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A passage is given with 5 questions following it. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The quest to find life outside the solar system got a big boost with the discovery of seven Earth-size extra-solar planets, or exoplanets, orbiting a dwarf star about 40 light years away. Unlike earlier discoveries of exoplanets, all seven planets could possibly have liquid water — a key to life as we know it on Earth — with three planets having the greatest chance. This is by far the largest collection of Earth-like planets in the habitable 'Goldilocks' zone of a star — neither too close nor too far from a star, which raises the possibility of liquid water being present on the surface. Only Earth has liquid water in the solar system. Since the dwarf star is much cooler than the Sun, the dimming of light each time a planet passes or transits before the star could be easily recorded from Earth unlike in cases when planets transit a Sun-like bright star. Since the initial discovery of three planets was made using the Chile-based Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope, the exoplanet system is called TRAPPIST-1.

The telescope TRAPPIST is in which country?

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence.

When something moves in a straight line.

In the following question, the sentence given with blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.

The big stone monument was the only __________ the lost traveller remembered.

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

backseat driver

In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

Go up the beach and watch for tourists (A)/so you could warn anyone(B)/before they get to the water.(C)No error(D)

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

By courtesy of

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

Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word.

Veracious