CLAT Practice Test - 17 - CLAT MCQ

Indians comprise not just the second largest population in the world, but also the largest population to be affected with mental health disorders globally. According to an estimate by the WHO, 1 in 7 people in this country have suffered from a range of mental health disorders; be it depression, anxiety, dementia, schizophrenia, or others between the years 1990 and 2017, making it 'the most depressing country' in the world. Moreover, it's not wholly or as much about the disorders themselves as it is about the societal stigma attached with it and the subsequent familial ignorance that comes from trying to shut one's eye to the immediate scrutiny surrounding the issue. With stats claiming that there are only 0.301 psychiatrists and 0.407 psychologists for every 1,00,000 mental health patients in India (WHO, 2011) it's only safe to state that mental health disorders are no short of, and possibly a greater epidemic in the country than the corona-virus.

'Anosognosia' is a condition where a severe lack of ability to comprehend or come to terms with one's own ailment makes the person affected reject diagnosis and treatments for it. It is a consequence of changes in overall brain chemistry at the frontal lobe (the part of our brain heavily involved with shaping up our self-image, memory, motivation and the daily tasks we perform as human beings), which disables a patient to believe that they suffer from a disorder altogether. It's most common in patients with bipolar-disorder and schizophrenia.

The country which proudly manufactures the world's doctors and engineers in bulk every year, with most of them being reluctant and dispassionate, and also disgustingly unhealthy due to the superfluous pressures of a severely backward mentality and a dis-concern for personal interests is also a matter of great concern as to how off-springs are conditioned to perform than to share, or to drive academic, and subsequent corporate results than to focus on emotional and financial literacy most of their lives.

Independence to live according to one's interests severely lacks in India, which also adds on to the agonizing surge in numbers of youngsters who succumb to self-harm through drug abuse or suicides every single day in the country. Moreover, the lack of 'love' among a family which has inadvertently been substituted with 'duty' has a lot to do [1] the collective familial ignorance when push comes to shove around mental health disorders to one or multiple members of a family.

Q. As per the author what leads to suicides and substance abuse by youngsters?

Indians comprise not just the second largest population in the world, but also the largest population to be affected with mental health disorders globally. According to an estimate by the WHO, 1 in 7 people in this country have suffered from a range of mental health disorders; be it depression, anxiety, dementia, schizophrenia, or others between the years 1990 and 2017, making it 'the most depressing country' in the world. Moreover, it's not wholly or as much about the disorders themselves as it is about the societal stigma attached with it and the subsequent familial ignorance that comes from trying to shut one's eye to the immediate scrutiny surrounding the issue. With stats claiming that there are only 0.301 psychiatrists and 0.407 psychologists for every 1,00,000 mental health patients in India (WHO, 2011) it's only safe to state that mental health disorders are no short of, and possibly a greater epidemic in the country than the corona-virus.

'Anosognosia' is a condition where a severe lack of ability to comprehend or come to terms with one's own ailment makes the person affected reject diagnosis and treatments for it. It is a consequence of changes in overall brain chemistry at the frontal lobe (the part of our brain heavily involved with shaping up our self-image, memory, motivation and the daily tasks we perform as human beings), which disables a patient to believe that they suffer from a disorder altogether. It's most common in patients with bipolar-disorder and schizophrenia.

The country which proudly manufactures the world's doctors and engineers in bulk every year, with most of them being reluctant and dispassionate, and also disgustingly unhealthy due to the superfluous pressures of a severely backward mentality and a dis-concern for personal interests is also a matter of great concern as to how off-springs are conditioned to perform than to share, or to drive academic, and subsequent corporate results than to focus on emotional and financial literacy most of their lives.

Independence to live according to one's interests severely lacks in India, which also adds on to the agonizing surge in numbers of youngsters who succumb to self-harm through drug abuse or suicides every single day in the country. Moreover, the lack of 'love' among a family which has inadvertently been substituted with 'duty' has a lot to do [1] the collective familial ignorance when push comes to shove around mental health disorders to one or multiple members of a family.

Q. Which of the following disorders has made India 'the most depressing ‘country' between the year 1990 and 2017?

Over-population has been an ever-rising concern throughout the world just like the corona-virus is now. The only difference here is that the former has existed for decades on end, like an undertone to a thin sheet of chosen ignorance while the latter has become a topmost priority for the world; and when we speak about the damages of over-population, India is often the first name on critiques' tongues.

With 1,380,004,385 people and counting, the birth count of our peninsular land fiercely crosses the nationwide deaths, (7.3/1000 deaths versus 18.2/1000 births) a live count of which might even look like ticks of seconds that had begun from a point A on a straight road gaining steady speed towards a yet unidentified point B. To think that children are being delivered all over the country faster than I am typing this article right now is daunting. But many might also feel that live deaths equate births and thus strikes a balance between over and under-population, well yes... but not in India.

Keeping the afore-mentioned stats and information in mind, the questions ""where does the problem come from?"" and ""what might be an appropriate solution to the prospective epidemic of space, water and food?” arise. Yet the answer is nowhere near as complicated as it may seem, it's a pretty simple one to be honest; simple but only on paper. A family plan.

Expenses and costs are rising every single day; from hikes in fuel to groceries, appliances, electricity and education over the years, the want for the ""best of the best"" has now started to boil down to the ""best under what one can afford"". With these comes the added pressure of sticking to the kinds of jobs that provide you with a security of long-term employment. Especially for private workers, the fear of losing a job is a constant year-round, and proves to become the kind of aspect of the job where a seeker ceases to prioritize money and adjusts to cheap take-homes with an often unwritten promise of not being fired too soon. A life of compromises that one walks with thus, the compromises most often being monetary; family planning becomes crucial for not just the head of the household, but the mental and physical well-being of his kin. It begins with you and your own expenses, then spreads out to you and your spouse's expenses, then you, your spouse, and your new-born's expenses too fast if you don't plan it well beforehand; and in seemingly no time you find yourself going through your saving account receipts and policies to liquidate to afford even only a satisfactory education for your off-spring.

Q. What is the author trying to convey with the statement “The only difference here is that the former has existed for decades on end, like an undertone to a thin sheet of chosen ignorance while the latter has become a topmost priority for the world”?

Over-population has been an ever-rising concern throughout the world just like the corona-virus is now. The only difference here is that the former has existed for decades on end, like an undertone to a thin sheet of chosen ignorance while the latter has become a topmost priority for the world; and when we speak about the damages of over-population, India is often the first name on critiques' tongues.

With 1,380,004,385 people and counting, the birth count of our peninsular land fiercely crosses the nationwide deaths, (7.3/1000 deaths versus 18.2/1000 births) a live count of which might even look like ticks of seconds that had begun from a point A on a straight road gaining steady speed towards a yet unidentified point B. To think that children are being delivered all over the country faster than I am typing this article right now is daunting. But many might also feel that live deaths equate births and thus strikes a balance between over and under-population, well yes... but not in India.

