Questions

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.

Instead of finding the root cause of_________ of Indians, the British government took to more ____________ measures. Under the Defense of India Act, it gave more power to the police to arrest persons to stop processions with ____________ movements and actions. The Act brought in the Central Legislative Assembly was defeated by one vote. Even then it was to be passed in the form of an ordinance in the "interest of the public." Bhagat Singh who was in hiding all this while, volunteered to throw a bomb in the Central Legislative Assembly where the meeting to pass the ordinance was being held. It was a carefully laid out _________, not to cause death or injury but to _____________ the attention of the government, that the modes of its suppression could no more be tolerated. It was decided that Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt would court arrest after throwing the bomb.

Instead of finding the root cause of_________ of Indians

The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.

It seemed to them far easier to conceive

X-that the water had gone down, than
Y-that solid land had risen
Z-upward into its present position

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Barking up the wrong tree

A batsman in his 12th innings makes a score of 120, and thereby increase his average by 5. The average score after 12th innings is

The percent profit made when an article is sold for Rs. 78 is twice as much as when it is sold for Rs. 69, the cost price of the article is?

If a+b-62+a2b2+1+2b=2ab+2a, then the value of a is 

World Hello Day is observed on

Who invented the Band-aid?