Questions

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Mixed cropping should be encouraged both as a (hedge for) price risk and for its ecological benefits.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence

His condition has only deteriorated, his life (hangs with threads).

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order

It is becoming

P-increasingly clear that anyone
Q-of freedom, justice and equality is seen as a threat
R-who dares to raise issues

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

But while the defeat made

P-­as it was no longer in currency.
Q-­news, the issue on which
R-­it was based failed to resonate

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The granaries of India are trapped in a dangerous vicious cycle of input use, where increased dumping of fertiliser in the wrong combinations (has rendered) the soil incapable of regenerating itself, which in turn escalates input use.

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!

When would there be a risk of the tube falling off?

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

P: The Mughal empire was extensive, but it was not integrated.
Q: It was rather an agglomeration of territories bound together by a common administration and common ties to the imperial authority.
R: The strong hand of the emperor held the country together, compelling obedience from the nobles who governed the provinces.
S: But these nobles felt no sense of national loyalty, for the simple reason that the empire was not a nation.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

What time are we (going to leave) tomorrow?