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

Implanting standards, right values, the science of good and evil are an essential part of education. Many forces thwart this to work, but two of the most serious hindrances to it are examinations and specialization. The examination system is both an opiate and a poison. It is an opiate because it lulls Man into believing that all is well when most is ill. It is a poison because it paralyses or at least slows down the natural activities of the healthy mind. Man finds himself a creature of unknown capacities in an unknown world, wants to learn what the world is like, what he should be and do in it. To help him in answering these questions is the one and only purpose of education. However, tests of progress are useful and necessary. Examinations are harmless when the examinee is indifferent to their result, but as soon as they matter, they begin to distort his attitude to education and to conceal its purpose. For disinterestedness is the essence of all good education and liberal education is impossible without it.

The author considers specialization as :

In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

She asked Ravi, "What is worrying you?"

A person holding a pen in his left hand sees his reflection in the mirror holding the pen in his right hand. This is due to which of the following phenomena?

Where was Guru Nanak Dev (the originator of Sikh religion) born?

The ‘National Trade Facilitation Action Plan’ has been formulated for implementation of World Trade Organisation’s Trade Facilitation Agreement(TFA). It will be implemented in between the years ______.

Russian Sukhoi 24 (SU-24) flight was shot down in November 2015 by

Particulates (< 1 μm size) remaining suspended in air indefinitely and transported by wind currents are called

In 1981, ISRO launched India's first geostationary satellite called -