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

 

I don’t know whether the Madras Photographic Society has anything to do with the recently-publicised Chennai Photo Biennales, the first last year and the next scheduled for 2018, but participant or not, it certainly deserves a bow for being the country’s first photographic society. Its founder was an Army doctor, Alexander Hunter. The Society was founded in 1857, shortly after Lord Canning arrived as Governor-General. Canning and Lady Canning, both photography enthusiasts, were responsible for creating the famed Government series, The People of India. Hunter had still earlier, in 1850, privately started the Madras School of Arts. The School, taken over by Government in 1852, moved from Popham’s Broadway to Poonamallee High Road. There, he and an eight-member committee revised the syllabus, offering two streams, Industrial and Artistic. Hunter was put in charge of the institution, renamed the Government School of Industrial Arts, in 1855. It was the first formal school of Art in the country. In it, Hunter introduced Photography.

Hunter retired in 1868, to be succeeded by Robert Chisholm. No mean photographer, Hunter encouraged the School, it is now the Government College of Arts and Crafts to build up a photographic collection. Unfortunately, little is left of his work, especially the monuments of South India captured by Government photographer Linnaeus Tripe and his assistant C Iyahsawmi. Hunter himself did a series of pictures of the ‘Seven Pagodas’ (Mahabalipuram) and worked with his wards on photographs of the five hill tribes of the Nilgiris. It was at a prize-giving of the School that Hunter urged the Governor to provide it more suitable premises. They came up on the PH Road site in Chisholm’s time and to his design — and remain there.

 

Who was in charge of the Government School of Industrial Arts before Chisholm?

A) Hunter B) Lady Canning
C) Iyahsawmi D) Tripe
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Hunter

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Select the antonym of

appalling

A) reassuring B) ghastly
C) dire D) mean
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) reassuring

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Select the synonym of

conspiracy

A) fidelity B) plot
C) ardour D) zeal
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) plot

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public abstract interface Frobnicate { public void twiddle(String s); } 

Which is a correct class?

A) public abstract class Frob implements Frobnicate { public abstract void twiddle(String s) { } } B) public abstract class Frob implements Frobnicate { }
C) public class Frob extends Frobnicate { public void twiddle(Integer i) { } } D) public class Frob implements Frobnicate { public void twiddle(Integer i) { } }
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) public abstract class Frob implements Frobnicate { }

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B is correct, an abstract class need not implement any or all of an interface’s methods

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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

 

P: But the achievements of science have not come to man as a ripe apple falls in the lap of a man sitting under an apple tree.
Q: Science is not just the result of observation and experience.
R: It is, on the other hand , the result of centuries of hard work done by man, even at the risk of his own life or health.
S: There is no doubt that science has been the greatest boon to man so far.

A) QRPS B) SPQR
C) QPRS D) SQRP
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) SPQR

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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?

A) By breathing through the nose and exhaling through the mouth B) By breathing through the mouth
C) By keeping one's head under water D) By looking downwards
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) By breathing through the mouth

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Select the synonym of

aground

A) stranded B) higher
C) afloat D) buoyant
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) stranded

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Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Many such mishaps can be avoided if we (are) careful.

 

A) be B) might be
C) were D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) no improvement

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