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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

Aristotle argues that poetry is

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

Senseless talk or writing

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

The report (has already been) given to the Board.

An object travels 24 m in 3 s and then another 15 m in 2 s. What is the average speed of the object?

Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station was designed by

In the gamma decay of a nucleus

Which one of the following became a part of China in 1997 following the principle of ‘one country, two systems’?

‘Rand/ZAR’ is the currency of