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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

Implanting standards, right values, the science of good and evil are an essential part of education. Many forces thwart this to work, but two of the most serious hindrances to it are examinations and specialization. The examination system is both an opiate and a poison. It is an opiate because it lulls Man into believing that all is well when most is ill. It is a poison because it paralyses or at least slows down the natural activities of the healthy mind. Man finds himself a creature of unknown capacities in an unknown world, wants to learn what the world is like, what he should be and do in it. To help him in answering these questions is the one and only purpose of education. However, tests of progress are useful and necessary. Examinations are harmless when the examinee is indifferent to their result, but as soon as they matter, they begin to distort his attitude to education and to conceal its purpose. For disinterestedness is the essence of all good education and liberal education is impossible without it.

The examination system is an opiate because

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

the recently dead person in question

The pitch of a sound depends on its ____.

Which of the following contributes the maximum earning in Indian Railways?

In April 2017, the G20 Digital Ministerial Meeting on Digital Economy was held in which country?

Which of the following country’s national flag has a Dragon on it?

In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

He is now very old, yet grandfather still is the _______________ head of my extended family.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

A fool and his money are easily parted