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

Eight north Indian Ocean countries, namely, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand, were asked to contribute names so that a combined list could be compiled. Each country gave eight names and a combined list of 64 names was prepared. This list is currently in use, and all cyclones arising in the north Indian Ocean are named from this list, with one name from each country being used in turn. Almost 38 or 39 names from the list have been used up, but since many cyclones dissipate long before they hit land, their names rarely figure in the papers or other media. The names that people do know about, and remember are, naturally, those that were most destructive ones, or very recent. Aila, in 2009 is remembered with a shudder for the enormous destruction it caused in West Bengal and Bangladesh; Phaillin, also for the damage it caused when it hit the Odisha coast in 2013. Two harmless cyclones, which also might remain in people’s memory, are the more recent ones of 2014 — Hudhud, which threatened the east coast of India and Nilofar, which was expected to, but did not, devastate the western coast. The names in the cyclone list are usually words one associates with storms; words which mean water or wind or lightning in various national languages. Sometimes they are names of other things — birds or flowers or precious stones. The name ‘Aila’, contributed by the Maldives means ‘fire’, the name ‘Phaillin’ from Thailand means sapphire, the name ‘Hudhud’ from Oman is the name of a bird, probably the hoopoe, and the name ‘Nilofar’, given by Pakistan, is the Urdu name of the lotus or water lily. The eight names suggested by India, and which are in the list of 64, are Agni, Akaash, Bijli, Jal, Leher, Megh, Sagar and Vayu, meaning in that order, fire, sky, lightning, water, wave, cloud, sea and wind. Five of these names (that is, up to Leher) have been used so far.

For the next cyclone if it is the turn of an Indian name to be chosen, then what will be that name?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

The purpose of speaking is to communicate, (I chose words that are the best) for the idea I want to convey.

Improve the given sentence if necessary.

We are doing this in the interest of the poors.

Match List -I with List -II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists :

            List -I                               List-II

(Compound/Molecule)         (Shape of Molecule)

A. CH3F                            1. Trigonal planar

B. HCHO                           2. Tetrahedral

C. HCN                             3. Trigonal pyramidal

D. NH3                             4. Linear

A cube of edge 15 cm is immersed completely in a rectangular vessel containing water . If the dimensions of the base of vessel are 20 cm x 15 cm, find the rise in water level

During rainy season wooden doors are difficult to open or closure because of  ?

In HTML, ______________ is a set of links designed as buttons.

Which statement(s) is/are CORRECT regarding Dalton’s Atomic theory?

I. All matters are made of very tiny particles.

II. Atoms of different elements have different masses and chemical properties.

III. The relative number of atoms is variable in any compound.