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

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, sand and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of a world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth wide in amazement; the tube would fall off!

What is 'Nemo'?

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Only a country not yet rid

P-of its colonial hangover
Q-and controls, labels dissent as seditious
R-of a government that commands

Choose the word that best defines the given phrase

‘A style in which a writer makes a display of hisknowledge’

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

(It is been seen) as a "prestige battle" for the PM and a litmus test for the president of the opposition party.

Any body kept in a fluid experiences an upward force called _____________.

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

Though George is(a) a honourable man(b) his activities arouse suspicion(c). No error.(d)

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

P: In the least-developed countries, if agricultural productivity were drastically reduced by climate change, the cost of living would rise by one or two percent, and at a time when per capita income will likely have doubled.
Q: It may still be vulnerable to climate change for many years to come.
R: In developing countries, in contrast, as much as a third of GNP and half the population currently depends on agriculture.
S: Agriculture is practically the only sector of the economy affected by climate.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order

Further negotiations

P-are necessary
Q-to reach a common understanding
R-to enable implementation