Questions

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

We must urgently

P-ethics that respects, and responds
Q-humanely to, the strangers in our cities
R-and consciously develop a new

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Perhaps the wolf (was waiting) to spring upon him.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

There is a compelling case for privatising the airline and freeing (locked at) funds for education and health.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

It was hard to believe that she (were) dead for three months.

The boundary of which country does not seem to touch the Caspian sea?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Any bad habit must be nipped (on) the bud.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The yatra focussed

P-­for poor and
Q­-marginalised communities
R­-on access to development and dignity

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

It was a bittersweet moment for me when I found out that I had been selected for the Sakura Science Exchange programme, a Robotics and IoT workshop in Japan. A fully-funded opportunity of a lifetime. Fly off to Saitama without a care on the world, and all I had to do was put into practice what I love to do – computer science. The bitter part of the episode – that I would lose two weeks of IB education, an almost literal mountain to cover when I got back – was quickly forgotten when I envisioned myself programming robots in the country that gave us Anime and sushi! It was with the eagerness to have an extended vacation in an un-visited land, and the opportunity to learn more about a subject that I am passionate about, that I headed to the Kempegowda International Airport outside Bengaluru. Little did I know this would be the experience of a lifetime, more for the endearing values of the Japanese culture that made their mark on me than anything else. The first feature of Japanese society that called out to me was the Discipline. Walking into the Narita International Airport, used as I was to the noisy crowds back in India, I quite literally lost my breath to the sight that awaited me. Be it the security check or baggage claim, somehow there was a silence that felt right. Everyone went about their activities without any confusion. And, contrary to the bharatiya custom of lazy pot-bellied officials, every guard and all counter personnel did what they were supposed to do to ensure this flow was maintained.

What aspect of Japanese culture left a mark on the writer?