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

"Tryst with Destiny" was a speech delivered by Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, to the Indian Constituent Assembly in Parliament, on 14th August 1947. It is considered to be one of the greatest speeches of all times and to be a landmark oration that captures the essence of the triumphant culmination of the largely non­violent Indian independence struggle against the British Empire in India.

"Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. Freedom and power bring responsibility. The responsibility rests upon the assembly, a sovereign body representing the sovereign people of India. The service of India means the service of the millions who suffer. It means the ending of poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity. We cannot encourage communalism or narrow­mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or in action.

To the people of India, whose representatives we are, this is no time for petty and destructive criticism, no time for ill will or blaming others. We have to build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell".

The most dominant voice in the speech is

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Ajay told the manager that he would not mind (standing and eat) the lunch.

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The teacher did not ask (any questions to Rinky).

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.The aim of platonic

P : into a God

Q : philosophy was to

R : exalt man

Which one of the following is correct?

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order

Truth was

P-­to lead to a breach of peace as a false one
Q­-no defence since
R­-a true defamatory statement was as likely

Consider the following statements about Harappan cities :

1.Roads were not always absolutely straight and did not always cross one another at right angles.

2.A striking feature is the uniformity in the average size of the bricks for houses and for city walls.Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

Choose the word that best defines the given phrase

‘A written account of the life of an individual’