Questions

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, sand and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of a world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth wide in amazement; the tube would fall off!

When would there be a risk of the tube falling off?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

With its overall popularity sliding, (the party will have been working hard) to bring in the next generation of leaders.

Tansen, a great musician of his time, was in the court of –

The famous figure of a dancing girl found in the excavation of Mohenjodaro was made up of

What happens when you boot up a PC?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

We (has finished) our lunch half an hour ago.

What will output when you compile and run the following code?

#include <stdio.h>
struct student
{

int roll;
int cgpa;
int sgpa[8];

};

void main()
{

struct student s = { 12,8,7,2,5,9 };
int *ptr;
ptr = (int *)&s;
clrscr();
printf( "%d", *(ptr+3) );
getch();

}

Who is said to have become the chief of the Jain Sangh after the death of Mahavira