Keeping the afore-mentioned stats and information in mind, the questions ""where does the problem come from?"" and ""what might be an appropriate solution to the prospective epidemic of space, water and food?” arise. Yet the answer is nowhere near as complicated as it may seem, it's a pretty simple one to be honest; simple but only on paper. A family plan.

Expenses and costs are rising every single day; from hikes in fuel to groceries, appliances, electricity and education over the years, the want for the ""best of the best"" has now started to boil down to the ""best under what one can afford"". With these comes the added pressure of sticking to the kinds of jobs that provide you with a security of long-term employment. Especially for private workers, the fear of losing a job is a constant year-round, and proves to become the kind of aspect of the job where a seeker ceases to prioritize money and adjusts to cheap take-homes with an often unwritten promise of not being fired too soon. A life of compromises that one walks with thus, the compromises most often being monetary; family planning becomes crucial for not just the head of the household, but the mental and physical well-being of his kin. It begins with you and your own expenses, then spreads out to you and your spouse's expenses, then you, your spouse, and your new-born's expenses too fast if you don't plan it well beforehand; and in seemingly no time you find yourself going through your saving account receipts and policies to liquidate to afford even only a satisfactory education for your off-spring.

Q. Which of the following is true as per the paragraph above?

Over-population has been an ever-rising concern throughout the world just like the corona-virus is now. The only difference here is that the former has existed for decades on end, like an undertone to a thin sheet of chosen ignorance while the latter has become a topmost priority for the world; and when we speak about the damages of over-population, India is often the first name on critiques' tongues.

With 1,380,004,385 people and counting, the birth count of our peninsular land fiercely crosses the nationwide deaths, (7.3/1000 deaths versus 18.2/1000 births) a live count of which might even look like ticks of seconds that had begun from a point A on a straight road gaining steady speed towards a yet unidentified point B. To think that children are being delivered all over the country faster than I am typing this article right now is daunting. But many might also feel that live deaths equate births and thus strikes a balance between over and under-population, well yes... but not in India.

Keeping the afore-mentioned stats and information in mind, the questions ""where does the problem come from?"" and ""what might be an appropriate solution to the prospective epidemic of space, water and food?” arise. Yet the answer is nowhere near as complicated as it may seem, it's a pretty simple one to be honest; simple but only on paper. A family plan.

Expenses and costs are rising every single day; from hikes in fuel to groceries, appliances, electricity and education over the years, the want for the ""best of the best"" has now started to boil down to the ""best under what one can afford"". With these comes the added pressure of sticking to the kinds of jobs that provide you with a security of long-term employment. Especially for private workers, the fear of losing a job is a constant year-round, and proves to become the kind of aspect of the job where a seeker ceases to prioritize money and adjusts to cheap take-homes with an often unwritten promise of not being fired too soon. A life of compromises that one walks with thus, the compromises most often being monetary; family planning becomes crucial for not just the head of the household, but the mental and physical well-being of his kin. It begins with you and your own expenses, then spreads out to you and your spouse's expenses, then you, your spouse, and your new-born's expenses too fast if you don't plan it well beforehand; and in seemingly no time you find yourself going through your saving account receipts and policies to liquidate to afford even only a satisfactory education for your off-spring.

Q. What compromises does a middle-class man have to face as per the author above?

Over-population has been an ever-rising concern throughout the world just like the corona-virus is now. The only difference here is that the former has existed for decades on end, like an undertone to a thin sheet of chosen ignorance while the latter has become a topmost priority for the world; and when we speak about the damages of over-population, India is often the first name on critiques' tongues.

With 1,380,004,385 people and counting, the birth count of our peninsular land fiercely crosses the nationwide deaths, (7.3/1000 deaths versus 18.2/1000 births) a live count of which might even look like ticks of seconds that had begun from a point A on a straight road gaining steady speed towards a yet unidentified point B. To think that children are being delivered all over the country faster than I am typing this article right now is daunting. But many might also feel that live deaths equate births and thus strikes a balance between over and under-population, well yes... but not in India.

Keeping the afore-mentioned stats and information in mind, the questions ""where does the problem come from?"" and ""what might be an appropriate solution to the prospective epidemic of space, water and food?” arise. Yet the answer is nowhere near as complicated as it may seem, it's a pretty simple one to be honest; simple but only on paper. A family plan.

Expenses and costs are rising every single day; from hikes in fuel to groceries, appliances, electricity and education over the years, the want for the ""best of the best"" has now started to boil down to the ""best under what one can afford"". With these comes the added pressure of sticking to the kinds of jobs that provide you with a security of long-term employment. Especially for private workers, the fear of losing a job is a constant year-round, and proves to become the kind of aspect of the job where a seeker ceases to prioritize money and adjusts to cheap take-homes with an often unwritten promise of not being fired too soon. A life of compromises that one walks with thus, the compromises most often being monetary; family planning becomes crucial for not just the head of the household, but the mental and physical well-being of his kin. It begins with you and your own expenses, then spreads out to you and your spouse's expenses, then you, your spouse, and your new-born's expenses too fast if you don't plan it well beforehand; and in seemingly no time you find yourself going through your saving account receipts and policies to liquidate to afford even only a satisfactory education for your off-spring.

Q. What does the author mean by “the "best of the best" has now started to boil down to the "best under what one can afford"?

Over-population has been an ever-rising concern throughout the world just like the corona-virus is now. The only difference here is that the former has existed for decades on end, like an undertone to a thin sheet of chosen ignorance while the latter has become a topmost priority for the world; and when we speak about the damages of over-population, India is often the first name on critiques' tongues.

With 1,380,004,385 people and counting, the birth count of our peninsular land fiercely crosses the nationwide deaths, (7.3/1000 deaths versus 18.2/1000 births) a live count of which might even look like ticks of seconds that had begun from a point A on a straight road gaining steady speed towards a yet unidentified point B. To think that children are being delivered all over the country faster than I am typing this article right now is daunting. But many might also feel that live deaths equate births and thus strikes a balance between over and under-population, well yes... but not in India.

Keeping the afore-mentioned stats and information in mind, the questions ""where does the problem come from?"" and ""what might be an appropriate solution to the prospective epidemic of space, water and food?” arise. Yet the answer is nowhere near as complicated as it may seem, it's a pretty simple one to be honest; simple but only on paper. A family plan.

