Question : Comprehension:
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
India's favourable demographic trends, which have increased the workforce's percentage of the overall population, have paved the way for a significant middle-class expansion. A big population bulge emerging from absolute poverty and set to reach the middle class would generate new dynamics. In India, over 55 percent of the population is predicted to reach the middle class. In reality, because India's demographics are significantly younger than China and the United States, the country's middle class might be the world's largest (in terms of population) by 2025.
It is no exaggeration to argue that future growth will be reliant on the increasing middle class and that the middle class's development will be reliant on growth. Growth has been fuelled by both private consumption and saving, both of which are fuelled by the middle class. India's private consumption accounts for over 60% of the country's GDP, while private consumption growth has contributed to 70% of the country's growth since 2000.
Even though China's middle class is now greater than India's, private spending in the former accounts for a lesser share of growth. In contrast to the United States, where domestic savings are dropping and the country borrows excess funds from outside to invest and expand, India's domestic savings and investments are increasing and funding investments. The emergence of the middle class is anticipated to coincide with a transition away from large-scale informality, which now characterises much of the services and industrial sectors, and toward more formal, wage-earning, and medium-scale firms. Technological advancements will spread at a faster rate. Cities will expand as job possibilities concentrate on them. If there is enough movement across states and from rural to urban regions, the population increase will be more evenly distributed.

Question:
What is the tone of the passage?

Option 1: Critical

Option 2: Objective

Option 3: Subjective

Option 4: Didactic

Question : Statement 1: India, Pakistan, and China have experienced rapid economic growth in recent years.

Statement 2: The growth has been driven by increased investments, technological advancements, and global trade.

Option 1: Both statements are true.

Option 2: Both statements are false.

Option 3: Statement 1 is true, Statement 2 is false.

Option 4: Statement 2 is true, Statement 1 is false.

Question : Comprehension:

Read the following passage and answer the questions given after it.

New Delhi: India is set to surpass China as the world's most populous country in 2023, with each counting more than 1.4 billion residents this year, a United Nations report said on Monday, warning that high fertility would challenge economic growth.

The world's population, estimated to reach 8 billion by November 15 this year, could grow to 8.5 billion in 2030 and 10.4 billion in 2100 as the pace of mortality slows, said the report released on World Population Day.

India's population was 1.21 billion in 2011, according to the domestic census, which is conducted once a decade. The government had deferred the 2021 census due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The world's population was growing at its slowest pace since 1950, having fallen below 1 per cent in 2020, UN estimates showed.

In 2021, the average fertility of the world's population stood at 2.3 births per woman over a lifetime, having fallen from about 5 births in 1950. Global fertility is projected to decline further to 2.1 births per woman by 2050.

Referring to an earlier World Health Organisation report estimating about 14.9 million deaths relating to the COVID-19 pandemic between January 2020 and December 2021, the UN report said global life expectancy at birth fell to 71 years in 2021 from 72.8 years in 2019, mostly due to the pandemic.

The United Nations said more than half of the projected increase in the global population up to 2050 will be concentrated in eight countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, and Tanzania. Countries in sub-Saharan Africa are expected to contribute more than half of the increase anticipated through 2050.

However, the population of 61 countries is projected to decrease by 1% or more between 2022 and 2050, driven by a fall in fertility.

Question:
After reading the above passage, it can be inferred that it is

Option 1: a news item

Option 2: a research report

Option 3: a magazine article

Option 4: a survey report

Question : Which country among India, Pakistan, and China has the highest Human Development Index (HDI)?

Option 1: India

Option 2: Pakistan

Option 3: China

Option 4: Cannot be determined

Question : Which four countries are called the Asian Tigers ?

Option 1: Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan

Option 2: Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Taiwan

Option 3: Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, China

Option 4: Hong Kong, South Korea, China, Taiwan

Question : Assertion: Pakistan has a higher infant mortality rate compared to India and China.

Reason: Greater access to healthcare facilities and awareness about proper healthcare practices contribute to high infant mortality in Pakistan.

Option 1: Both assertion and reason are true, and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion.

Option 2: Both assertion and reason are true, but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion.

Option 3: Assertion is true, but the reason is false.

Option 4: Assertion is false, but the reason is true.

Question : The fertility rate is low in __, very high in ____.
 

Option 1: China and India
 

Option 2: China and Pakistan
 

Option 3: India and China
 

Option 4: India and Pakistan 
 

Question : Which of the following countries has formed an association (BRICS) of five major emerging national economies?

Option 1: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa

Option 2: Brussels, Russia, India, Chile, South Africa

Option 3: Brussels, Russia, India, Chile, Switzerland

Option 4: Brazil, Romania, India, China, Switzerland

Question : Which conflict has been a persistent issue in the region of South Asia, involving multiple countries?  
    

Option 1: The Indo-China border dispute  
     

Option 2: The Afghan-Pakistan border conflict  
      

Option 3: The Bangladesh-Myanmar refugee crisis  

Option 4: The India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir  

Question : Which leader is most associated with the beginning of the post-Mao era in China?

Option 1: Deng Xiaoping

Option 2: Zhou Enlai

Option 3: Jiang Zemin

Option 4: Hu Jintao