Questions

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the one which is opposite in meaning of the given word.

Rotund

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 chasm ______________ the needs of the people who struggle ______________ survival, action and inaction by representatives, and lack of remedial justice has compromised representative democracy _________________. Defections from one party to another indicate _______________ of the basic obligations of representatives, even ___________ their own people starve.

who struggle ______________ survival, action

Article 31B of the Indian Constitution "Validation of certain Acts and Regulations" deals with the

American astronaut Scott Joseph Kelly commanded the International Space Station Consecutively for 340 days on ___.

On 10 April 2017, Lok Sabha passed the Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2016. The Bill seeks to amend ______

The following table gives the details of the number of students in class 10 section A and B who had taken mid-term and final exam. The % of students in section A is ____ (round to one decimal).

During the day, the direction of the wind would be from the __________________

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

The man who is perpetually hesitating which of the two things he will do first, will do neither. The man who resolves, but suffers his resolution to be changed by the first counter-suggestion of a friend, - who fluctuates from opinion to opinion, from plan to plan, and veers like a weather-cock to every point of the compass, with every breath of caprice that blows-can never accomplish anything great or useful. Instead of being progressive in any thing, he will be at best stationary, and more probably retrograde in all. It is only the man who first consults wisely, then resolves firmly, and then executes his purpose with flexible perseverance, undismayed by those petty difficulties which daunt a weaker spirit that can advance to eminence in any line. Take your course wisely, but firmly; and having taken it, hold upon it with heroic resolution, and the Alps and Pyrenees will sink before you.

The writer advises us to be ______.