GATE Questions

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The great Sahara Desert created an opportunity for wealth by trading to peoples who live in and around the region. The city of Timbuktu was built as a result of this trade.

Hundreds of years ago, salt was a very valuable commodity. It was valued for its taste as well as its ability to preserve food. One of the most productive areas for producing salt was the Sahara Desert, and the city of Timbuktu was built to capitalize upon this trade.

Liquid sodium is being considered as engine coolant.

VPN's are implemented to provide a secure connection through public networks. A virtual private network extends a private network across a public network, and enables users to send and receive data across shared or public networks as if their computing devices were directly connected to the private network.

As in the given statement, India is already endowed with tourist spots. Therefore, the existing potential should be exploited.

Oceania is a geographic region comprising Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and Australasia. In Oceani, most towns began as Colonial Ports.

Answer 1) d
Rashmi is the daughter of Amit who is son of Veena.
Therefore, Veena is Grand mother of Rashmi.

Answer 2) b
Vandana's sister is Vishal's brother's wife.
Therfore, Vishal is Vandana's Brother-in-law.

Answer 3) c
Yashwanth is son of Avinash who is the son of Rohit Agarwal.
Therefore, surname of Yashwanth is Agarwal.

The error lies in part (1). 

As the phrase 'as much as' needs to be replaced with 'much as I'. This is because we use 'as much as' for comparing two qualities or things. But here in the given sentence a contrast is given in the latter part of the sentence. So we need a conjunction like 'even though' 'although' etc...

'Much as I' also serves the same purpose.