Questions

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

A case in point is Sydney, Australia, where last year more than 8,000 pedestrians (is fined) for illegally crossing city streets.

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

Aristotle's argument support the view that poetry shows

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the phrase.

to teach a person to accept a set of beliefs uncritically

Which of the forts was called the 'Troy of the East' by the British ?

Which among the following is not correctly matched?

What is special about a sword-billed hummingbird?

What is the full name of Sachin Tendulkar?

Who built the Konark''s Sun Temple?