Directions : In the following items a sentence or a phrase is given with a word that is underlined, followed by four words or group of words. Select the option that is nearest in meaning to the underlined word and mark your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly. 

People have been advised not to venture into sea as the weather is likely to be inclement 

Directions : In this section each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet. 

S1: Sufism is an English word coined in the Nineteenth Century 

S6 : It may also have been suffa, the platform outside a place of Islamic worship

P. Historians have understood this term in several ways

Q. According to some scholars, it is derived from suf, meaning wool 

R. Others derive it from safa, meaning purity 

S. The word used for Sufism in Islamic texts is tasawwuf 

Directions : In this section each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet. 

S1: Al-Biruni was born in 973, in Khwarizm in _ present-day Uzbekistan 

S6 : He arrived in Ghazni as a hostage, but gradually developed a liking for the city

P. In 1017, when Sultan Mahmud invaded Khwarizm, he _ took several scholars back to his capital, Ghazni : Al-Biruni was one among them

Q. He was well versed in several languages; Syriac, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Sanskrit  

R. Khwarizm was an important centre of learning, and Al-Biruni received the best education available at the time  

S. However he did not know Greek, although he was familiar with the works of Plato and other Greek philosophers 

Directions : In this section each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet. 

S1: Vijayanagara or ‘city of victory’ was the name of both a city and an empire 

S6 : They remembered it as Hampi, a name derived from that of the local mother goddess, Pampadevi

P. In its heyday it stretched from the river Krishna in the north to the extreme south of the Indian peninsula

Q. Although it fell into ruin in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries, it continued to live in the memories of the people who inhabited the Krishna-Tungabhadra doab 

R. In 1565 the city was sacked and subsequently deserted

S. The Empire was founded in the fourteenth century