Questions

Who is the only Indian economist to have won the Nobel prize?

By how many atomic mass units do subsequent members of homologous series differ?

The centre of the reflecting surface of a spherical mirror is called the

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.

The abuse of phrases and the misuse of words rife among us can be checked __________ diligent exercises in good English, such as this book provides. ___________exercises, in conjunction __________ others to be found in different volumes by the same author, will serve to correct careless diction and slovenly speech, and lead to the art of speaking and writing correctly; for, after all, ___________ in the use of words is more a matter of habit than of theory, and once it is acquired it becomes just as easy to speak or to write good English _____________ bad English.

can be checked __________ diligent exercises

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

A red rag to a bull

The question below consists of a set of labelled sentences. Out of the four options given, select the most logical order of the sentences to form a coherent paragraph.

English may be a foreign

A-countries, but not for

B-those from India

C-language for students from other

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which will improve the bracketed part of the sentence. In case no improvement is needed, select "no improvement".

The realisation came when we noticed that our children (had becoming) too dependent on us.

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

Beguile