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MCQ (Single Correct Answer)

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Why do twentieth century advances not seem sustainable?
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What pushes farmers into places unsuited for agriculture?
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Which one of the following is NOT true, according to the passage, for ecological degradation?
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What is the conclusion of the author in the passage about the prospects of agriculture in the world?
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Directions: The following items have a sentence in direct or indirect speech, followed by four options. One of the options correctly converts the direct speech into indirect speech. Select the most appropriate option and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

Convert from direct into indirect speech.

Ayushi said to the group, "We have had enough of suffering today. It is time to march forward." 

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Directions: The following items have a sentence in direct or indirect speech, followed by four options. One of the options correctly converts the direct speech into indirect speech. Select the most appropriate option and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

Convert from direct speech into indirect speech.

"Alas! We lost the match by one point," said the Captain

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Directions: The following items have a sentence in direct or indirect speech, followed by four options. One of the options correctly converts the direct speech into indirect speech. Select the most appropriate option and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet.

Convert from direct speech into indirect speech.

"Where were you last week?" Alok asked Sheela

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Directions : Following items have sentences in active voice with four options. One of the options converts the active voice into passive voice correctly. Select the most appropriate option and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet. 

The king who the people loved built the castle five centuries ago 

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Directions : Following items have sentences in active voice with four options. One of the options converts the active voice into passive voice correctly. Select the most appropriate option and mark your answer on the Answer Sheet. 

The company has recruited four hundred engineers who will have to complete an internship for three weeks 

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Which one of the following is NOT the reason for the difficulty in estimating the number of languages of the world ?
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Which one of the following is a way to establish the discovery of a new language ?
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Which one of the following statements is correct ?
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‘The people may be known, but the identity of their language may not be,’ means
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Which one of the following words from passage means ‘come to be known’ ? 
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What according to the passage is the 'unwelcome form of the globalization'?

1. Globalization of the diseases

2. Elusive goal of globalization

3. History of fatal diseases

4. Selective use of antibiotics

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

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According to the passage, globalisation of health has become imperative due to
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According to the passage, resurgent diseases are affected by:

1. Medical practices

2. Overuse of antibiotics

3. Emergence of new strains

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

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According to the passage, many new diseases are emerging due to change in land use because
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What is the meaning of the word "epidemiology" in the passage?
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Which one of the following does not belong to the biotic community?

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The nature of the biotic community largely depends on:

1. Biotic components
2. Abiotic components

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

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Which of the following is not an abiotic factor?

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In the passage, the word ‘aquatic community’ refers to:

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Species are defined on the basis of:

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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

Select the correct answer using the code given below:

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When do people use resources exhaustively?
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The self-interest of people affects the use of renewable resources
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People rooted in a locality
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Which among the following is closest in meaning with the word 'deplete'?
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