Expenses and costs are rising every single day; from hikes in fuel to groceries, appliances, electricity and education over the years, the want for the ""best of the best"" has now started to boil down to the ""best under what one can afford"". With these comes the added pressure of sticking to the kinds of jobs that provide you with a security of long-term employment. Especially for private workers, the fear of losing a job is a constant year-round, and proves to become the kind of aspect of the job where a seeker ceases to prioritize money and adjusts to cheap take-homes with an often unwritten promise of not being fired too soon. A life of compromises that one walks with thus, the compromises most often being monetary; family planning becomes crucial for not just the head of the household, but the mental and physical well-being of his kin. It begins with you and your own expenses, then spreads out to you and your spouse's expenses, then you, your spouse, and your new-born's expenses too fast if you don't plan it well beforehand; and in seemingly no time you find yourself going through your saving account receipts and policies to liquidate to afford even only a satisfactory education for your off-spring.

Q. Choose the most appropriate takeaway from this paragraph above.

A very important world problem - in fact, I am inclined to say it is the most important of all the great world problems which face us at the present time - is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on land and on land resources.

It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase which is important. It works out to be about 1.6 per cent per annum net increase. In terms of numbers this means something like forty to fifty-five million additional people every year. Canada has a population of twenty million - rather less than six months' climb in world population. Take Australia. There are ten million people in Australia. So, it takes the world less than three months to add to itself a population which peoples that vast country. Let us take our own crowded country - England and Wales: forty-five to fifty million people - just about a year's supply.

By this time tomorrow, and every day, there will be added to the earth about 120,000 extra people - just about the population of the city of York.

I am not talking about birth rate. This is net increase. To give you some idea of birth rate, look at the seconds hand of your watch. Every second three babies are born somewhere in the world. Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! You cannot speak quickly enough to keep pace with the birth rate.

This enormous increase of population will create immense problems. By A.D. 2000, unless something desperate happens, there will be as many as 7,000,000,000 people on the surface of this earth! So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime.

Why is this enormous increase in population taking place? It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and the practice of what is coming to be called Death Control. You have heard of Birth Control? Death Control is something rather different. Death Control recognizes the work of the doctors and the nurses and the hospitals and the health services in keeping alive people who, a few years ago, would have died of some of the incredibly serious killing diseases, as they used to be. Squalid conditions, which we can remedy by an improved standard of living, caused a lot of disease and dirt. Medical examinations at school catch diseases early and ensure healthier school children. Scientists are at work stamping out malaria and other more deadly diseases. If you are seriously ill there is an ambulance to take you to a modern hospital. Medical care helps to keep people alive longer. We used to think seventy was a good age; now eighty, ninety, it may be, are coming to be recognized as a normal age for human beings. People are living longer because of this Death Control, and fewer children are dying, so the population of the world is shooting up.

Q. Which of the following is correct regarding the tone of the author?

A very important world problem - in fact, I am inclined to say it is the most important of all the great world problems which face us at the present time - is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on land and on land resources.

It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase which is important. It works out to be about 1.6 per cent per annum net increase. In terms of numbers this means something like forty to fifty-five million additional people every year. Canada has a population of twenty million - rather less than six months' climb in world population. Take Australia. There are ten million people in Australia. So, it takes the world less than three months to add to itself a population which peoples that vast country. Let us take our own crowded country - England and Wales: forty-five to fifty million people - just about a year's supply.

By this time tomorrow, and every day, there will be added to the earth about 120,000 extra people - just about the population of the city of York.

I am not talking about birth rate. This is net increase. To give you some idea of birth rate, look at the seconds hand of your watch. Every second three babies are born somewhere in the world. Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! You cannot speak quickly enough to keep pace with the birth rate.

This enormous increase of population will create immense problems. By A.D. 2000, unless something desperate happens, there will be as many as 7,000,000,000 people on the surface of this earth! So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime.

Why is this enormous increase in population taking place? It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and the practice of what is coming to be called Death Control. You have heard of Birth Control? Death Control is something rather different. Death Control recognizes the work of the doctors and the nurses and the hospitals and the health services in keeping alive people who, a few years ago, would have died of some of the incredibly serious killing diseases, as they used to be. Squalid conditions, which we can remedy by an improved standard of living, caused a lot of disease and dirt. Medical examinations at school catch diseases early and ensure healthier school children. Scientists are at work stamping out malaria and other more deadly diseases. If you are seriously ill there is an ambulance to take you to a modern hospital. Medical care helps to keep people alive longer. We used to think seventy was a good age; now eighty, ninety, it may be, are coming to be recognized as a normal age for human beings. People are living longer because of this Death Control, and fewer children are dying, so the population of the world is shooting up.

Q. Which of the following is true in association to the passage given?

1. The rate of increase in population is the issue, and not the population itself.

2. Total population along with the rate at which it is increasing is the issue.

3. The major concern is that there are three births per second.

4. 70 years and above has always been an adequate span of human life.

A very important world problem - in fact, I am inclined to say it is the most important of all the great world problems which face us at the present time - is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on land and on land resources.

It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase which is important. It works out to be about 1.6 per cent per annum net increase. In terms of numbers this means something like forty to fifty-five million additional people every year. Canada has a population of twenty million - rather less than six months' climb in world population. Take Australia. There are ten million people in Australia. So, it takes the world less than three months to add to itself a population which peoples that vast country. Let us take our own crowded country - England and Wales: forty-five to fifty million people - just about a year's supply.

By this time tomorrow, and every day, there will be added to the earth about 120,000 extra people - just about the population of the city of York.

I am not talking about birth rate. This is net increase. To give you some idea of birth rate, look at the seconds hand of your watch. Every second three babies are born somewhere in the world. Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! You cannot speak quickly enough to keep pace with the birth rate.

This enormous increase of population will create immense problems. By A.D. 2000, unless something desperate happens, there will be as many as 7,000,000,000 people on the surface of this earth! So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime.

Why is this enormous increase in population taking place? It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and the practice of what is coming to be called Death Control. You have heard of Birth Control? Death Control is something rather different. Death Control recognizes the work of the doctors and the nurses and the hospitals and the health services in keeping alive people who, a few years ago, would have died of some of the incredibly serious killing diseases, as they used to be. Squalid conditions, which we can remedy by an improved standard of living, caused a lot of disease and dirt. Medical examinations at school catch diseases early and ensure healthier school children. Scientists are at work stamping out malaria and other more deadly diseases. If you are seriously ill there is an ambulance to take you to a modern hospital. Medical care helps to keep people alive longer. We used to think seventy was a good age; now eighty, ninety, it may be, are coming to be recognized as a normal age for human beings. People are living longer because of this Death Control, and fewer children are dying, so the population of the world is shooting up.

Q. Which of the following could be the title of the passage?

A very important world problem - in fact, I am inclined to say it is the most important of all the great world problems which face us at the present time - is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on land and on land resources.

