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The earth _ round the sun.

In the following question, a sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect speech. Out of the four alternatives suggested, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct speech.

The teacher said to the students, "Work hard now if you wish to have a better future."

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Higher crude oil prices have doubtlessly provided a significant fiscal boost in the past several months, although any (flair on) going forward can lead to a price spiral
that would have other untoward consequences as well.

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The communities of ants are sometimes very large, (numbered) even upto 500 individuals: and it is a lesson to us that no one has ever yet seen quarrel between
any two ants belonging to the same community.

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The feminist criticism (has become) a political discourse; a critical and theoretical practice committed to the struggle against patriarchy and sexism.

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In the eighteenth century, Japan's feudal overlords, from the shogun to the humblest samurai, found themselves (on) financial stress.

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Woodrow Wilson was referring to the liberal idea of the economic market when he said that the free enterprise system is the (much) efficient economic system.

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Our biological knowledge of even some of the commonest animals is (embarrassed) slight and it is here that zoos can be of inestimable value in amassing information.

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The student of human history can draw on many more natural experiments (than) just comparisons among the five inhabited continents.