Choose the correct verb form from those in brackets.

The earth _ round the sun.

The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.

The absence of zebra

A-to the life and person

B-of citizens in most cities

C-crossings has become a threat

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

Many novelists from the sub-continent (has provided) scathing accounts of this period.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

Thus we (going) back to what might be termed as old values.

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

Decrease or fade gradually before coming to an end

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which is the best substitute of the words/sentence.

Annoyed or irritated and quick to take offence at petty things

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.

Be in two minds

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

While language as the medium ___________ thought may be compared to air as the medium of the sun's influence, in other _____________ it is like the skin of the body; a scurvy skin shows bad blood within, and a scurvy language shows inaccurate thought ___________ a confused mind. And as a disease once fixed on the skin reacts and poisons the blood in turn as it has first been poisoned by the blood, so careless use of language __________ indulged reacts on the mind to make it permanently and increasingly _____________, illogical, and inaccurate in its thinking.

increasingly _____________, illogical, and

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

While language as the medium ___________ thought may be compared to air as the medium of the sun's influence, in other _____________ it is like the skin of the body; a scurvy skin shows bad blood within, and a scurvy language shows inaccurate thought ___________ a confused mind. And as a disease once fixed on the skin reacts and poisons the blood in turn as it has first been poisoned by the blood, so careless use of language __________ indulged reacts on the mind to make it permanently and increasingly _____________, illogical, and inaccurate in its thinking.

use of language __________ indulged reacts