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

Everyone expected Mary Zophres to win for her retro-revival Technicolor clothes in La La Land — the eventual winner, Colleen Atwood for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, seemed surprised too. But as other awards began to slip away from the well-reviewed musical, a theme could be teased out. What is Fantastic Beasts if not a plea for equal treatment of people, magical or otherwise? Then, Arrival, a film about the inherent benignity of aliens (read immigrants) won for Best Sound Editing. Hacksaw Ridge, which is, in a way, an anti-guns movie, won in two categories. Fences, about an African-American father who fears racial discrimination, took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Earlier, Moonlight, featuring two minority communities (black and gay), won for Best Supporting Actor. This turned out to be one of those years the Oscar voter was underestimated. As a majority of voters are actors, there was the tendency to think they'd reward La La Land, a celebration of creation: the heroine wants to make movies, the hero wants to make jazz. It looked like the year of The Artist all over again.

Colleen Atwood won which Award?

Which of the following statements concerning atmosphere of the Earth are correct?

1. In stratosphere, temperature increases with altitude.

2. In mesosphere, temperature decreases with altitude.

3. The lowest temperature of the atmosphere is recorded in the upper part of mesosphere.

4. Tropopause is an isothermal zone.

Select the correct answer using the code given below.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Everyday we (have usually) dinner at 8 o'clock.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Statistics show

P-­figures over the last three decades
Q­-in several parts of India
R-­a steady rise in the turnout

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence

Before I met your brother I (have had) a poor opinion of him.

Improve the given sentence if necessary.

There is many a slip between the cup and lip.

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'?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Even after 70 years of achieving independence, democracy, (in its true senses), was yet to come to India.