1) Success in all your endeavours depend ______ hard work alone.

2) My aunt agreed to take ______ and my sister to the fashion show.

3) Choose the correct spelt word out of the given alternatives

4) Choose the correct spelt word out of the given alternatives

5) Choose the correct spelt word out of the given alternatives

6) Match the statement with the correct option
A stone struck me on the head.

7) Give the correct synonym of the word in italics.
People around went into a pensive mood on seeing the devastation.

8) Select the antonym for the following:
Taking pain medicine can cause headaches to abate

9) Whatever the causes may have been, the fact remains, that now there is a great dearth of talent and great poverty in output.

10) It is my father who Kindled my passion in painting, declared riya

11) Fill in with proper conjunctions:
After months of studying hard, Kashvi ____________ cleared IAS examination.

12) Fill in with proper conjunctions:
___________ her sister, she is very introvert.

13) Fill in with proper conjunctions:
The minister apologised _______ his misconduct.

14) Fill in with proper conjunctions:
___________my exams were coming near, I started studying day and night.

15) Fill in with proper conjunctions:
Though she was ready for the show __________, she was not allowed to perform.

16) Even after a century of extensive investigation, the relation of the solar cycle to terrestrial weather. remains _______________

17) In the earliest moments of the Universe, conditions of almost inconceivable __ raged through the swelling cosmos; yet this great __ managed to produce only the simplest of atoms.

18) The Rio Gila is part of a __of rivers and cultures as significant as the __of the Tigris and the Euphrates.

19) Use the correct option to give a meaningful sentence
Female sparrows and immatures are quite nondescript compared to the adult male sparrow's distinctive and conspicuous markings: a black bib, a gray cap, and white lines trailing down from the mouth.

20) Use the proper ‘Phrasal verb’ from the given options.
I wish I could muster the courage to ____________.

21) Use the proper ‘Phrasal verb’ from the given options.
Please ___________ when you get this message.

22) Use the proper ‘Phrasal verb’ from the given options.
While reading this case study, I ________ new information about “Time Management”.

23) “If you don’t keep quite I shall shoot you”, he said to her in a calm voice.

24) I told him that he was not working hard.

25) His father ordered him to go to his room and study.

26) Female sparrows and immatures are quite nondescript compared to the adult male sparrow's distinctive and conspicuous markings: a black bib, a gray cap, and white lines trailing down from the mouth.

27) By the mid-1700s, when it began a concerted effort to prevent famine and plague, the French government had fully realized that the success of its state building projects depended on the welfare of its people.

28) She bought a silk / new / lovely / blouse

29) The shop sells old/expensive/handmade objects.

30) I’ll / see him / probably / when I come to work / in the morning / early.

31) He left the house / after his phone call / suddenly / quite.

32) Rearrange the following six sentences (A), (B), (C), (D) and (E) in the proper sequence to form a meaningful paragraph; then answer the questions given below them:

A. Technologists talk about processes, new materials, and worry about prototype results and technical problems; as regards language and interests, they have little in common with marketing.

B. As the company grows it tends increasingly to fragment into separate functional islands, each trying to solve its own problems, each using its own special language and having its own priorities.

C. Small companies that compete effectively tend to grow and growth brings increasing complexity and specialization in each function.

D. Marketing people, for instance, talk about market segmentation, market growth, promotions, and product image, and worry about changes in share.

E. Production people talk and worry about industrial relations, people arriving on time, and plant and equipment breakdown and delays.

33) There are over one hundred small white rabbits here in the laboratory today for the Raise test, immobilized by their positions in their small containers, with only their heads sticking out. An assistant is placing a drop of the newest cologne or perfume directly into each of the animal’s eyes. The bucking and kicking of these small subjects seems to indicate that they are experiencing severe pain as a result of this experiment.

Yet it seems necessary in order to ensure that humans do not experience eye injuries resulting from the use of this product. Thereafter the animals will be analyzed and destroyed. Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: “Because the animals are like us.” Ask the experimenters why it is morally OK to experiment on animals, and the answer is: “Because

the animals are not like us.” Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction. -- Professor Charles R. Mabel.

Is it right under any circumstances to experiment with animals? Do we have a moral obligation towards animals? What is an animal? Certainly, most humans would think of these small rabbits as animals that deserve our protection.

But, do humans generally consider that 25 mosquitoes, spiders, or ticks deserve the same protection? Probably not. They are not “fubsy”; the term used to describe the cuddly soft, furry, larger mammals that we generally fawn over and feel the desire to protect. Recognizing this intrinsic tendency and attempting to override it, let us then define animals as any non-human organism. Yet, this is such a wide definition that it could pertain to potential aliens. Will we witness an Alien Rights movement soon? We are then forced to narrow our field to non-human organisms that us of humans and, thus, provoke empathy in us. However, to most advocates this would seem rather unsatisfactory because it is not “fair”. Historically, philosophers like Kant (and Descartes, Malebranche and even Aquinas) did not

favor the idea of animal rights. They said that animals are the organic equivalents of machines, moved by coarse instincts, unable to experience pain (though their behavior sometimes might deceive us into mistakenly believing that they do). Thus, any moral obligation that we have towards animals is a derivative of a primary obligation, which we have towards our fellow humans. These are the indirect moral obligations theories. For example, it is wrong to torture animals because it desensitizes us to human suffering and makes us more prone to using violence towards humans.

Empathy as a differentiating principle is of little use because it is primarily structural. If the animal looks like me, resembles me, behaves like me -then he must be like me in other, more profound ways. However, this is a faulty method when used to prove identity; empathy is defined in the dictionary as pathetic fallacy. The method is too dependent upon historical, cultural, and personal contexts. That another organism looks like us, behaves like us and talks like us is no guarantee that it is like us. The creature is not capable of want, and if it were, it would neither necessarily want nor deserve our pity.

We cannot determine whether another creature, like another human, is experiencing pain, through

empathy. Additionally, pain is a value judgment and the reaction to it is not only relative, but also culturally dependent. In some cases, it can actually be perceived as positive, and be sought after. If we, humans, cannot agree and separate the objective from the subjective, the rational from the cultural - what gives us the right to decide for other organisms

(without getting their approval)? In the Aztec cultures, being chosen as a sacrifice to the gods was a high honor and a burning desire. We have no way of knowing: perhaps pigs prefer to get slaughtered. We cannot decide right and wrong, good and evil for those with whom communication is barred.

* Understand the passage and answer the following 3 questions.

For which of the following of the author’s assertions is NO support provided in the passage?

34) The author implies that an animal does not:

35) It has been said that animal experimenters “are using more and more animals whom they consider less ‘cute’,mbecause, although they know these animals suffer just as much, they believe people won’t object as strenuously into the torture of a pig or a rat as they will to that of a dog or a rabbit”. The author would probably disagree by saying that: