Questions

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.

People may see, and hear, and feel all their lives without ____________ learning the nature of things they see. But reason is the mind's eye, and enables us to see why things are, and when and how events may be made to happen ___________ not to happen. The logician endeavours to ____________ exactly what this reason is which makes the power of men. We all, as I have said, must reason well or ill, but logic is the science of reasoning and enables us to distinguish ______________ the good reasoning which leads to truth, and the bad reasoning which every day betrays people into error _________ misfortune.

made to happen ___________ not to happen. 

The Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India pertains to the administration of tribal areas in which of the following States?

___ is a unit of length, roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun.

__________ scheme by the Central Government aims at providing free health checkups for pregnant women for the first 6 months of pregnancy.

In Lok Sabha the total number of members from states is

There are total _________ parliamentary seats (Rajya Sabha constituency) in Punjab.

In which direction does the tail of a comet point toward?

In the following question, out of the four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/phrase.
Not to mince matters