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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".

Select the answer which best reflects Nehru's point of view.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The Centre’s bid to dispel the pall of gloom over the economy (have been helped) in recent weeks by a rating.

Where is the headquarters of CARICOM?

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

I am not demanding

P-a set of ethical scripts whose
Q-political possibilities could be played out
R-a census of atrocity but

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It was never meant

P-upon fundamental rights
Q-to become a tool
R-to broaden the scope of restrictions

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Public goods are
P-important as they
Q-mitigate the impact of
R-income poverty and inequality

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

If the screen (was any brighter), it would have been easier to read from the tablet.

Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the given word:-

Anathema