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

To know language is to be able to speak it; even a child who does not yet attend school can speak his or her language. In order to speak a language it is important to listen to it and to read a few pages in it everyday. A child picks up language and learns to talk just as (s)he learns to walk. Walking and talking comes naturally to a child as it grows. In our country, a child may grow up speaking more than one language, if these languages are spoken in the home and in the neighbourhood. we call this multilingualism. A child speaks a language or languages much before (s)he starts going to school. To know a language then is first of all to be able to speak it as easily and naturally as a tree year old child does. Later on the child will learn to read and write in that language. In order to read and write in a language, one has to speak it. But it is possible to speak a language but not able to read or write in it. A baby does not speak until it is nine months old but it understands a few words at six months of age. It has been listening ever since it was born, and even a little before that. So the first strategy in speaking a language is to listen.

One of the activities of a child before it is even born is

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 driver said, "I have been waiting here at the airport since two hours for my master."

In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

Equally disappointing is the court's ________________, one-paragraph dismissal of the claim that criminal ________________ creates a chilling effect upon speech. Such proclamations are easy _______________ from the high, secure, and insulated bench of the Supreme Court. It is journalists and newspapers, fighting hundreds of _____________ cases in court, _______________ have to deal with the very real consequences.

It is journalists and newspapers, fighting hundreds of _____________ cases in court

From the given words, select the word which cannot be formed using the letters of the given word. ALTERNATIVES

The length of a chord which is at a distance of 5cm from the centre of a circle of radius 13cm is

Roshan Lal, who won the Guru Dronacharya Award for 2017, is associated with which stream of sport?

Who has authored the book titled "Insomnia : Army Stories" featuring stories based on life in the armed forces?

Who wrote the Indian historical fiction novel 'The Rise of Sivagami' published in March 2017?