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.

India will host an international summit on Buddhism here on April 20 and 21. Delegates from 30 countries will participate, a notable exception (1) ________ China. Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is also unlikely to attend the two-day conclave. The maiden conference being organised by the Union Culture Ministry and the International Buddhist Confederation will discuss (2) ________ global issues through a Buddhist perspective. Over 170 delegates from countries such as Mexico, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Japan and 150 from India will participate in the summit to be held in the national capital. The delegates (3) ________ prominent scholars, monks, diplomats, and members of Buddhist organisations across the globe. The largest number of delegates are from Sri Lanka (20) and Vietnam (30). Abhijit Haldar, Director General of the International Buddhist Confederation, said that while no delegate had been confirmed from China, there would be two participants from Taiwan. “The invitations (4) ________ sent to various Buddhist institutions and not to governments,” Mr. Haldar added. He also mentioned that the Dalai Lama (5) ________ not attend the event due to health issues.

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

Option 1: been

Option 2: being

Option 3: be

Option 4: are

Question : Which Director General of ASI is responsible for the excavations leading to the discovery of two key city-sites of the Indus Valley Civilisation, in the 1920s?

Option 1: Madho Sarup Vats

Option 2: John Hubert Marshall

Option 3: James Burgess

Option 4: Mortimer Wheeler

Question : Sentences of a paragraph are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful and coherent paragraph.
A. She shot the movie on the widest canvas possible using the same kind of equipment that captured Star Wars landscapes and applied a muted colour grading to every frame.
B. She said last year that she wanted the ensemble film to look like “a faded postcard”.
C. Polley lends the central conversation a visual gravitas normally reserved for epics.
D. Women Talking, adapted by the writer-director Sarah Polley from Miriam Toews’s 2018 novel, is vibrant cinema.

Option 1: DABC

Option 2: DBCA

Option 3: CABD

Option 4: DCAB

Question : Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the highlighted word in the following sentence.
The managing director produced cogent reasons for the change in HR policies.

Option 1: Compelling

Option 2: Unconvincing

Option 3: Pertinent

Option 4: Unexpected

Question : Which Indian music director was awarded Japan's Fukuoka Prize for his outstanding contribution in creating, preserving and showcasing South Asian traditional fusion music? 

Option 1: Vishal Bharadwaj

Option 2: Pritam Chakraborty

Option 3: A. R. Rahman

Option 4: M. M. Keeravani

Question : There are few 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 infection is said to be endemic when the rate of occurance becomes static in a particular 1)________________ region, which means that main cause of the disease  — SARS-CoV-2 in this particular case — it is likely to exist but will not lead to large 2)_______________ as witnessed over the last two years.
Although it has been seen that the total number of infections in India is constantly 3)_______________, experts say they cannot provide a fixed timeline as when the disease will become endemic. It will all be dependent on the number of  people who are susceptible to this pathogen, vaccination rates, and also to emergence of new variants that are able to overcome the immune response.
“Endemic means that the virus will still remain in the population and there will be 4)_____________ ups and downs  as and when the favourable condition of the virus will exist. For example, we have seen that the seasonal flu  the number for which goes up in the winters and or especially when the season is changing because of lower immunity in people ,on the other hand we have seen the dengue cases rising after monsoons because of the availability of vectors. Covid-19 also may become seasonal and cause disease in the 5)_______________,” said Dr Pramod Garg, who is currently the director of Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI)-Faridabad.

Choose the correct word to be used in blank 3.

Option 1: declining
 

Option 2: sensitive

Option 3: attributed 

Option 4: qualifying

Question : There are few 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 infection is said to be endemic when the rate of occurance becomes static in a particular 1)________________ region, which means that main cause of the disease  — SARS-CoV-2 in this particular case — it is likely to exist but will not lead to large 2)_______________ as witnessed over the last two years.
Although it has been seen that the total number of infections in India is constantly 3)_______________, experts say they cannot provide a fixed timeline as when the disease will become endemic. It will all be dependent on the number of  people who are susceptible to this pathogen, vaccination rates, and also to emergence of new variants that are able to overcome the immune response.
“Endemic means that the virus will still remain in the population and there will be 4)_____________ ups and downs  as and when the favourable condition of the virus will exist. For example, we have seen that the seasonal flu  the number for which goes up in the winters and or especially when the season is changing because of lower immunity in people ,on the other hand we have seen the dengue cases rising after monsoons because of the availability of vectors. Covid-19 also may become seasonal and cause disease in the 5)_______________,” said Dr Pramod Garg, who is currently the director of Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (THSTI)-Faridabad.

Choose the correct word to be used in blank 4.

Option 1: publicizing

Option 2: periodic
 

Option 3: salient
 

Option 4: digressed