Questions

The first Indian woman to ever win an Olympic medal was Karnam Malleswari who won a bronze medal at the Sydney Olympics in the Women's 69 kg category in Weightlifting.

Endocrine glands are glands of the endocrine system that secrete their products, hormones, directly into the blood rather than through a duct.

The major glands of the endocrine system include the

pineal gland,

pituitary gland,

pancreas,

ovaries,

testes,

thyroid gland,

parathyroid gland,

hypothalamus and

adrenal glands.

“Interim” means in or for the intervening period; provisional. Options B and C are synonyms of the word and A and E are irrelevant. “Permanent” is the word which best explains the opposite meaning of “interim”. Thus, option D is the correct answer4

From the given options, Though is the only word which gives sense for the sentence. Hence, Though pompous he was an entertaining person.

The phrase ‘between the cup and lip’ needs to be replaced with ‘between the cup and the lip’. It means a situation where things did not happen at the last minute the way they were expected to due to unforeseen reasons. Thus, the correct formation would be, ‘There is many a slip between the cup and the lip’.