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

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, sand and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of a world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth wide in amazement; the tube would fall off!

How to avoid the mask fogging up?

Choose the word which is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word:-

Refractory

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Disadvantage of wired telephone

P : due to the line breakage

Q : connection is the loss

R : of connectivity during disasters

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

This means that for

P-making a significant dent
Q-have to grow at a faster rate
R-in poverty, rural incomes

Atmosphere of Venus mostly contains which of the following gases? 

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

A significant number

P-­in the rural non-­farm sector
Q-­to be created
R­-of these jobs will have

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

It is hard to

P-­of some
Q­-miss the political significance
R­-of these beneficiaries

In India, the term ‘hot money’ is used to refer to