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Fresh testimony was expected to exculpate the two junior officers.

In the following items, a word has been highlighted. Select the option that is most opposite in meaning to the highlighted word:

Which of the following refers to the fear of people from different countries or cultures?

In the following statement, there are some highlighted phrases which may contain a grammatical error. Find out which highlighted phrase in both the statements have errors.

(A) The workers were told that unless they (1) does not follow (II) the safety rules, they would face penalties.
(B) The collection of ancient manuscripts (III) were displayed (IV) in the newly constructed gallery of the museum.

Select the correct sentence that converts the given sentence to indirect speech.

The examiner asked the candidate, "Can you explain why you left two questions unanswered in the essay section, and will you attempt them now if I give you five more minutes?"

Choose a word which is not similar in meaning to the word in bold.

The satellite market is also both competitive and turbulent.

Select the pair of words from the options given that has the same relationship as the original pair of words.

Farmer: Crop

(1) Fabric: Yarn
(2) Cat: Kitten
(3) Wish: Desire
(4) Editor: Newspaper

A sentence is provided in direct speech. From the four given options, choose the one that most accurately conveys the sentence in its corresponding indirect speech.

"Let it be stated that we will protect every inch of our border," declared the general.

The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences which forms a coherent paragraph.

Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879.

P. It was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary.
Q. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest.
R. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life
S. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis.

Instead, the young Stalin became a devoted advocate for Marxist revolution.

The following sentences are given in jumbled order. Select the option that arranges them in the correct sequence to form a coherent paragraph.

A. Few of them survive today in a form their founders would recognise.
B. The public library was an invention of civic optimism, built on the belief that a city owed its citizens unpurchased access to print.
C. Where they do survive, it is usually because they quietly became something else - a shelter, a reading room for children, a place with chairs and no obligation to buy anything.
D. Municipal budgets, squeezed from every direction, have come to treat shelving as a luxury and silence as an amenity that nobody is demanding.

The following sentence has been divided into four segments. Select the segment that contains a grammatical error.

The manual explains how to install the device, how it should be calibrated and how to replace the filter before the warranty expires.

Identify the correct passive voice sentence(s):

1. The photographer captured a spectacular view of the valley.
2. The laboratory equipment must be handled with care.
3. The railway authorities have cancelled several trains.
4. The award was received by the young mathematician.

Convert the sentence provided below from its passive voice structure to an active voice structure.

It is widely conjectured by political analysts that the incumbent administration's fiscal policies were exacerbated by global supply chain disruptions.

Identify the correct passive voice sentence(s):

1. The committee may reconsider the disputed decision.
2. The disputed decision may be reconsidered by the committee.
3. The museum closed its doors for renovation.
4. The damaged roof was repaired before the monsoon.

Which sentence uses the word correctly?

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.

The students visited _____ Metropolitan Museum of Art during their educational trip to New York.

Select the conclusion(s) that follow(s) based on the correct meaning of the highlighted idiom in the sentence.

Sentence: The company encouraged blue-sky thinking to come up with futuristic product ideas.

Conclusion:
i. The managers invited unrestricted and creative suggestions from the team.
ii. Blue-sky thinking was discouraged as it limits innovation.
iii. People were asked to propose even unrealistic but imaginative ideas.

Connor: I keep rehearsing what I'll say to the investors but nothing sounds right.
Ava: Stop overthinking. When the moment comes, just wing it. You know your product better than anyone.

What does Ava mean when she tells Connor to "wing it"?

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blanks.

We can _____ go to the movie theater _____ stay at home and watch a movie.

Select the most appropriate passive form of the given sentence.

The board of directors is currently considering whether to implement a more stringent regulatory framework to curb the proliferation of speculative investments.

Directions (95-99): Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.

Groundwater has long functioned as an invisible buffer against climatic uncertainty. During periods of scant rainfall, farmers, households, and industries depend on underground reserves to sustain activities that surface water alone cannot reliably support. Yet the very invisibility of this resource has encouraged its treatment as an inexhaustible commodity. Unlike a reservoir whose declining level is immediately apparent, an aquifer may continue supplying water even as extraction steadily exceeds replenishment, concealing the severity of depletion until wells fail or pumping costs become prohibitive.

The consequences extend beyond the immediate scarcity of drinking and irrigation water. Excessive withdrawal can cause land subsidence, permanently reducing the capacity of some geological formations to store water. In coastal regions, falling groundwater pressure may allow seawater to intrude into freshwater aquifers, rendering supplies unsuitable for many uses. Moreover, when farmers respond to unreliable electricity or unpredictable rainfall by installing more powerful pumps, individual attempts to reduce uncertainty can collectively accelerate depletion. What appears rational at the household level may therefore become destructive at the regional scale.

Technological interventions, including satellite monitoring and efficient irrigation systems, can help identify stress and reduce avoidable consumption. However, efficiency alone does not guarantee conservation. If cheaper irrigation encourages farmers to expand cultivated areas or grow more water-intensive crops, total extraction may remain unchanged or even increase. This rebound effect illustrates why technological improvement must be accompanied by credible measurement, enforceable extraction limits, and incentives for less water-intensive agriculture.

Groundwater governance consequently requires more than emergency restrictions during droughts. It demands institutions capable of coordinating users, making withdrawals visible, and distributing responsibility fairly. Since aquifers cross administrative boundaries and respond slowly to changes in extraction, short-term political gains can conflict with long-term hydrological stability. Protecting groundwater therefore depends not merely on finding additional water, but on recognising the limits of a shared resource before its apparent abundance becomes irreversible loss.

Q95. What is the main argument of the passage?

Directions (95-99): Refer to the passage on groundwater sustainability.

Q96. According to the passage, why can an aquifer appear healthy even when it is being depleted?

Directions (95-99): Refer to the passage on groundwater sustainability.

Q97. Which of the following best illustrates the rebound effect discussed in the passage?

Directions (95-99): Refer to the passage on groundwater sustainability.

Q98. Suppose a district introduces highly efficient irrigation equipment but observes no reduction in total groundwater extraction. Which explanation is most consistent with the passage?

Directions (95-99): Refer to the passage on groundwater sustainability.

Q99. Which statement best describes the author's approach to groundwater conservation?

From the given pairs of words, select the one that has the same meaning.