Questions

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The teacher did not ask (any questions to Rinky).

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

I had (a few) eggs in the fridge, so we need to go to the market to buy them.

Choose the word that best defines the given phrase

‘A written account of the life of an individual’

Union Budget is always presented first in ________

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

They have now
P-by a paternalistic state
Q-of goods mandated
R-been turned into consumers

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The idea was

P-to spend as little money
Q-while avoiding loss of lives
R-as possible

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

His exact date of birth is not known
P-but it is believed that he was born in
Q- late May and later on he decided to celebrate May 29 as his birthday,
R- as this was the date he climbed Everest

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".

The most dominant voice in the speech is