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

 


When I think of my family's history on the land. I experience a pang of regret. Unlike much of the arid West, where the land has gone virtually unchanged for centuries, my place of origin, western Kansas, has been torn up by agriculture. The flat plains, excellent soil, and sparse but just adequate rainfall permitted farming; therefore farming prevailed, and a good 90% of the original sod prairie is gone. The consequence, in human terms, is that our relationship to our place has always felt primarily mercantile. We used the land and denied, or held at bay, its effect on us. Yet from my earliest childhood, when the most of the Kansas prairie was still intact, I 've known that the land also had a romantic quality. I've felt moved by the expanse of it , enthralled by size. I take pride in my identity as a plains daughter.

 

The argument in the paragraph is based primarily on :

A) facts of history and statistical studies. B)  facts derived from the author's personal observations.
C) feelings the author has picked up from personal experience. D) feeling passed down to the authors by ancestors.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) feelings the author has picked up from personal experience.

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Light travels fastest in

A) Nitrogen B) Air
C) Steel D) Vacuum
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Vacuum

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In India, who among the following is also known as ‘the guardian of the public purse’?

A) Comptroller and Auditor General of India B) Prime Minister of India
C) Chief Justice of India D) Ministry of law and Justice
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Comptroller and Auditor General of India

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In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

He turned and walked (1)/ away, his head nearly a (2)/ foot up the others. (3)/No Error (4)

A) 1 B) 2
C) 3 D) 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 3

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The only Viceroy to be assassinated in India was

A) Lord Harding B) Lord Northbrook
C) Lord Ellenborough D) Lord Mayo
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Lord Mayo

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The warm and cold ocean currents are caused by

A) Prevailing winds B) Earth's rotation
C) Variations in density of sea water D) All of these
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) All of these

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Social activist Irom Chanu Sharmila, who has recently announced to end 16­year old hunger strike belongs to which State ?

A) Mizoram B) Manipur
C) Uttar Pradesh D) Maharashtra
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Manipur

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Jawaharlal Nehru was born in the year

A) 1789 B) 1839
C) 1889 D) 1939
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 1889

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