Questions

Select the synonym of

to ebb

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

By the end of this decade, doctors surely (must have discover) a cure for cancer.

What is the saddest fruit?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

(Take off) your shoes before you enter the temple.

Who is known as ' Little Corporal '

Which of the following statement(s) is/are INCORRECT?

I. Alkenes are fairly unreactive.

II. Alkenes burn with blue flame.

III. Alkanes burn with yellow flame.

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?

Rajasthan receives very little rain because