It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase which is important. It works out to be about 1.6 per cent per annum net increase. In terms of numbers this means something like forty to fifty-five million additional people every year. Canada has a population of twenty million - rather less than six months' climb in world population. Take Australia. There are ten million people in Australia. So, it takes the world less than three months to add to itself a population which peoples that vast country. Let us take our own crowded country - England and Wales: forty-five to fifty million people - just about a year's supply.

By this time tomorrow, and every day, there will be added to the earth about 120,000 extra people - just about the population of the city of York.

I am not talking about birth rate. This is net increase. To give you some idea of birth rate, look at the seconds hand of your watch. Every second three babies are born somewhere in the world. Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! You cannot speak quickly enough to keep pace with the birth rate.

This enormous increase of population will create immense problems. By A.D. 2000, unless something desperate happens, there will be as many as 7,000,000,000 people on the surface of this earth! So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime.

Why is this enormous increase in population taking place? It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and the practice of what is coming to be called Death Control. You have heard of Birth Control? Death Control is something rather different. Death Control recognizes the work of the doctors and the nurses and the hospitals and the health services in keeping alive people who, a few years ago, would have died of some of the incredibly serious killing diseases, as they used to be. Squalid conditions, which we can remedy by an improved standard of living, caused a lot of disease and dirt. Medical examinations at school catch diseases early and ensure healthier school children. Scientists are at work stamping out malaria and other more deadly diseases. If you are seriously ill there is an ambulance to take you to a modern hospital. Medical care helps to keep people alive longer. We used to think seventy was a good age; now eighty, ninety, it may be, are coming to be recognized as a normal age for human beings. People are living longer because of this Death Control, and fewer children are dying, so the population of the world is shooting up.

Q. What is death control?

A very important world problem - in fact, I am inclined to say it is the most important of all the great world problems which face us at the present time - is the rapidly increasing pressure of population on land and on land resources.

It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase which is important. It works out to be about 1.6 per cent per annum net increase. In terms of numbers this means something like forty to fifty-five million additional people every year. Canada has a population of twenty million - rather less than six months' climb in world population. Take Australia. There are ten million people in Australia. So, it takes the world less than three months to add to itself a population which peoples that vast country. Let us take our own crowded country - England and Wales: forty-five to fifty million people - just about a year's supply.

By this time tomorrow, and every day, there will be added to the earth about 120,000 extra people - just about the population of the city of York.

I am not talking about birth rate. This is net increase. To give you some idea of birth rate, look at the seconds hand of your watch. Every second three babies are born somewhere in the world. Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! You cannot speak quickly enough to keep pace with the birth rate.

This enormous increase of population will create immense problems. By A.D. 2000, unless something desperate happens, there will be as many as 7,000,000,000 people on the surface of this earth! So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime.

Why is this enormous increase in population taking place? It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and the practice of what is coming to be called Death Control. You have heard of Birth Control? Death Control is something rather different. Death Control recognizes the work of the doctors and the nurses and the hospitals and the health services in keeping alive people who, a few years ago, would have died of some of the incredibly serious killing diseases, as they used to be. Squalid conditions, which we can remedy by an improved standard of living, caused a lot of disease and dirt. Medical examinations at school catch diseases early and ensure healthier school children. Scientists are at work stamping out malaria and other more deadly diseases. If you are seriously ill there is an ambulance to take you to a modern hospital. Medical care helps to keep people alive longer. We used to think seventy was a good age; now eighty, ninety, it may be, are coming to be recognized as a normal age for human beings. People are living longer because of this Death Control, and fewer children are dying, so the population of the world is shooting up.

Q. Which of the following could be accepted as a conclusion to the given passage?

One of the kinds of human enhancement that has received extensive philosophical attention in recent years is the use of biomedical interventions to improve the physical performance of athletes in the context of sports. One reason athletic performance enhancement garners so much attention is because of its currency, given the epidemic of ""doping"" scandals in contemporary sport.

At first impression, the ethical problem with performance enhancement in sport would seem to be simply a problem of cheating. If the rules of sport forbid the use of performance enhancements, then their illicit use confers an advantage to users against other athletes. That advantage, in turn, can create pressure for more athletes to cheat in the same way, undermining the basis for the competitions at stake and exacerbating the gap between those who can afford enhancements and those who cannot.

The rules of a game can be changed. In sports, novel forms of performance enhancing equipment and training are routinely introduced as athletic technology and expertise evolve. Where issues of athletes' equitable access arise, they can be dealt with in one of two ways. Sometimes it is possible to ensure fair distribution, as for example, when the International Olympic Committee negotiated an agreement with the manufacturer of the new ""FastSkin"" swimming suit to provide suits to all the teams at the Sydney Olympics. In other cases, inequalities may simply come to be accepted as unfortunate but not unfair. This is, for example, how many people would view a story about an equatorial country that could not afford year-round artificial snow for its ski team, and so could not compete evenly with the ski teams of northern countries. If enhancement interventions can either be distributed fairly or the inequities they create can be written into the rules of the social game in question as part of the given advantages of the more fortunate, then individual users no longer face a fairness problem. For those who can afford it, for example, what would be ethically suspect about mounting a mirror image of the ""Special Olympics"" for athletes with disabilities: a ""Super Olympics"", featuring athletes universally equipped with the latest modifications and enhancements? For answers to that challenge, the critics of biomedical enhancement have to dig beyond concerns about the fair governance of games to a deeper and broader sense of ""cheating"", in terms of the corrosive effects of enhancement on the integrity of admirable human practices.

Q. According to the passage, one of the reasons as to why athletic performance enhancements get so much attention is:

One of the kinds of human enhancement that has received extensive philosophical attention in recent years is the use of biomedical interventions to improve the physical performance of athletes in the context of sports. One reason athletic performance enhancement garners so much attention is because of its currency, given the epidemic of ""doping"" scandals in contemporary sport.

At first impression, the ethical problem with performance enhancement in sport would seem to be simply a problem of cheating. If the rules of sport forbid the use of performance enhancements, then their illicit use confers an advantage to users against other athletes. That advantage, in turn, can create pressure for more athletes to cheat in the same way, undermining the basis for the competitions at stake and exacerbating the gap between those who can afford enhancements and those who cannot.

