General Knowledge Questions

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

He spent a third

P­-was of any consequence
Q­-made sure that none of them
R­-of the time describing his tax proposals, but

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

If the screen (was any brighter), it would have been easier to read from the tablet.

The working principle of a washing machine is

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

In order to tone up

P : it should be

Q : the physical education programme,

R : reoriented and implemented

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

"Tryst with Destiny" was a speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, to the Indian Constituent Assembly in Parliament, on 14th August 1947. It is considered to be one of the greatest speeches of all times and to be a landmark oration that captures the essence of the triumphant culmination of the largely non­violent Indian independence struggle against the British Empire in India.

"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. Freedom and power bring responsibility. The responsibility rests upon the assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. We cannot encourage communalism or narrow­mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or in action.

To the people of India, whose representatives we are, this is no time for petty and destructive criticism, no time for ill will or blaming others. We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell".

The most dominant voice in the speech is

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

It has been a long (ago) I last saw you.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

P: It is also when the community or religion is used to further the political interests of the vested groups.
Q: But communal feelings start when one community thinks in a hostile manner towards the other communities.
R: It is also not being conscious of their own identities and doing something which pursues its interests.
S: Communalism is not thinking about their own communities.

Which of the following is the MOST SIMILAR in meaning to the given word?

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