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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?

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

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

Choose the word that best defines the given phrases:-

To talk through one’s hat

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order

Due to poor organic matter

P-­in soil is below the required
Q­-incorporation, organic carbon
R­-level in most parts of India

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Three examples will

P-­suffice as evidence
Q­-of her backsliding
R­-on long­held positions

Among the pairs of rivers given below, which flow in the southern part of India?

Dissolving is best described as

It is difficult to fix a nail on a freely suspended wooden frame. Which law supports this statement?