English Questions

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".

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This may be essential at

P-where the market fails to deliver
Q-swath of an economy
R-times, but there is a wide

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‘A written account of the life of an individual’

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In developing countries today

P : urban health conditions

Q : than rural health conditions

R : seem to be better

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The arbitration
P - ­dented China's interests
Q - ­in multiple ways
R - ­award has, nevertheless,

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A dissent in a court

P-­the intelligence of a future day
Q­-to the brooding spirit of law, to
R­-of last resort is an appeal

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The yatra focussed

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

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The threat of an epidemic caused great alarm and