The rules of a game can be changed. In sports, novel forms of performance enhancing equipment and training are routinely introduced as athletic technology and expertise evolve. Where issues of athletes' equitable access arise, they can be dealt with in one of two ways. Sometimes it is possible to ensure fair distribution, as for example, when the International Olympic Committee negotiated an agreement with the manufacturer of the new ""FastSkin"" swimming suit to provide suits to all the teams at the Sydney Olympics. In other cases, inequalities may simply come to be accepted as unfortunate but not unfair. This is, for example, how many people would view a story about an equatorial country that could not afford year-round artificial snow for its ski team, and so could not compete evenly with the ski teams of northern countries. If enhancement interventions can either be distributed fairly or the inequities they create can be written into the rules of the social game in question as part of the given advantages of the more fortunate, then individual users no longer face a fairness problem. For those who can afford it, for example, what would be ethically suspect about mounting a mirror image of the ""Special Olympics"" for athletes with disabilities: a ""Super Olympics"", featuring athletes universally equipped with the latest modifications and enhancements? For answers to that challenge, the critics of biomedical enhancement have to dig beyond concerns about the fair governance of games to a deeper and broader sense of ""cheating"", in terms of the corrosive effects of enhancement on the integrity of admirable human practices.

Q. Complete the following- "Super Olympics", as per the passage:

One of the kinds of human enhancement that has received extensive philosophical attention in recent years is the use of biomedical interventions to improve the physical performance of athletes in the context of sports. One reason athletic performance enhancement garners so much attention is because of its currency, given the epidemic of ""doping"" scandals in contemporary sport.

At first impression, the ethical problem with performance enhancement in sport would seem to be simply a problem of cheating. If the rules of sport forbid the use of performance enhancements, then their illicit use confers an advantage to users against other athletes. That advantage, in turn, can create pressure for more athletes to cheat in the same way, undermining the basis for the competitions at stake and exacerbating the gap between those who can afford enhancements and those who cannot.

The rules of a game can be changed. In sports, novel forms of performance enhancing equipment and training are routinely introduced as athletic technology and expertise evolve. Where issues of athletes' equitable access arise, they can be dealt with in one of two ways. Sometimes it is possible to ensure fair distribution, as for example, when the International Olympic Committee negotiated an agreement with the manufacturer of the new ""FastSkin"" swimming suit to provide suits to all the teams at the Sydney Olympics. In other cases, inequalities may simply come to be accepted as unfortunate but not unfair. This is, for example, how many people would view a story about an equatorial country that could not afford year-round artificial snow for its ski team, and so could not compete evenly with the ski teams of northern countries. If enhancement interventions can either be distributed fairly or the inequities they create can be written into the rules of the social game in question as part of the given advantages of the more fortunate, then individual users no longer face a fairness problem. For those who can afford it, for example, what would be ethically suspect about mounting a mirror image of the ""Special Olympics"" for athletes with disabilities: a ""Super Olympics"", featuring athletes universally equipped with the latest modifications and enhancements? For answers to that challenge, the critics of biomedical enhancement have to dig beyond concerns about the fair governance of games to a deeper and broader sense of ""cheating"", in terms of the corrosive effects of enhancement on the integrity of admirable human practices.

Q. Which of the following is analogous to the example of equatorial countries' inability to complete in ski- competitions?

One of the kinds of human enhancement that has received extensive philosophical attention in recent years is the use of biomedical interventions to improve the physical performance of athletes in the context of sports. One reason athletic performance enhancement garners so much attention is because of its currency, given the epidemic of ""doping"" scandals in contemporary sport.

At first impression, the ethical problem with performance enhancement in sport would seem to be simply a problem of cheating. If the rules of sport forbid the use of performance enhancements, then their illicit use confers an advantage to users against other athletes. That advantage, in turn, can create pressure for more athletes to cheat in the same way, undermining the basis for the competitions at stake and exacerbating the gap between those who can afford enhancements and those who cannot.

The rules of a game can be changed. In sports, novel forms of performance enhancing equipment and training are routinely introduced as athletic technology and expertise evolve. Where issues of athletes' equitable access arise, they can be dealt with in one of two ways. Sometimes it is possible to ensure fair distribution, as for example, when the International Olympic Committee negotiated an agreement with the manufacturer of the new ""FastSkin"" swimming suit to provide suits to all the teams at the Sydney Olympics. In other cases, inequalities may simply come to be accepted as unfortunate but not unfair. This is, for example, how many people would view a story about an equatorial country that could not afford year-round artificial snow for its ski team, and so could not compete evenly with the ski teams of northern countries. If enhancement interventions can either be distributed fairly or the inequities they create can be written into the rules of the social game in question as part of the given advantages of the more fortunate, then individual users no longer face a fairness problem. For those who can afford it, for example, what would be ethically suspect about mounting a mirror image of the ""Special Olympics"" for athletes with disabilities: a ""Super Olympics"", featuring athletes universally equipped with the latest modifications and enhancements? For answers to that challenge, the critics of biomedical enhancement have to dig beyond concerns about the fair governance of games to a deeper and broader sense of ""cheating"", in terms of the corrosive effects of enhancement on the integrity of admirable human practices.

Q. In the last paragraph, what is the author's appeal to the critics of biomedical enhancements?

One of the kinds of human enhancement that has received extensive philosophical attention in recent years is the use of biomedical interventions to improve the physical performance of athletes in the context of sports. One reason athletic performance enhancement garners so much attention is because of its currency, given the epidemic of ""doping"" scandals in contemporary sport.

At first impression, the ethical problem with performance enhancement in sport would seem to be simply a problem of cheating. If the rules of sport forbid the use of performance enhancements, then their illicit use confers an advantage to users against other athletes. That advantage, in turn, can create pressure for more athletes to cheat in the same way, undermining the basis for the competitions at stake and exacerbating the gap between those who can afford enhancements and those who cannot.

The rules of a game can be changed. In sports, novel forms of performance enhancing equipment and training are routinely introduced as athletic technology and expertise evolve. Where issues of athletes' equitable access arise, they can be dealt with in one of two ways. Sometimes it is possible to ensure fair distribution, as for example, when the International Olympic Committee negotiated an agreement with the manufacturer of the new ""FastSkin"" swimming suit to provide suits to all the teams at the Sydney Olympics. In other cases, inequalities may simply come to be accepted as unfortunate but not unfair. This is, for example, how many people would view a story about an equatorial country that could not afford year-round artificial snow for its ski team, and so could not compete evenly with the ski teams of northern countries. If enhancement interventions can either be distributed fairly or the inequities they create can be written into the rules of the social game in question as part of the given advantages of the more fortunate, then individual users no longer face a fairness problem. For those who can afford it, for example, what would be ethically suspect about mounting a mirror image of the ""Special Olympics"" for athletes with disabilities: a ""Super Olympics"", featuring athletes universally equipped with the latest modifications and enhancements? For answers to that challenge, the critics of biomedical enhancement have to dig beyond concerns about the fair governance of games to a deeper and broader sense of ""cheating"", in terms of the corrosive effects of enhancement on the integrity of admirable human practices.

