Questions

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The instructor's rules were simple. Breathe through your mouth, not your nose; else the mask will fog up. Easier said than done; I got it wrong many a time. But once you fought habit and got the hang of it, the panoramic underwater world revealed itself to you with high-definition clarity.

Led by him, I slowly peered through the mask into what till then was crystal-clear water, shimmering in the sunlight. I saw pebbles, sand and my fluid shadow. I was in Nemo's universe. Sea cucumbers, sea anemone, clown fish, star fish, sea horses, parrot fish, butterfly fish and a bevy of colourful salt water fish swam past. A shoal of canary-yellow fish did a merry dance and another with vibrant blue fish followed it. They were oblivious to the snorkelers who struggled to take in the sight of a world so beautiful, so colourful, and resist opening their mouth wide in amazement; the tube would fall off!

What is 'Nemo'?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

But understanding what constitutes such (a miracle diet), and making sure that patients get it, isn’t as straightforward as it seems.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

P: It is said that the great poet Tulsi Dass composed it under divine inspiration.
Q: The Ramayana is a book of great social importance.
R: It is full of devotional songs besides tenets of social wisdom.
S: People read it and worship it.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

The party faithful, who

P - ­expectations, are now disillusioned
Q­ - had greeted his political arrival in 2004
R­ - with great enthusiasm, and

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Our destiny is always and only in our own hands – (inspite) all apparent evidence which may indicate otherwise.

Rearrange the parts of the sentence in correct order.

Gandhi often

P-was unnecessary violence
Q-withdrew from an act of Satyagraha if he
R-felt there

Golf player Vijay Singh belongs to which country?

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Our biological knowledge of even some of the commonest animals is (embarrassed) slight and it is here that zoos can be of inestimable value in amassing information.