Question : Comprehension:

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

The world is undergoing rapid changes in the knowledge landscape. With various dramatic scientific and technological advances, such as the rise of big data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, many unskilled jobs worldwide may be taken over by machines, while the need for a skilled workforce, particularly involving mathematics, computer science, and data science, in conjunction with multidisciplinary abilities across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, (1)________ increasingly in greater demand. With climate change, increasing pollution, and depleting natural resources, there will be a sizeable shift in how we (2)_______ the world's energy, water, food, and sanitation needs, again resulting in the need for new skilled labour, particularly in biology, chemistry, physics, agriculture, climate science, and social science. The growing (3)________ of epidemics and pandemics will also (4)_______ collaborative research in infectious disease management and development of vaccines, and the resultant social issues heighten the need for multidisciplinary learning. There will be a growing (5)__________ for humanities and art as India moves towards becoming a developed country as well as among the three largest economies in the world.

Question:

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 1.

Option 1: is

Option 2: are

Option 3: will be

Option 4: should be

Question : Comprehension:

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.
Rabindranath Tagore founded a small school at Santiniketan in 1901 and Kala Bhavan, an art school, in 1919, which (1)________ became a part of the Visvabharati University founded in 1921. Located in an (2)________ village some distance from the city of Calcutta, Kala Bhavan presented an alternative methodology of the art training in which studio-based practice was (3)________ in favour of learning through observation and living as a part of nature. The natural surroundings, with the (4)________ of bare red earth dotted with trees, the colours of the changing seasons, and the animals and birds (5)________ inspiration to students.

Question:

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank no. 4.

Option 1: vistas

Option 2: murk

Option 3: haze

Option 4: band

Question : Select the option that arranges the given sentences in the correct sequence. The first sentence is in the correct position.
A. An ancient sage was teaching his disciples the art of archery.
B. The first disciple was then asked to describe what he saw.
C. He asked his disciples to aim at the eye of the bird.
D. He put a wooden bird as the target on the branch of a tree.

Option 1: ADBC

Option 2: ABCD

Option 3: ACBD

Option 4: ADCB

Question : Select the sentence that has a spelling error.
A- The art of living is learnt easily by those who are positive and optimistic.
B- We can learn a lot about the art of living by having a peek into the lives of great men.
C- The daily routines of these great men disseminate that they are different.
D- Their unique lifestyles help us learn certain habits and practices that they follow.

Option 1: The daily routines of these great men dissiminate that they are different

Option 2: Their unique lifestyles help us learn certain habits and practices that they followed.

Option 3: We can learn a lot about the art of living by having a peek into the lives of great men.

Option 4: The art of living is learnt easily by those who are positive and optimistic.

Question : Given below are four jumbled sentences. Select the option that gives their correct order.

A. It was designed by Eugenio Cendoya and Enric Catà in 1929.
B. The Palau Nacional is a building on the hill of Montjuïc in Barcelona.
C. Since 1934, it has been home to the Art Museum of Catalonia.
D. It was declared a National Museum in 1990.

Option 1: DCAB

Option 2: BACD

Option 3: BDCA

Option 4: CBDA

Question : Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words.
One who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field.

Option 1: Virtuous

Option 2: Virtuoso

Option 3: Gourmand

Option 4: Amateur

Question : Name the Japanese art of miniaturisation of trees.

Option 1: Bonsai

Option 2: Kirigami

Option 3: Origami

Option 4: Ikebana

Question :  There are certain words missing in the passage given below. The options given contain an answer that will fit in those given blanks. Choose the correct word to be used to make the sentence coherent and grammatically correct.

An 1)_______________ painting from 1969 by VS Gaitonde on Feburary 24 went for a price of Rs 42 crore at an auction by Pundole’s in Mumbai. This is one of highest price for which an Indian modern or contemporary artwork has been sold at an auction internationally. Gaitonde has 2)_______________ broken records in recent years, his paintings has been selling for highest prices in auctions.
For the very first time this particular oil on canvas by Gaitonde was coming into the auction market. It belongs to the Glenbarra Art Museum in Japan, which 3)_____________ the private collection of businessman Masanori Fukuoka. Gaitonde painted a limited number of canvases during his lifetime, which makes each one the most sought after.
Mamta Saran shares that Gaitonde once said that his only ambition was to join an art school, everything else was by 4)______________, including finding a book on Zen Buddhism at a bookstore in Mumbai in 1959. This was a turning point in the artist’s career. The discovery of Zen Buddhism have greatly alterrd his 5)_______________ to art, making it shift from figuration and geometric shapes to abstraction.

 Choose the correct word to be used in blank 4.

Option 1: exaggerate
 

Option 2: dissident

Option 3: accident
 

Option 4: myriad

Question : Comprehension:

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.

Each went his way, the prince to (1)_______. The rays of the court, the Brahmin to (2)______ with Parasuram, the renowned scholar-warrior. He mastered (3)________, married a virtuous woman, and (4)______ a beautiful son. (5)______ poor, he was proud of his learning.

Question:

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank number 3. 

Option 1: the supplies of war

Option 2: the art even craft of war

Option 3: the attitude of war

Option 4: the arts of war

Question : Assertion: Every manager has his /her own unique style of managing things and people ,despite learning same management theories and principles

 Reason: just like Art ,management is based on practice and creativity.

Option 1: Both assertion and reason are correct, and the reason explains the assertion.
 

Option 2: Both assertion and reason are incorrect.
 

Option 3: The assertion is correct, but the reason is incorrect.
 

Option 4: The assertion is incorrect, but the reason is correct.

Option 5: Both assertion and reason are correct, and the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion.