Questions

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

We get sleepy and wake up, become hungry and thirsty at certain hours, ____________ force of habit. We form the habit of liking a certain chair, or nook, or corner, or path, or desk, and __________ seek this to the exclusion of all others. We ______________ use a particular pitch of voice and type of enunciation in speaking, and this becomes one of our characteristic marks; or we _________ the habit of using barbarisms or solecisms of language in __________, and these cling to us and become an inseparable part of us later in life.

desk, and __________ seek this to the exclusion

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

Throw the towel in

 In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

Learning (include) discovery, insight, understanding as well as accumulation of information.

.......... helps the eye to adjust the focal length of the lens.

The hormone that helps plants respond to drought is

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

______________________ the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the government had purchased assets of struggling banks with a view _______________ ensuring that they did not collapse taking ____________________ them the rest of the financial system. These assets __________________ later at a profit by the government! The U.S. government had acted smartly, while in the Indian case the banks now find themselves ______________________ with loans made by them to an individual with negative net worth.

(TARP), the government had purchased assets of struggling banks with a view _______________

Calculate the distance (in cm) of the chord from the centre of the circle, if the chord of length 48 cm is drawn in the circle of radius 25 cm.

The first colony established by the English in north America was