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.

A century later, the philosophy community needs to take __________ the new challenge of moral deliberation on the most pressing issues of our difficult times. We have to revoke the suspension of ethics and morality ____________ our lives by initiating a dialogue on it. Foregrounding ethics, however, ___________ means undermining the epistemological or ontological questions that are inevitably there. One such beginning can be made by anchoring moral ________________ in fairness and justice —one founded on obligatory fairness towards the people and the planet, towards the earth and the environment, and above all justice towards one_________.

Foregrounding ethics, however, ___________ means undermining

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Up a blind alley

The State Financial Corporations have given assistance mainly to develop___________.

__________ is defined as the output per unit of variable input

Which one of the following statements in respect of the States of India is not correct?

Boiling point of water is ___.

What is the range of frequencies of sound waves audible to human beings?

Liabilities are generally classified on a balance sheet as