1. PASSAGE The stratpsphere, specifically, the lower stratosphere has, it seems, been drying out. Water vapour is a greenhouse gas, and the cooling effect on the Earth’s climate due to this desiccation may account for a fair bit of the slowdown in the rise of global temperatures seen over the past ten years. The stratosphere sits on top of the Troposphere, the lowest, densest layer of the atmosphere. The boundary between the two, the Tropopause, is about 18km above your head, if you are in the tropics, and a few kilometres lower if you are at higher latitudes (or up a mountain). In the Troposphere, the air at higher altitudes is in general cooler than the air below it, an unstable situation in which warm and often moist air below is endlessly buoying up into cooler air above. The resultant commotion creates clouds, storms and much of the rest of the world’s weather. In the stratosphere, the air gets warmer at higher altitudes, which provides stability. The stratosphere-which expends up to about 55km, where the Mesosphere begins, is made even less weather-prone by the absence of water vapour, and thus of the clouds and precipitation to which it leads. This is because the top of the Troposphere is normally very cold, causing ascending water vapour to freeze into ice crystals that drift and fall, rather than continuing up into the Stratosphere. A little water manages to get past this cold trap. But as Dr. Solomon and her colleagues note, satellite measurements show that rather less has been doing so over the past ten years than was the case previously. Plugging the changes in water vapour into a climate mode that looks at the way different substances absorb and emit infrared radiation, they conclude that between 2000 and 2009 a drop in the Stratospheric water vapour of less than one part per million slowed the rate of warming at the Earth’s surface by about 25%. Such a small change in stratospheric water vapour can have such a large effect precisely because the Stratosphere is already dry, it is the relative change in the amount of a greenhouse gas, not its absolute level, which determines how much warming it can produce. Choose the correct answer based on the passage: What is the order of layers in the atmosphere, starting from the lowermost and going to the topmost?

Troposphere, Tropopause, Stratosphere, Mesosphere

Tropopause, Troposphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere

Troposphere, Tropopause, Mesosphere, Stratosphere

Troposphere, Stratosphere, Tropopause, Mesosphere

The stratpsphere, specifically, the lower stratosphere has, it seems, been drying out. Water vapour is a greenhouse gas, and the cooling effect on the Earth’s climate due to this desiccation may account for a fair bit of the slowdown in the rise of global temperatures seen over the past ten years. The stratosphere sits on top of the Troposphere, the lowest, densest layer of the atmosphere. The boundary between the two, the Tropopause, is about 18km above your head, if you are in the tropics, and a few kilometres lower if you are at higher latitudes (or up a mountain). In the Troposphere, the air at higher altitudes is in general cooler than the air below it, an unstable situation in which warm and often moist air below is endlessly buoying up into cooler air above. The resultant commotion creates clouds, storms and much of the rest of the world’s weather. In the stratosphere, the air gets warmer at higher altitudes, which provides stability. The stratosphere-which expends up to about 55km, where the Mesosphere begins, is made even less weather-prone by the absence of water vapour, and thus of the clouds and precipitation to which it leads. This is because the top of the Troposphere is normally very cold, causing ascending water vapour to freeze into ice crystals that drift and fall, rather than continuing up into the Stratosphere. A little water manages to get past this cold trap. But as Dr. Solomon and her colleagues note, satellite measurements show that rather less has been doing so over the past ten years than was the case previously. Plugging the changes in water vapour into a climate mode that looks at the way different substances absorb and emit infrared radiation, they conclude that between 2000 and 2009 a drop in the Stratospheric water vapour of less than one part per million slowed the rate of warming at the Earth’s surface by about 25%. Such a small change in stratospheric water vapour can have such a large effect precisely because the Stratosphere is already dry, it is the relative change in the amount of a greenhouse gas, not its absolute level, which determines how much warming it can produce. Choose the correct answer based on the passage. Why is the situation in the troposphere defined as unstable?

Because of the interaction between warm and cool air which is unpredictable in nature and can lead to storms

Because unlike the Stratosphere, there is too much water vapour in the Troposphere

Because the Troposphere is not directly linked to the Stratosphere, but through the Tropopause which creates much of the world’ weather.

Because this year of the atmosphere is very cloudy and can lead to weather related disruptions.

The stratpsphere, specifically, the lower stratosphere has, it seems, been drying out. Water vapour is a greenhouse gas, and the cooling effect on the Earth’s climate due to this desiccation may account for a fair bit of the slowdown in the rise of global temperatures seen over the past ten years. The stratosphere sits on top of the Troposphere, the lowest, densest layer of the atmosphere. The boundary between the two, the Tropopause, is about 18km above your head, if you are in the tropics, and a few kilometres lower if you are at higher latitudes (or up a mountain). In the Troposphere, the air at higher altitudes is in general cooler than the air below it, an unstable situation in which warm and often moist air below is endlessly buoying up into cooler air above. The resultant commotion creates clouds, storms and much of the rest of the world’s weather. In the stratosphere, the air gets warmer at higher altitudes, which provides stability. The stratosphere-which expends up to about 55km, where the Mesosphere begins, is made even less weather-prone by the absence of water vapour, and thus of the clouds and precipitation to which it leads. This is because the top of the Troposphere is normally very cold, causing ascending water vapour to freeze into ice crystals that drift and fall, rather than continuing up into the Stratosphere. A little water manages to get past this cold trap. But as Dr. Solomon and her colleagues note, satellite measurements show that rather less has been doing so over the past ten years than was the case previously. Plugging the changes in water vapour into a climate mode that looks at the way different substances absorb and emit infrared radiation, they conclude that between 2000 and 2009 a drop in the Stratospheric water vapour of less than one part per million slowed the rate of warming at the Earth’s surface by about 25%. Such a small change in stratospheric water vapour can have such a large effect precisely because the Stratosphere is already dry, it is the relative change in the amount of a greenhouse gas, not its absolute level, which determines how much warming it can produce. Choose the correct answer based on the passage. What accounts for the absence of water vapour in stratosphere?

