Question 1 :
<span></span><div>Read the telephonic conversation between Rohit and Radhika and answer the question that follows:</div><div>Rohit:&#34; Hello!&#34;</div><div>Radhika: &#34;Hello, could I speak to Shreya please?&#34;</div><div>Rohit: &#34;No, she has gone to the market to purchase balloons for her birthday party. I am her younger brother, Rohit.&#34;</div><div>Radhika: &#34;Oh! Would you convey my message to her? I am her friend Radhika.&#34;</div><div>Rohit: &#34;Of course, with pleasure.&#34;</div><div>Radhika: &#34;Tell her that I will not be able to attend her birthday party because my mother has slipped from the stairs, and I have to take her to the hospital.&#34;</div><div>Rohit: &#34;Okay, I'll convey your message to Shreya and you do take care of your mother. Bye.&#34;</div>Who is going to convey Radhika's message?

Question 2 :
<div><div><div><span>Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.</span></div></div><div><br/></div><div><span>We should preserve nature to preserve life and beauty. A beautiful landscape, full of green vegetation, will not just attract our attention but will fill us with infinite satisfaction. Unfortunately, because of modernization, much of nature is now yielding to towns, roads and industrial areas In a few places, some natural reserves are now being carved out to avert the danger of destroying nature completely. Man will perish without nature, so modern man should continue this struggle to save plants, which give us oxygen, from extinction. Moreover, nature is essential to man's health.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>Which one of the following is the correct statement? According to the passage ________.&#160;<span><br/></span>

Question 3 :
Arrange the parts to form a meaningful sentence:<br/><br/>P) <u>no conclusive evidence</u><br/>Q) <u>the enquiry committee found</u><br/>R) <u>to the airplane</u><br/>S) <u>of a thermal shock</u> <br/>

Question 4 :
<div><div><div><span>Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.</span></div></div><div><br/></div><div><span>We should preserve nature to preserve life and beauty. A beautiful landscape, full of green vegetation, will not just attract our attention but will fill us with infinite satisfaction. Unfortunately, because of modernization, much of nature is now yielding to towns, roads and industrial areas In a few places, some natural reserves are now being carved out to avert the danger of destroying nature completely. Man will perish without nature, so modern man should continue this struggle to save plants, which give us oxygen, from extinction. Moreover, nature is essential to man's health.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>What does the writer suggest?

Question 5 :
<div>Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.&#160;<br/></div><div><br/></div><div>The New Year is a time for resolutions. Mentally at least, most of us could compile formidable lists of do's and dont's. The same old favourites recur year in and year out with monotonous regularity. Past experience has taught us that certain accomplishments are beyond attainment. If we remain inveterate smokers, it is only because we have so often experienced to frustration that results from failure. Most of us fail in our efforts at self-improvement because our schemes are too ambitious and we never have time to carry them out. We also make the fundamental error of announcing our resolutions to everybody so that we look even more foolish when we slip back into our old bad ways.&#160;<br/></div><div><br/></div>'The same old favourites recur... with monotonous regularity' implies that ______.&#160;

Question 6 :
<div>Poet: &#34;Who art thou?&#34;</div><div>Rain: &#34;I am the poem of the earth.&#34;</div><div>Poet: &#34;Why have you come here?&#34;</div><div>Rain: &#34;To beautify my origin. I also want to give life to unborn seeds.&#34;</div><div>A poet asked the rain _____(1)_____. The rain answered that ____(2)____. The poet again asked it _____(3)_____. The rain replied that ____(4)____. It further told that ____(5)_____.</div><div><br/></div><div>Read the following dialogue between the poet and the rain, and fill in the blank&#160;(4) with the most appropriate option.<br/></div>

Question 7 :
<div><div><div><span>Read the passage and answer the question that follows.&#160;</span></div></div><div><span><br/></span></div><div><span>One December night, a family had gathered around their fireside and piled it high with wood gathered from mountain streams and ruins of great trees that had come falling down the mountain sides. The fire roared and brightened the room with its light. The faces of the father and mother had a quiet gladness; the children laughed; the oldest daughter was the picture of happiness at seventeen;and the aged grandmother who sat sewing in the warmest place was the picture of happiness grown old.</span></div></div><div><br/></div>The parents looked ______.&#160;

Question 8 :
Read the following sentences and answer the question that follows:<br/>a. A hunter, however, comes to the rescue and cuts the wolf open. Immediately, Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother emerge unharmed.<br/>b. This tale is about a girl called Little Red Riding Hood, she always wears the red hooded cape. Every day, the girl walks into the woods to deliver food to her grandmother.<br/>c. One day, a wolf approaches the girl and she naively tells him where she is going.<br/>d. In the meantime, the wolf goes to the grandmother's house and eats her. When the girl arrives he eats her too.<br/><span>e. He suggests the girl pick some flowers for her grandmother who was keeping unwell. She does so.</span><div><span><br/>What is the moral of the story?</span></div>

Question 9 :
<div>Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:</div><div><br/></div>Parlands alligator population has been declining in recent years primarily because of hunting. Alligators prey heavily on a species of freshwater fish that is highly valued as food by Parlanfers who had hoped that the declined in the alligator population would lead to an increase in the numbers of these fish available for human consumption. Yet the population of this fish species has also declined even though the annual number caught for human consumption has not increased.<div><br/>Which of the following if true most helps to explain the decline in the population of the fish species?</div>