Question : Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
My grandmother, like everybody’s grandmother, was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she once had been young and pretty and had even had a husband, but that was hard to believe. My grandfather’s portrait hung above the mantelpiece in the drawing room. He wore a big turban and loose-fitting clothes. His long, white beard covered the best part of his chest, and he looked at least a hundred years old. He did not look like the sort of person who would have a wife or children. He looked as if he could only have lots and lots of grandchildren. As my grandmother being young and pretty, the thought was almost revolting. She often told us of the games she used to play as a child. That seemed quite absurd and undignified on her part, and we treated it like the fables of the prophets she used to tell us.
Question:
Select the most appropriate fact from the given options.

Option 1: The author and grandma lived for twenty years.

Option 2: Grandma was twenty years old.

Option 3: The author was twenty when Grandma died.

Option 4: The author was twenty years old when he wrote the story.

Question : Kalamkari painting refers to

Option 1: a hand-painted cotton textile in South India.

Option 2: a handmade drawing on bamboo handicrafts in Northeast India.

Option 3: a block-painted woollen cloth in the Western Himalayan region of India.

Option 4: a hand-painted decorative silk cloth in North Western India.

Question : Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
My grandmother, like everybody’s grandmother, was an old woman. She had been old and wrinkled for the twenty years that I had known her. People said that she once had been young and pretty and had even had a husband, but that was hard to believe. My grandfather’s portrait hung above the mantelpiece in the drawing room. He wore a big turban and loose-fitting clothes. His long, white beard covered the best part of his chest and he looked at least a hundred years old. He did not look the sort of person who would have a wife or children. He looked as if he could only have lots and lots of grandchildren. As my grandmother being young and pretty, the thought was almost revolting. She often told us of the games she used to play as a child. That seemed quite absurd and undignified on her part, and we treated it like the fables of the prophets she used to tell us.
Question:
Select the most appropriate inference drawn from the passage.

Option 1: The author looked upon his grandmother as an old woman like every grandmother.

Option 2: People said that the grandmother was pretty.

Option 3: Grandmother had a husband.

Option 4: Grandmother loved to talk of her childhood.

Question : Select the option that expresses the given sentence in passive voice.

Nidhi draws the diagrams.

Option 1: The diagrams are drawn by Nidhi.

Option 2: Diagrams are drawn by the Nidhi.

Option 3: The diagrams are being drawn by the Nidhi.

Option 4: It is Nidhi who is drawing the diagrams.

Question : Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.

Go back to the drawing board.

Option 1: Mediate a task.

Option 2: Accomplish a task.

Option 3: Start over.

Option 4: Leave a work.

Question : Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
Anna Pávlovna's drawing room was gradually filling. The highest Petersburg society was assembled there: people differing widely in age and character but alike in the social circle to which they belonged.

Prince Vasili's daughter, the beautiful Hélène, wore a ball dress and her badge as maid of honour. The youthful little Princess Bolkónskaya, known as the most fascinating woman in Petersburg was also there. Vasili's son, Hippolyte, Mortemart, and many others had also come.

To each new arrival, Anna Pávlovna said, "You have not yet seen my aunt," or "You do not know my aunt?" and very gravely conducted him or her to a little old lady, wearing large bows of ribbon in her cap, who had come sailing in from another room as soon as the guests began to arrive; and slowly turning her eyes from the visitor to her aunt, Anna Pávlovna mentioned each one's name and then left them.

Each visitor performed the ceremony of greeting this old aunt whom not one of them knew, not one of them wanted to know, and not one of them cared about; Anna Pávlovna observed these greetings with mournful and solemn interest and silent approval. The aunt spoke to each of them in the same words, about their health and her own.

And each visitor, though politeness prevented his showing impatience, left the old woman with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty and did not return to her the whole evening.

Question:
"The guests left the old woman with a sense of relief at having performed a vexatious duty". The duty is described as vexatious because:

Option 1: the guests were not happy when they finally left the aunt

Option 2: the guests were happy to have completed the assigned duty

Option 3: it was quite pleasing to the guests

Option 4: it was a duty they found quite annoying

Question : Comprehension:
Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.
With an impressive growth in yields, Telangana now claims to be transforming into the rice bowl of India. The Food Corporation of India (FCl) has procured 52 lakh tonnes of paddy from Telangana alone, which is more than half of the national target of 91 lakh tonnes. The state's harvests have nearly doubled in a year. Paddy production is up 93%, maize 95%, and cotton 74%, according to the Telangana Planning Department.

The state is also making its mark as a producer of paddy seed. "About 85% of our village's paddy is of a fine variety that farmers in MP, Haryana, Bengal, and Bihar use as seed," said a farmer in Anksapur Village in Nizamabad district. The seed crop sells at a premium over the state's minimum support price for paddy.

Question:
"The state is also making its mark as a producer of paddy seed." The expression underlined in the sentence means that the state is:

Option 1: drawing a mark on the map of India for paddy seeds

Option 2: trying to become number one in producing paddy seeds

Option 3: being praised for producing quality paddy seeds

Option 4: being noticed or recognised as a major supplier of paddy seeds

Question : What is bye?

Option 1: It is a method of drawing fixture

Option 2: Point system of team games

Option 3: Advantage given to a team not to play in the initial round.

Option 4: Placing of teams according to previous performance.

Question : Jeev, a partner, agreed to do the work of dissolution for which he was allowed a commission of Rs. 10,000. He agreed to bear the dissolution expenses. Actual dissolution expenses paid by Jeev were Rs. 12,000.These expenses were paid by Jeev by drawing cash from the firm. The entry will be

Option 1: Partners capital account Debited and credited realisation account Rs 12,000

Option 2: Debited partners' capital account and credited bank account with Rs 12,000

Option 3: Realiation account debited with Rs 2000 and credited bank account with Rs 2000

Option 4: none of the above