Before the vapour can rise up, it has to pass through below freezing temperatures and turns into ice

The layer of Stratosphere is situated too far above for the water vapour to reach

Rising global temperatures, leading to reduced water vapour that gets absorbed in the Troposphere

The greenhouse gas gets absorbed by the clouds in the Troposphere and comes down as rain

1. PASSAGE The stratpsphere, specifically, the lower stratosphere has, it seems, been drying out. Water vapour is a greenhouse gas, and the cooling effect on the Earth’s climate due to this desiccation may account for a fair bit of the slowdown in the rise of global temperatures seen over the past ten years. The stratosphere sits on top of the Troposphere, the lowest, densest layer of the atmosphere. The boundary between the two, the Tropopause, is about 18km above your head, if you are in the tropics, and a few kilometres lower if you are at higher latitudes (or up a mountain). In the Troposphere, the air at higher altitudes is in general cooler than the air below it, an unstable situation in which warm and often moist air below is endlessly buoying up into cooler air above. The resultant commotion creates clouds, storms and much of the rest of the world’s weather. In the stratosphere, the air gets warmer at higher altitudes, which provides stability. The stratosphere-which expends up to about 55km, where the Mesosphere begins, is made even less weather-prone by the absence of water vapour, and thus of the clouds and precipitation to which it leads. This is because the top of the Troposphere is normally very cold, causing ascending water vapour to freeze into ice crystals that drift and fall, rather than continuing up into the Stratosphere. A little water manages to get past this cold trap. But as Dr. Solomon and her colleagues note, satellite measurements show that rather less has been doing so over the past ten years than was the case previously. Plugging the changes in water vapour into a climate mode that looks at the way different substances absorb and emit infrared radiation, they conclude that between 2000 and 2009 a drop in the Stratospheric water vapour of less than one part per million slowed the rate of warming at the Earth’s surface by about 25%. Such a small change in stratospheric water vapour can have such a large effect precisely because the Stratosphere is already dry, it is the relative change in the amount of a greenhouse gas, not its absolute level, which determines how much warming it can produce. Choose the correct answer based on the passage: What in the passage has been cited as the main reason affecting global temperatures?

Drop in Stratospheric water vapour of less than one part per million

Relative change in water vapour content in the Stratosphere.

The extreme dryness in the Stratosphere

Absorption and emission of infrared radiation by different substances

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30 sec • 1 pt

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete:-
Microsoft created a revolution ________ making the personal computer affordable for the middle class.

Following

After

By

Through

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete:
All the faculty members expect the HOD________ to the new curriculum proposed by Prof. Bhasin.

Agreed

Agrees

Has agreed

Was agreed

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete:
The oriental express is a Hyderabad-bound train from Delhi and it goes _______ Bhopal.

Through

Via

By

Across

4.

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Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete:
Jack Collins threw light on the importance of adequate rest_____ a proper rehabilitation process for athletes saying “the body gets fitter during the rest period after exercises and not during it”.

And

But

Since

Than

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Read the sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The letter of that part is the answer. Ignore the error of punctuation, if any:
(A) Three men ran past me and then (B) jumped of 10 steps at once to catch (C) the last train to Agra.

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B

C

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Sounds

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Stories

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Serious

Clear

Surprised

Happy

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Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete:-
Microsoft created a revolution ________ making the personal computer affordable for the middle class.

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete:
All the faculty members expect the HOD________ to the new curriculum proposed by Prof. Bhasin.

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete:
The oriental express is a Hyderabad-bound train from Delhi and it goes _______ Bhopal.

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete:
Jack Collins threw light on the importance of adequate rest_____ a proper rehabilitation process for athletes saying “the body gets fitter during the rest period after exercises and not during it”.

Select the word of phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word:
HYMNS

Select the word of phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word:
FLABBERGASTED

Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the given word:
SET OFF (OPPOSITE)

Select the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word:
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Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete:The oriental express is a Hyderabad-bound train from Delhi and it goes _______ Bhopal.

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete:Jack Collins threw light on the importance of adequate rest_____ a proper rehabilitation process for athletes saying “the body gets fitter during the rest period after exercises and not during it”.

Select the word of phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word:HYMNS

Select the word of phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word:FLABBERGASTED

Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the given word:SET OFF (OPPOSITE)

Select the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word:TREACHEROUS

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Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete:-
Microsoft created a revolution ________ making the personal computer affordable for the middle class.

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All the faculty members expect the HOD________ to the new curriculum proposed by Prof. Bhasin.

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete:
The oriental express is a Hyderabad-bound train from Delhi and it goes _______ Bhopal.

Select the correct option that fills the blank(s) to make the sentence meaningfully complete:
Jack Collins threw light on the importance of adequate rest_____ a proper rehabilitation process for athletes saying “the body gets fitter during the rest period after exercises and not during it”.

Select the word of phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word:
HYMNS

Select the word of phrase which best expresses the meaning of the given word:
FLABBERGASTED

Select the option that is most nearly OPPOSITE in meaning to the given word:
SET OFF (OPPOSITE)

Select the option that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the given word:
TREACHEROUS