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Section I: Fill in the Blanks
1. As the Southwest monsoon ______ through most of July, flash floods caused by the waters of the Narmada hit Jabalpur town.
2. Given the scale of the challenges that ______ us today, our company proposes more viable plans for sustainability.
3. It is a really tough course, I am just worried that I won’t be able to go the ______
4. The ______ of the advancement made in agricultural productivity in India has been remarkable.
5. This essay ______ and examines various systems for water appropriation and agricultural practices adapted by society in the arid conditions of Rajasthan.
6. India has been able to successfully ______ its population through family planning programmes.
7. Adolescence is the ______ wherein a child enters adulthood.
8. The British who ruled India for 200 years were here to ______ India’s natural resources.
9. Endangered species have a fifty percent or greater probability of ______ within five years or two generations whichever is longer.
10. The first law of thermodynamics states that whereas energy can be ______ from one form into another, it cannot be created or destroyed.
Section II: Spotting Errors
11. Bread, butter and jam [a] / common breakfast items [b] / that are consumed by many households. [c] / No error [d]
12. Ten thousand dollars is the prize money [a] / being offered [b] / by the game show hosts. [c] / No error [d]
13. Three hundred and sixty five [a] / create up the number of days [b] / in a calendar year. [c] / No error [d]
14. The process of removing [a] / wool from the body of [b] / an animal is called sharing. [c] / No error [d]
15. Many people came [a] / from faraway places to prayed [b] / at the temple on the auspicious day [c] / No error [d]
16. After reading foreword of [a] / the book on environmental issues in India, [b] / I decided to meet its author. [c] / No error [d]
17. The guidance from the mentors [a] / and teachers facilitated the [b] / smooth conduct of elections to the Students’ council. [c] / No error [d]
18. The Principal of our school felicitated the students in [a] / the prize distribution ceremony. [b] / [c] / No error [d]
19. If you were to come to Chennai to settle down [a] / it will be the best possible decision. [b] / [c] / No error [d]
20. They had promised to delivered [a] / the bags before mid-March [b] / to enable us to inaugurate the shop. [c] / No error [d]
Section III: Synonyms
21. He is always captious.
22. Geomorphologists ascertain several wonderful facts about our earth.
23. The Colonel ordered the soldiers to meet him in the commissary.
24. The doctor dismembered the patient’s finger first and then cured the ailment.
25. Mr. Kumar works as a bursar in the sports academy.
26. His intentions are insidious.
27. Respect for other human beings is intrinsic to the teachings of all religions.
28. He completed the onerous task with relative ease.
29. Alfred was a potentate during the Middle Ages.
30. I abandoned the task due to indolence.
Section IV: Usage of Paired Words
31. ‘Principal’ and ‘Principle’
32. ‘Plane’ and ‘Plain’
33. ‘Pail’ and ‘Pale’
34. ‘Metal’ and ‘Mettle’
35. ‘Hail’ and ‘Hale’
36. ‘Conscious’ and ‘Conscience’
37. ‘Dissent’ and ‘Descent’
38. ‘Devise’ and ‘Device’
39. ‘Discrete’ and ‘Discreet’
40. ‘Eminent’ and ‘Imminent’
Section V: Antonyms
41. Many metals are malleable in nature and property.
42. To neglect a warning is to invite danger.
43. His ostentatious behaviour surprised everyone.
44. The experience of Covid Pandemic was excruciating for much of the population.
45. A trip to the hills was refreshing.
Section VI: Reading Comprehension
Passage
People by and large are concerned with and pursue self-interest. They are unlikely to be motivated to use renewable resources in a prudent and sustainable fashion. They are unlikely to be motivated under the following conditions: if their resource catchments are vast, so that degradation of any particular portion affects them very little; or if they have open before them possibilities of substitution as anyone resource element is depleted; or if their control over the resource base is tenuous, so that others may, at any time, deplete a resource they value, even if they use it in a restrained fashion. Indeed, exhaustive use is highly likely when anyone of these three conditions obtains. It is only when people perceive their resource catchments as limited, possibilities of substitution of exhausted resource elements as not readily feasible, and their own control over the resource base as secure, will they be motivated to use the resources in a prudent fashion. People, rooted in a locality, and retaining control over their resource base are most likely to fulfil all three prerequisites for sustainable resource use; and therefore to behave in ways conducive to the conservation of biodiversity within their localities.
46. Why, according to the writer can’t people be motivated to use a resource prudently?
1. They feel that others may overuse the resource
2. It is possible to substitute the resource
3. Abundance of the resource availability
47. When do people use resources exhaustively?
48. The self-interest of people affects the use of renewable resources ______
49. People rooted in a locality ______
50. Which among the following is closest in meaning with the word ‘deplete’?
