Direction: Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
______ this water looks clean, it may be contaminated.
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Read the passage carefully and answer the questions based on the passage.
The news from Tokyo has warmed the hearts of Indians. It is not as if we have not had success at the Olympics in the past. For about half a century our hockey players excelled on the global stage through a display of skill and (A) ________. Their dominance declined with the change in the surface on which the game is played. When astroturf replaced dirt the attributes for success altered; skill and (B) fatality were replaced by speed and strength. But Indian hockey is bouncing back, with a medal for the men’s team and a commendable performance by our young women. In fact, it may be on the (C) _________. Actually, this could be said for all of India’s future sporting endeavours, with Neeraj Chopra’s (D) squalid performance opening up vistas in the track and field space.
(E) The rising level of India’s performance in sport is being evident for a while now, arguably starting with victory in World Cup Cricket in 1983. But something has changed of late. While half a century ago some of our stars were aristocrats, many of today’s sportspersons come from far less privileged backgrounds. (F) Unlike the former, they were not trained on the storied playing fields of England but come from Tier-3 towns and even villages, rising through their on determination and self-belief. However, admirable as their individual efforts may be, this could not have by itself got them where they are today. Their naturally endowed capability has been nurtured by an external agency.
Q. Which of the following words given in the options should come at the place marked as (C) in the above passage to make it grammatically correct and meaningful? Also, the word should fill in the two sentences given below to make them contextually correct and meaningful.
(I) The king desperately looked for a way to fend off the _________ regime rising to power.
(II) She is doing quite well in her organisation and is very much in the ___________ to getting the promotion.
Direction: Item in this section consists of a sentence with an underlined word followed by four words/groups of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
The party leader exhorted his members to start preparing for the formation of their government.
Select the correct direct form of the given sentence.
John requested his friend to help him carry those boxes.
Choose the correct tense to complete the sentence:
Ron and Sophie ______ visited their grandmother's home since college days.
An aeroplane is flying horizontally with a velocity of 600 km/h and at a height of 1960 m. When it is vertically at a point A on the ground a bomb is released from it. The bomb strikes the ground at point B. The distance AB is
Which of the following is NOT correct about the element sodium?
Whose name is not associated with the development of periodic Table
A man throws a ball with a velocity of 20m/s. After what time will the ball come back to his hands? (Take g = 10m/s2)
Identify the correct statement with respect to unsaturated hydrocarbons.
For equation x2 - px + q = 0,
I: If the difference of the roots is unity, then p2 + 4q2 = (1 + 2q)2
II: Roots are equal if p = 4q.
Which of the following statement(s) is/are correct.
The area in the first quadrant between x2 + y2 = π2 and y = sin x is,
In a ΔABC, if a = 25, b = 52 and c = 63 then find the value of sin (C/2) ?
The foci of the ellipse and the hyperbola coincide. Then the value of a2 is.
Which of the following Indian dances has originated from Southern India?
What is the next term in the given series?
T15, R18, P21, N24,?