Questions

__ was a Chinese Buddhist monk, who studied Buddhist Scriptures at Nalanda and is famous for his 17 year long trip to India between AD 627 to 643.

Find out the odd word/letters/number/number pair from the given alternatives.

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.

The ___________ conversation-starter cultivated by years of ostentatious ___________ society is a simple ‘how do you do?’ followed by a polite shaking of hands and an optional comment on the weather. But aside __________ the mental trauma this ritual causes to those unfortunate souls who suffer from clammy hands, it also doesn’t provide much incentive to go on. Fascinating as the weather can be from time _________ time, one can speak only so much about the ____________ of the sun and express sympathy towards the depressions the Bay of Bengal faces.

The ___________ conversation-starter cultivated

In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

He said to his partner, "I will not be responsible if the project fails."

In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

She said to me, "I always drink a cup of green tea as soon as I get up."

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.

________________ various signs of economic slowdown such as languishing industrial production and adverse __________________of the drought on rural livelihoods and demand, the government is apparently unable ____________________ unwilling to increase public spending to _________________ people’s material distress or to kick-start economic ____________________ to increase employment.

spending to _________________ people's material distress

Which among the following is respiratory pigment in human beings?

Two particles with charges q1 and q2 are kept at a certain distance to exert force F on each other. If the distance is reduced to one-fifth, then the force between them is