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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.

What would be the acronym for India's oldest botanical garden?

Which of the following is a bad conductor of heat?

Choose the word which is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word:-

Refractory

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) (has decreed) that all MF schemes must adopt the Total Return variants of their chosen benchmarks to measure and disclose their performance.

Select the synonym of

swine

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

This is where clear,

P-well-publicized editorial guidelines are
Q-precisely formulated, and
R-badly needed in Indian newsrooms

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

So, increasingly,

P-paying to provide revenues
Q-for the Central government
R-the poor have been

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Your absence has

P-gone through me
Q-through a needle
R-like thread