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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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'The World Outside My Window' is written by which author?

A) Emily Bronte B) Ruskin Bond
C) I. Jan Austen D) Henry Fielding
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Ruskin Bond

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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".

 

He had had a short illness, there (had been) a brief time of acute suffering, then all was over.

 

A) have been B) have being
C) had being D) no improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) no improvement

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

 

an axe to grind

 

A) preparing for a fight B) to have a problem with something or someone
C) some important task to do D) one's skill should always be practiced or their edge becomes blunt
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) to have a problem with something or someone

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A passage is given with five questions following it. Read the passage carefully and select the best answer to each question out of the given four alternatives.

 

Teaching about compassion and empathy in schools can help deal with problems of climate change and environmental degradation,” says Barbara Maas, secretary,
Standing Committee for Environment and Conservation, International Buddhist Confederation (IBC). She was in New Delhi to participate in the IBC’s governing
council meeting, December 10-11, 2017. “We started an awareness campaign in the year 2005-2006 with H H The Dalai Lama when we learnt that tiger skins were
being traded in China and Tibet. At that time, I was not a Buddhist; I wrote to the Dalai Lama asking him to say that ‘this is harmful’ and he wrote back to say, “We
will stop this.” He used very strong words during the Kalachakra in 2006, when he said, ‘If he sees people wearing fur and skins, he doesn’t feel like living. ‘This sent
huge shock waves in the Himalayan community. Within six months, in Lhasa, people ripped the fur trim of their tubba, the traditional Tibetan dress.

 

The messenger was ideal and the audience was receptive,” says Maas who is a conservationist. She has studied the battered fox’s behavioral ecology in Serengeti, Africa. She heads the endangered species conservation at the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) International Foundation for Nature, Berlin. “I met Samdhong Rinpoche, The Karmapa, HH the Dalai Lama and Geshe Lhakdor and I thought, if by being a Buddhist, you become like this, I am going for it, “says Maas, who led the IBC initiative for including the Buddhist perspective to the global discourse on climate change by presenting the statement, ‘The Time to Act is Now: a Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change,’ at COP21 in Paris.

 

“It was for the first time in the history of Buddhism that leaders of different sanghas came together to take a stand on anything! The statement lists a couple of important things: the first is that we amass things that we don’t need; there is overpopulation; we need to live with contentment and deal with each other and the environment with love and compassion,” elaborates Maas. She is an ardent advocate of a vegan diet because “consuming meat and milk globally contributes more to climate change than all "transport in the world.”

 

Turning vegetarian or vegan usually requires complete change of perspective before one gives up eating their favorite food. What are the Buddhist ways to bring about this kind of change at the individual level? “To change our behavior, Buddhism is an ideal vehicle; it made me a more contented person,” says Maas, who grew up in Germany, as a sausage chomping, meat-loving individual. She says, “If I can change, so can anybody”.

 

According to the passage, what do you infer from ''The messenger was ideal and the audience was receptive''?

 

A) It means that the audience found the messenger attractive and that they wanted to listen to him more and more. B) It means that audience’s reaction goes hand in hand with the speaker’s effectiveness.
C) It means that HH Dalai Lama was a perfect choice of messenger for the message to be received by the audience. D) It means that messenger was tested and was working properly.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) It means that HH Dalai Lama was a perfect choice of messenger for the message to be received by the audience.

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In which year was the First Five Year Plan launched in India?

A) 1921 B) 1931
C) 1941 D) 1951
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) 1951

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According to the Constitution (122nd Amendment) GSTBill 2014, which of the following is exempted from itspurview?

A) Tobacco Products B) Alcohol
C) Steel D) Jute Products
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Alcohol

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Which country has the most coal reserves?

A) Russia B) India
C) China D) USA
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) USA

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