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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Manja, or the glass-coated string used for flying kites, not only poses threat to humans, animals and birds but also to trees. A study by the country's oldest botanical garden has revealed that it poses a great threat to trees. But how can a snapped string struck in a tree kill the tree? Apparently, it does so by allying with the creepers in the garden.

A research paper by three scientists of the Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, located in West Bengal's Howrah district, illustrates in detail how the manja, in collusion with climbers, does the damage. "The abandoned, torn kite strings act as an excellent primary supporting platform for the tender climbers, giving easy passage to reach the top of the trees. Lateral branches from the top of the climber and other accessory branches from the ground reaches the top taking support of the first climber, completely covers the treetop, thus inhibiting the penetration of sunlight," says the research paper.

Abandoned, torn kite strings stuck in trees benefits whom?

 

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Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any part

The writer(a) of this poetry(b) is Wordsworth(c).No error.(d)

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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order:

 

Guardians of

P-the tyranny of the state
Q-four square against
R-intellectual liberty must stand

 

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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

 

The ideology of

P : modern economics suggests that

Q : enhanced satisfaction and well-being

R : material progress has yielded

 

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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

It is the right to

P­ - who see us at our most vulnerable
Q­ - the indiscretions of doctors
R­ - privacy that protects us from

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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The debate

P : on allowing euthanasia to

Q : protect the dignity of patients in a

R : vegetative state has become a key question

 

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Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

In punishment for the uprising,

P - ­called tributes, to participate
Q­ - each of the twelve districts must provide
R­ - one girl and one boy,

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