Q. What does the meaning of the word "exacerbate" as used in the passage mean?

Ahmedabad’s Sunday market that sells junk is this 35-year-old artist’s favourite hunting ground. That’s where he picks saw-blades, printer toners, monitors, busted VCDs and hard disks, video players and other castaway gems. Back home, he painstakingly dismantles his treasure of scrap and segregates it into big pieces (the video-player’s outer case), mid-sized (the insides of a hard disk) and small pieces (innards of a mobile).

This is art you can get up, close and personal with. The works grab the viewer’s attention at several levels. Aesthetically, the creations themselves - such as Frivolity which uses feathers and terracotta diyas painted in dark fossil green that give it a strange life - appeal in a live-and-kicking sort of way.

Look a little closer and hey, you spot a zipper. Then it’s a journey all your own. Your eyes identify hairpins, spray spouts that hairdressers use, paper clips, thread, computer ribbons and the insides of everything from watches to the sliding metal bits that support drawers. You can almost hear the works whirr. So Hashish, constructed from paper clips, backpack clips, a shining CD and twirled thread, may invite you to study its water-blue, pinks and green or Nelumbeshwar may beckon, bathed in acrylic pink and grey-black. But once you’re standing in front of a piece, you spot the zips and the hairpins. Then you simply visually dismantle Har’s work and rebuild it all over again. Zoom in, zoom out. It’s great fun.

Visualising the colour of his work demands a lot of attention, says Har. “During creation, the material is all differently coloured. So there’s a red switch next to a white panel next to a black clip. It can distract. I don’t sketch, so I have to keep a sharp focus on the final look I am working towards.” As his work evolved, Har discovered laser-cutting on a visit to a factory where he had gone to sand-blast one of his pieces. Hooked by the zingy shapes laser-cutting offered, Har promptly used it to speed up a scooter and lend an unbearable lightness of being to a flighty autorickshaw, his latest works.

The NID-trained animation designer’s scrap quest was first inspired by a spider in his bathroom in Chennai when he was a teenager. He used a table-tennis ball (for the head), a bigger plastic ball (for the body) and twisted clothes hangers to form the legs. His next idea was to create a crab, and his mother obligingly brought one home from the market so that he could study and copy it.

Winning the first Art Positive fellowship offered by Bajaj Capital Arthouse last year gave Her the confidence to believe that he could make it as an artist or ‘aesthete’ as he likes to call himself.

Q. Which of the following would be a suitable title for the given passage?

Ahmedabad’s Sunday market that sells junk is this 35-year-old artist’s favourite hunting ground. That’s where he picks saw-blades, printer toners, monitors, busted VCDs and hard disks, video players and other castaway gems. Back home, he painstakingly dismantles his treasure of scrap and segregates it into big pieces (the video-player’s outer case), mid-sized (the insides of a hard disk) and small pieces (innards of a mobile).

This is art you can get up, close and personal with. The works grab the viewer’s attention at several levels. Aesthetically, the creations themselves - such as Frivolity which uses feathers and terracotta diyas painted in dark fossil green that give it a strange life - appeal in a live-and-kicking sort of way.

Look a little closer and hey, you spot a zipper. Then it’s a journey all your own. Your eyes identify hairpins, spray spouts that hairdressers use, paper clips, thread, computer ribbons and the insides of everything from watches to the sliding metal bits that support drawers. You can almost hear the works whirr. So Hashish, constructed from paper clips, backpack clips, a shining CD and twirled thread, may invite you to study its water-blue, pinks and green or Nelumbeshwar may beckon, bathed in acrylic pink and grey-black. But once you’re standing in front of a piece, you spot the zips and the hairpins. Then you simply visually dismantle Har’s work and rebuild it all over again. Zoom in, zoom out. It’s great fun.

Visualising the colour of his work demands a lot of attention, says Har. “During creation, the material is all differently coloured. So there’s a red switch next to a white panel next to a black clip. It can distract. I don’t sketch, so I have to keep a sharp focus on the final look I am working towards.” As his work evolved, Har discovered laser-cutting on a visit to a factory where he had gone to sand-blast one of his pieces. Hooked by the zingy shapes laser-cutting offered, Har promptly used it to speed up a scooter and lend an unbearable lightness of being to a flighty autorickshaw, his latest works.

The NID-trained animation designer’s scrap quest was first inspired by a spider in his bathroom in Chennai when he was a teenager. He used a table-tennis ball (for the head), a bigger plastic ball (for the body) and twisted clothes hangers to form the legs. His next idea was to create a crab, and his mother obligingly brought one home from the market so that he could study and copy it.

Winning the first Art Positive fellowship offered by Bajaj Capital Arthouse last year gave Her the confidence to believe that he could make it as an artist or ‘aesthete’ as he likes to call himself.

Q. According to the passage, which of the following statements can be inferred?

Ahmedabad’s Sunday market that sells junk is this 35-year-old artist’s favourite hunting ground. That’s where he picks saw-blades, printer toners, monitors, busted VCDs and hard disks, video players and other castaway gems. Back home, he painstakingly dismantles his treasure of scrap and segregates it into big pieces (the video-player’s outer case), mid-sized (the insides of a hard disk) and small pieces (innards of a mobile).

This is art you can get up, close and personal with. The works grab the viewer’s attention at several levels. Aesthetically, the creations themselves - such as Frivolity which uses feathers and terracotta diyas painted in dark fossil green that give it a strange life - appeal in a live-and-kicking sort of way.

Look a little closer and hey, you spot a zipper. Then it’s a journey all your own. Your eyes identify hairpins, spray spouts that hairdressers use, paper clips, thread, computer ribbons and the insides of everything from watches to the sliding metal bits that support drawers. You can almost hear the works whirr. So Hashish, constructed from paper clips, backpack clips, a shining CD and twirled thread, may invite you to study its water-blue, pinks and green or Nelumbeshwar may beckon, bathed in acrylic pink and grey-black. But once you’re standing in front of a piece, you spot the zips and the hairpins. Then you simply visually dismantle Har’s work and rebuild it all over again. Zoom in, zoom out. It’s great fun.

Visualising the colour of his work demands a lot of attention, says Har. “During creation, the material is all differently coloured. So there’s a red switch next to a white panel next to a black clip. It can distract. I don’t sketch, so I have to keep a sharp focus on the final look I am working towards.” As his work evolved, Har discovered laser-cutting on a visit to a factory where he had gone to sand-blast one of his pieces. Hooked by the zingy shapes laser-cutting offered, Har promptly used it to speed up a scooter and lend an unbearable lightness of being to a flighty autorickshaw, his latest works.

The NID-trained animation designer’s scrap quest was first inspired by a spider in his bathroom in Chennai when he was a teenager. He used a table-tennis ball (for the head), a bigger plastic ball (for the body) and twisted clothes hangers to form the legs. His next idea was to create a crab, and his mother obligingly brought one home from the market so that he could study and copy it.

