi and Beijing are being (7) by increasing levels of smog. The deadly combination of air pollutants and fog has already forced Beijing to issue an orange alert – its second-highest response to smog – (8) people to stay indoors and (9) down hundreds of factories and construction sites. Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality this season isn’t much better. City doctors have (10)that unless urgent steps are taken, Delhi could (11) its own version of London’s Great Smog that claimed an estimated 4,000 lives in 1952. But despite levels of PM 2.5 – tiny particulate matter that get (12) deep inside one’s lungs – falling in the poor to very poor category in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, authorities here appear to be at a loss for solutions. Plus, steps taken by government such as the establishment of the national air quality index will have little (13) without a Beijing-like alert system. People need to be (14) on how to protect themselves on smog-heavy days. Given that children are highly susceptible to pulmonary ailments, schools too must remain shut when air quality drops (15) a certain point.
Find out the appropriate word in each case.
Question 16
Direction: In the given question, an idiom/phrase has been printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative that best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
It is such a tough situation here in the city; it is raining cats and dogs.
Question 17
Direction: In the given question, an idiom/phrase has been printed in bold in the sentence. Choose the alternative that best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
The commissioner advised the fugitives to turn in themselves to get some legal respite.
Question 18
Direction: In the following question, out of the given alternatives, select the idiom/phrase similar in meaning to the given word/phrase.
Far from
Question 19
Direction: In the given sentence, an idiom/phrase is printed in bold. Choose the option which best expresses its meaning.
We made the last train by the skin of our teeth.
Question 20
Direction: In the following question, out of the given alternatives, select the idiom/phrase similar in meaning to the given word/phrase.
Rule in
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