Question : Directions: Which of the following interchanges of signs and numbers would make the given equation correct?
25 – 10 ÷ 5 + 15 × 30 = 55

Option 1: × and ÷, 30 and 25

Option 2: ÷ and +, 15 and 10

Option 3: × and –, 15 and 10

Option 4: + and –, 5 and 10

Question : Directions: A shepherd had 17 sheep. All but eight died. How many was he left with?

Option 1: 17

Option 2: 0

Option 3: 8

Option 4: 9

Question : If $\frac{(17)^3+(7)^3}{\left(17^2+7^2-\mathrm{k}\right)}=24$, then what is the value of $\mathrm{k}?$

Option 1: 119

Option 2: 128

Option 3: 24

Option 4: 109

Question : Bronze is an alloy of Which of the following?

Option 1: Copper and zinc

Option 2: Tin and Zinc

Option 3: Copper and Tin

Option 4: Iron and Zinc

Question : Comprehension:

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

The first time that Agha Shahid Ali spoke to me about his approaching death was on 25 April 2001. The conversation began routinely. I had telephoned to remind him that we had been invited to a friend’s house for lunch. Although he had been under treatment for cancer for some fourteen months, Shahid was still on his feet and perfectly lucid, except for occasional lapses of memory. I heard him thumbing through his engagement book and then suddenly he said: ‘Oh dear. I can’t see a thing.’ There was a brief pause and then he added: ‘I hope this doesn’t mean that I’m dying...’ I did not know how to respond: his voice was completely at odds with the content of what he had just said, light to the point of jocularity. I mumbled something innocuous: ‘No Shahid — of course not. You’ll be fine.’ He cut me short. In a tone of voice that was at once quizzical and direct, he said: ‘When it happens I hope you’ll write something about me.’

I was shocked into silence and a long moment passed before I could bring myself to say the things that people say on such occasions. ‘Shahid you’ll be fine; you have to be strong...’From the window of my study, I could see a corner of the building in which he lived, some eight blocks away. It was just a few months since he moved there: he had been living a few miles away, in Manhattan, when he had a sudden blackout in February 2000. After tests revealed that he had a malignant brain tumour, he decided to move to Brooklyn, to be close to his youngest sister, Samantha, who teaches at the Pratt Institute—a few blocks away from the street where I live. Shahid ignored my reassurances. He began to laugh and it was then that I realised that he was dead serious. I understood that he was entrusting me with a quite specific charge: he wanted me to remember him not through the spoken recitatives of memory and friendship, but through the written word.
He knew that my instincts would have led me to search for reasons to avoid writing about his death: I would have told myself that I was not a poet; that our friendship was of recent date; that there were many others who knew him much better and would be writing from greater understanding and knowledge. All this Shahid had guessed and he had decided to shut off those routes while there was still time. ‘You must write about me.’ Finally, I said: ‘Shahid, I will: I’ll do the best I can.’

Question:

What kind of person was Shahid Ali?

Option 1: Forgetful

Option 2: Full of life

Option 3: Dangerous

Option 4: Depressed

Question : Which act allows the government to confiscate the assets of newspapers in case of publishing anything “objectionable”?

Option 1: Ilbert Act, 1883

Option 2: Vernacular Press Act, 1878

Option 3: Media Act, 1883

Option 4: Newspaper Act, 1855

Question : Directions: By interchanging the given two signs which of the following equations will be correct?
× and +

Option 1: 7 × 8 ÷ 9 + 18 – 11 = 16

Option 2: 24 – 8 – 5 × 5 + 3 = 14

Option 3: 5 × 10 – 15 + 20 ÷ 25 = 8

Option 4: 24 × 8 + 6 ÷ 3 – 18 = 22

Question : Select the correct homonym from the given options to fill in the blank.
The wind________ so powerfully that the door closed.

Option 1: blow

Option 2: blew

Option 3: blues

Option 4: blue

Question : Which of the following is not a way where a batsman can get out in a game of cricket?

Option 1: Bowled

Option 2: Leg bye

Option 3: Stumped

Option 4: Leg before wicket

Question : Comprehension:

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Select the most appropriate option for each number.

Human life is (1)____ a unique blessing, which in turn depends on the (2)______ of the Self. He who is not aware of the Self can neither have peace nor can he foster peaceful coexistence. We have to link our soul with God and the body with the physical world for substance. (3)_____ the formless God is invisible to the naked eye, our mind often wanders wherever it goes. (4)_____, we are unable to develop any love for the Divine. And religion like the white light of heavens (5)______ multi-coloured fragmentations by the prisms of men and loses its gravity. Instead of uniting, it becomes a major dividing force. French philosopher Tail hard de Chardin, thinking deeply on the meaning of our existence and relationship with the Divine, expounds, "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience".

Question:

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 4.

Option 1: As a result

Option 2: As a reaction

Option 3: Causing

Option 4: As a reason