Directions for the following 4 (four) items:
Read the following four passage and answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.
Passage-1
India faces a challenging immediate future in energy and climate policy-making. The problems are multiple sputtering fossil fuel production capabilities; limited noce to electricity and modern cooking fuel for the poorest; rising fuel imports in an unstable global energy contest; continued electricity pricing and governance challenges leading to its costly deficits or surplus supply, and not least, growing environmental contestation around land, water and air. But all is not bleak growing energy efficiency programmes; integrated urbanisation and transport policy discussions; inroads to enhancing energy access and security; and bold renewable energy initiatives, even if not fully conceptualised, suggest the promise of transformation,
Which one of the following statements best reflects the critical message conveyed by the passage given above?
India's energy decision-making process is ever more complex and interconnected
India's energy and climate polic heavily is tuned to sustainable development goals.
India's energy and climate actions are not compatible with its broader social,economic and environmental goals.
India's energy decision-making process is straightforward supply-oriented and ignores the demand side.
Passage - 2
There are reports that some of the antibiotics sold in the market are fed to poultry and other livestock as growth promoters. Overusing these substances can create superbugs, pathogens that are resistant to multiple drugs and could be passed along humans. Mindful of that, some farming companies have stopped using the drugs to make chickens gain weight faster. Since Denmark banned antibiotic growth promoters in the 1990s, the major pork. exporter says it is producing more pigs and the animals get fewer diseases.
Which one of the following statements best reflects the critical message conveyed by the passage given above?
People should avoid omneuming the products of animal farming
Foods of animal origin should be replaced with foods of plant origin.
Using antibiotics on animals should be banned.
Antibiotics should only be used to treat
Passage-3
Policy makers and media have placed the blame for skyrocketing food prices on a variety of factors, including high fuel prices, bad weather in key food producing countries, and the diversion of land to non-food production. Increased emphasis, however, has been placed on a surge in demand for food from the most populous emerging economies. It seems highly probable that mass consumption in these countries could be well poised to create a food crisis.
With reference to the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:
1. Oil producing countries are one of the reasons for high food prices.
2. If there is a food crisis in the world in the near future, it will be in the 'emerging economies.
Which of the above assumptions is/are valid?
Passage - 4
A central message of modern development economics is the importance of income growth, by which is meant growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP)) In theory, rising GDP creates employment and investment opportunities. As incomes grow in a country where the level of GDP wan once low, households, communities, and governments are increasingly able to set aside some funds for the production of things that make for a good life. Today GDP has assumed such a significant place in the development lexicon, that if someone mentions "economic growth", we know they mean growth in GDP.
With reference to the above passage, the following assumptions have been made :
1. Rining GDP is essential for a country to be a developed country.
2. Rising GDP guarantees a reasonable distribution of income to all households.
Which of the above assumptions is/are valid ?
Replace the incorrect term by the correct term in the given sequence
3,2,7, 4, 18, 19, 21, 18, 31, 28, 43, 40
where odd terms and even terms follow the same pattern.
Following is a matrix of certain entries. The entries follow a certain trend row-wise. Choose the missing entry (?) accordingly.
You are given two identical sequences in two rows: 
What is the entry in the place of C for the Sequence-II?
A person X from a place A and another person Y from a place B set out at the same time to walk towards each other. The places are separated by a distance of 15 km. X walks with a uniform speed of 1.5 km/hr and Y walks with a uniform speed of 1 km/hr in the first hour, with a uniform speed of 1.25 km/hr in the second hour and with a uniform speed of 1.5 km/hr in the third hour and so on.
Which of the following is/are correct?
1. They take 5 hours to meet.
2 They meet midway between A and B.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
