Questions

Choose the most appropriate answer:Serena Williams defeated__________ to win the women’s singles title of Australian Open 2015.

Who was known as Badshah Khan?

Who was awarded the 2017 Padma Bhushan Award in the field of Art-Music?

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

All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

The author believes that man's greatest and distinguishing ability is

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

A high degree of skill

A sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Passive/Active Voice.

She saw you and her.

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.

When the kerosene burned, the fuel in the tank below would be __________ pressure, and __________a small circular flame would appear in the burner.The valve had to be opened to let more kerosene vapour to the burner and pumping resumed. With the increase in pressure, the burner flame would spread _________ a loud noise. To lower the flame,the valve had to be _________ opened to reduce the pressure and then tightened until the desired flame size was achieved. _________ you wanted the flame to be bigger, you had to hit the piston again. Pump stoves are still in vogue.

and __________ a small circular flame

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

to leave a place suddenly or secretly.