Winning the first Art Positive fellowship offered by Bajaj Capital Arthouse last year gave Har the confidence to believe that he could make it as an artist or ‘aesthete’ as he likes to call himself.

Q. What does the word 'aesthete' as used in the passage mean?

Ahmedabad’s Sunday market that sells junk is this 35-year-old artist’s favourite hunting ground. That’s where he picks saw-blades, printer toners, monitors, busted VCDs and hard disks, video players and other castaway gems. Back home, he painstakingly dismantles his treasure of scrap and segregates it into big pieces (the video-player’s outer case), mid-sized (the insides of a hard disk) and small pieces (innards of a mobile).

This is art you can get up, close and personal with. The works grab the viewer’s attention at several levels. Aesthetically, the creations themselves - such as Frivolity which uses feathers and terracotta diyas painted in dark fossil green that give it a strange life - appeal in a live-and-kicking sort of way.

Look a little closer and hey, you spot a zipper. Then it’s a journey all your own. Your eyes identify hairpins, spray spouts that hairdressers use, paper clips, thread, computer ribbons and the insides of everything from watches to the sliding metal bits that support drawers. You can almost hear the works whirr. So Hashish, constructed from paper clips, backpack clips, a shining CD and twirled thread, may invite you to study its water-blue, pinks and green or Nelumbeshwar may beckon, bathed in acrylic pink and grey-black. But once you’re standing in front of a piece, you spot the zips and the hairpins. Then you simply visually dismantle Har’s work and rebuild it all over again. Zoom in, zoom out. It’s great fun.

Visualising the colour of his work demands a lot of attention, says Har. “During creation, the material is all differently coloured. So there’s a red switch next to a white panel next to a black clip. It can distract. I don’t sketch, so I have to keep a sharp focus on the final look I am working towards.” As his work evolved, Har discovered laser-cutting on a visit to a factory where he had gone to sand-blast one of his pieces. Hooked by the zingy shapes laser-cutting offered, Har promptly used it to speed up a scooter and lend an unbearable lightness of being to a flighty autorickshaw, his latest works.

The NID-trained animation designer’s scrap quest was first inspired by a spider in his bathroom in Chennai when he was a teenager. He used a table-tennis ball (for the head), a bigger plastic ball (for the body) and twisted clothes hangers to form the legs. His next idea was to create a crab, and his mother obligingly brought one home from the market so that he could study and copy it.

Winning the first Art Positive fellowship offered by Bajaj Capital Arthouse last year gave Her the confidence to believe that he could make it as an artist or ‘aesthete’ as he likes to call himself.

Q. What is the Central idea of the given passage?

Ahmedabad’s Sunday market that sells junk is this 35-year-old artist’s favourite hunting ground. That’s where he picks saw-blades, printer toners, monitors, busted VCDs and hard disks, video players and other castaway gems. Back home, he painstakingly dismantles his treasure of scrap and segregates it into big pieces (the video-player’s outer case), mid-sized (the insides of a hard disk) and small pieces (innards of a mobile).

This is art you can get up, close and personal with. The works grab the viewer’s attention at several levels. Aesthetically, the creations themselves - such as Frivolity which uses feathers and terracotta diyas painted in dark fossil green that give it a strange life - appeal in a live-and-kicking sort of way.

Look a little closer and hey, you spot a zipper. Then it’s a journey all your own. Your eyes identify hairpins, spray spouts that hairdressers use, paper clips, thread, computer ribbons and the insides of everything from watches to the sliding metal bits that support drawers. You can almost hear the works whirr. So Hashish, constructed from paper clips, backpack clips, a shining CD and twirled thread, may invite you to study its water-blue, pinks and green or Nelumbeshwar may beckon, bathed in acrylic pink and grey-black. But once you’re standing in front of a piece, you spot the zips and the hairpins. Then you simply visually dismantle Har’s work and rebuild it all over again. Zoom in, zoom out. It’s great fun.

Visualising the colour of his work demands a lot of attention, says Har. “During creation, the material is all differently coloured. So there’s a red switch next to a white panel next to a black clip. It can distract. I don’t sketch, so I have to keep a sharp focus on the final look I am working towards.” As his work evolved, Har discovered laser-cutting on a visit to a factory where he had gone to sand-blast one of his pieces. Hooked by the zingy shapes laser-cutting offered, Har promptly used it to speed up a scooter and lend an unbearable lightness of being to a flighty autorickshaw, his latest works.

The NID-trained animation designer’s scrap quest was first inspired by a spider in his bathroom in Chennai when he was a teenager. He used a table-tennis ball (for the head), a bigger plastic ball (for the body) and twisted clothes hangers to form the legs. His next idea was to create a crab, and his mother obligingly brought one home from the market so that he could study and copy it.

Winning the first Art Positive fellowship offered by Bajaj Capital Arthouse last year gave Her the confidence to believe that he could make it as an artist or ‘aesthete’ as he likes to call himself.

Q. In the light of the given passage which of the following in not true?

[1]# the sun-kissed sugary white beach, amid # crackle # the palm fronds and # murmur # the white waves, I first noticed his crown, edgy, spiky, decked # a luminous reddish-purple. [2]He looked a tad tubby and awfully rugged. [3]I had heard stories about his voracious appetite and his love for solitude. [4]Yet, he mesmerized me.

[5]That monsoon morning I was ready to forgive all his flaws. [6]Faraway in the Vabbinfaru island of Maldives, I was falling in love with the enemy. [7]A predator. A deadly predator. [8]“He is the biggest enemy; he is a ruthless killer”. [9]In the thatched Banyan Tree Marine Lab, marine biologist Dr Steven P. Newman’s voice was getting drowned in the roar of the thrashing waves.[10] In the emerald waters, the coral reefs looked resplendent and by the brown wooden jetty, the sting rays were gamboling.

[11]The dhoni (traditional fishing boat) was waiting to take me on a fishing expedition, but in the world’s lowest lying country it was the enemy that had me captivated. [12]In the Marine Lab, all around lay corals, soft, pearly white corals that could serve as dainty curtains for a gnome home, red coral with symmetrical slits, stony coral, finger coral the size of fries, rubbly limestone made of petrified coral. [13]And there he was, the handsome predator for whom my heart was pounding, the crown-of-thorns starfish. [14]I was aghast that something so gorgeous could be so treacherous, it can wolf down 65sq ft of coral annually!

[15]Yes, crown-of-thorns starfish that borrows its name from venomous thorn-like spine is nemesis of coral, for it feeds on coral polyps and destroys coral reefs that act as natural barriers for waves and beach erosion.

Q. Which set of words below contains the correct set of synonyms for all of the following words: ruthless, expedition, captivate, aghast

[1]# the sun-kissed sugary white beach, amid # crackle # the palm fronds and # murmur # the white waves, I first noticed his crown, edgy, spiky, decked # a luminous reddish-purple.

