General Knowledge 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.

In a strange ________________, the production and the consumption of the event become cause for concern. _______________ wonders whether newer forms of “non­caring” or violence are appearing. Somehow, silence, even __________________, quietly suppresses a meditation on such events. __________________ a professor, I can recollect the number of occasions when my students have cried as we discussed such events in class. _____________, society seems so indifferent.

_____________, society seems so indifferent.

_________ is any attribute of the organism (morphological, physiological, behavioural) that enables the organism to survive and reproduce in its habitat.

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 asentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

1. A Creole language is a

2. stable natural language develop from

3. a mixture of different languages

4. No error

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".

My father (were standing) in the balcony, his face clenched in a storm of emotions.

An echo is returned in 3 s. What is the distance of the reflecting surface from the source, considering the speed of sound as 342 ms-1?

Name the committee appointed in 1986 by Rajiv Gandhi on "Revitalisation of Panchayti Raj Institution for Democracy & Development".

A high jumper runs for a while before taking a high jump so that the inertia of __ helps him take the long jump.

Cricketer Virat Kohli was honoured with Arjuna Award in the year