Exams

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 woodpeckers of the West (with one exception) are different _______________ those of the East, and so are the flycatchers, the grosbeaks, the orioles, the tanagers, the humming-birds, _____________ many of the sparrows. ____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles (the latter are _______________ seen on the plains of Colorado, but are not common), the Rockies boast of Brewer's blackbird, ______________ habits are not as prosaic as his name would indicate.

____________ of the purple and bronzed grackles

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.

This was enough ___________ the book store-owner-turned librarian Husain to asses its valuable contents. "The preface of the book read: 'painters __________ technical knowledge to paint, but lack to understand nature, ______________ they fail to create a masterpiece," points out Husain, adding, "All I ______________ in my life is about books and from books. The grand library ___________ the palace is a cache of knowledge."

painters __________ technical knowledge to paint

Atomic number of which of the following elements is greater than that of Copper?

The pie chart shows tickets sold (in 1000s) per month by 6 different airlines (A, B, C, D, E, F). Study the diagram and answer the following questions.

Airline E sold how many more tickets than Airline A?

What is the value of {sin (90 – x) cos [π – (x – y)]} + {cos (90 – x) sin [π – (y – x)]}?

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

Apposite

The co-ordinates of the centroid of a triangle ABC are (1 , -4). What are the co-ordinates of vertex C if co-ordinates of A and B are (3 , -4) and (0 , 5) respectively?

Which script was used in Ashoka's inscriptions?