[2]He looked a tad tubby and awfully rugged. [3]I had heard stories about his voracious appetite and his love for solitude. [4]Yet, he mesmerized me.

[5]That monsoon morning I was ready to forgive all his flaws. [6]Faraway in the Vabbinfaru island of Maldives, I was falling in love with the enemy. [7]A predator. A deadly predator. [8]“He is the biggest enemy; he is a ruthless killer”. [9]In the thatched Banyan Tree Marine Lab, marine biologist Dr Steven P. Newman’s voice was getting drowned in the roar of the thrashing waves.[10] In the emerald waters, the coral reefs looked resplendent and by the brown wooden jetty, the sting rays were gamboling.

[11]The dhoni (traditional fishing boat) was waiting to take me on a fishing expedition, but in the world’s lowest lying country it was the enemy that had me captivated. [12]In the Marine Lab, all around lay corals, soft, pearly white corals that could serve as dainty curtains for a gnome home, red coral with symmetrical slits, stony coral, finger coral the size of fries, rubbly limestone made of petrified coral. [13]And there he was, the handsome predator for whom my heart was pounding, the crown-of-thorns starfish. [14]I was aghast that something so gorgeous could be so treacherous, it can wolf down 65sq ft of coral annually!

[15]Yes, crown-of-thorns starfish that borrows its name from venomous thorn-like spine is nemesis of coral, for it feeds on coral polyps and destroys coral reefs that act as natural barriers for waves and beach erosion.

Q. In how many instances should the definite article (‘the’) be used in the italicized Sentence [15] to make it grammatically correct without altering it in any other way?

[1]# the sun-kissed sugary white beach, amid # crackle # the palm fronds and # murmur # the white waves, I first noticed his crown, edgy, spiky, decked # a luminous reddish-purple. [2]He looked a tad tubby and awfully rugged. [3]I had heard stories about his voracious appetite and his love for solitude. [4]Yet, he mesmerized me.

[5]That monsoon morning I was ready to forgive all his flaws. [6]Faraway in the Vabbinfaru island of Maldives, I was falling in love with the enemy. [7]A predator. A deadly predator. [8]“He is the biggest enemy; he is a ruthless killer”. [9]In the thatched Banyan Tree Marine Lab, marine biologist Dr Steven P. Newman’s voice was getting drowned in the roar of the thrashing waves.[10] In the emerald waters, the coral reefs looked resplendent and by the brown wooden jetty, the sting rays were gamboling.

[11]The dhoni (traditional fishing boat) was waiting to take me on a fishing expedition, but in the world’s lowest lying country it was the enemy that had me captivated. [12]In the Marine Lab, all around lay corals, soft, pearly white corals that could serve as dainty curtains for a gnome home, red coral with symmetrical slits, stony coral, finger coral the size of fries, rubbly limestone made of petrified coral. [13]And there he was, the handsome predator for whom my heart was pounding, the crown-of-thorns starfish. [14]I was aghast that something so gorgeous could be so treacherous, it can wolf down 65sq ft of coral annually!

[15]Yes, crown-of-thorns starfish that borrows its name from venomous thorn-like spine is nemesis of coral, for it feeds on coral polyps and destroys coral reefs that act as natural barriers for waves and beach erosion.

Q. Which of the following contains the correct sequence of missing words in the sentence [1]? (Missing words indicated by ‘#’.)

[1]# the sun-kissed sugary white beach, amid # crackle # the palm fronds and # murmur # the white waves, I first noticed his crown, edgy, spiky, decked # a luminous reddish-purple. [2]He looked a tad tubby and awfully rugged. [3]I had heard stories about his voracious appetite and his love for solitude. [4]Yet, he mesmerized me.

[5]That monsoon morning I was ready to forgive all his flaws. [6]Faraway in the Vabbinfaru island of Maldives, I was falling in love with the enemy. [7]A predator. A deadly predator. [8]“He is the biggest enemy; he is a ruthless killer”. [9]In the thatched Banyan Tree Marine Lab, marine biologist Dr Steven P. Newman’s voice was getting drowned in the roar of the thrashing waves.[10] In the emerald waters, the coral reefs looked resplendent and by the brown wooden jetty, the sting rays were gamboling.

[11]The dhoni (traditional fishing boat) was waiting to take me on a fishing expedition, but in the world’s lowest lying country it was the enemy that had me captivated. [12]In the Marine Lab, all around lay corals, soft, pearly white corals that could serve as dainty curtains for a gnome home, red coral with symmetrical slits, stony coral, finger coral the size of fries, rubbly limestone made of petrified coral. [13]And there he was, the handsome predator for whom my heart was pounding, the crown-of-thorns starfish. [14]I was aghast that something so gorgeous could be so treacherous, it can wolf down 65sq ft of coral annually!

[15]Yes, crown-of-thorns starfish that borrows its name from venomous thorn-like spine is nemesis of coral, for it feeds on coral polyps and destroys coral reefs that act as natural barriers for waves and beach erosion.

Q. What does the author mean by a predator?

[1]# the sun-kissed sugary white beach, amid # crackle # the palm fronds and # murmur # the white waves, I first noticed his crown, edgy, spiky, decked # a luminous reddish-purple. [2]He looked a tad tubby and awfully rugged. [3]I had heard stories about his voracious appetite and his love for solitude. [4]Yet, he mesmerized me.

[5]That monsoon morning I was ready to forgive all his flaws. [6]Faraway in the Vabbinfaru island of Maldives, I was falling in love with the enemy. [7]A predator. A deadly predator. [8]“He is the biggest enemy; he is a ruthless killer”. [9]In the thatched Banyan Tree Marine Lab, marine biologist Dr Steven P. Newman’s voice was getting drowned in the roar of the thrashing waves.[10] In the emerald waters, the coral reefs looked resplendent and by the brown wooden jetty, the sting rays were gamboling.

[11]The dhoni (traditional fishing boat) was waiting to take me on a fishing expedition, but in the world’s lowest lying country it was the enemy that had me captivated. [12]In the Marine Lab, all around lay corals, soft, pearly white corals that could serve as dainty curtains for a gnome home, red coral with symmetrical slits, stony coral, finger coral the size of fries, rubbly limestone made of petrified coral. [13]And there he was, the handsome predator for whom my heart was pounding, the crown-of-thorns starfish. [14]I was aghast that something so gorgeous could be so treacherous, it can wolf down 65sq ft of coral annually!

[15]Yes, crown-of-thorns starfish that borrows its name from venomous thorn-like spine is nemesis of coral, for it feeds on coral polyps and destroys coral reefs that act as natural barriers for waves and beach erosion.

Q. What is the job of coral reefs ?