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Q1
The arguments by Aghion and Howitt were based on what principles?
Comprehension
Q2
What happens when another company invents a better product?
Comprehension
Q3
What is the meaning of the word “incremental”?
Comprehension
Q4
According to the passage, what is the purpose of a patent?
Comprehension
Q5
What is the main goal of the Aghion-Howitt model?
Comprehension
Q6
Why should R&D be subsidised, according to the first trend?
Comprehension
Q7
The phrase “rises to the top of the chain” refers to ________.
Comprehension
Q8
As per the second trend, when can an R&D investment be considered too high?
Comprehension
Q9
What does the term creative destruction mean in the passage?
Comprehension
Q10
Which statement best summarises the two trends in the passage?
Comprehension
Q11
Where did the narrator's mother and father meet?
Comprehension
Q12
Woes refer to ________.
Comprehension
Q13
Which of the following is NOT a part of the cacophony created by the rain?
Comprehension
Q14
During the months of rain, mysterious vegetations sometimes sprouted from ________.
Comprehension
Q15
The rain drove the residents of Limerick into ________, which acted as their only dry place.
Comprehension
Q16
State true or false.
The narrator's sister Margaret was four years old when his parents moved back to Ireland.
Comprehension
Q17
On the basis of your reading of the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
i. To prepare a home remedy for clearing congested passages, a paste is made out of boiled flour and nettles.
ii. The paste is wrapped in a rag while still hot.
iii. The rag with the paste is slapped on the chest after it has cooled down.
Comprehension
Q18
What, according to the narrator, figuratively settles forever in Limerick?
Comprehension
Q19
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
What does it mean for an activity to be worth someone's while?
Comprehension
Q20
What meaning does the word crumpled convey in the passage?
Comprehension
Q21
In the passage, what does the word huffing refer to?
Comprehension
Q22
How did the narrator defy the order to sleep?
Comprehension
Q23
According to the narrator, which of the following is true about going to the hospital to retrieve his mother?
Comprehension
Q24
What, according to the narrator, was/were hard for him since the day of his sister’s arrival?
Comprehension
Q25
What did teta-Jozefina guarantee?
Comprehension
Q26
The author thought that the child was very clean and beautiful.
Comprehension
Q27
Where was the author’s father when the child was born?
Comprehension
Q28
How old was the author when his sister was born?
Comprehension
Q29
What is the meaning of chuckle?
Comprehension
Q30
What is the meaning of roused?
Comprehension
Q31
What is the meaning of collaboration?
Comprehension
Q32
What is the meaning of hospitality?
Comprehension
Q33
What is the meaning of overflowed?
Comprehension
Q34
El Salvador is very quiet and calm in the mornings.
Comprehension
Q35
There were many vehicles on the road even though it was very early in the morning.
Comprehension
Q36
How many years had the author spent in El Salvador?
Comprehension
Q37
What were the large buses on the highway used as earlier?
Comprehension
Q38
Fill in the blank with the correct answer: It was ________ season, so huge lumbering trucks loaded with cane stalks—burnt, and then cut by hand with machetes—joined the fray.
Comprehension
Q39
What is the meaning of outfit?
Comprehension
Q40
What is the meaning of brittle?
Comprehension
Q41
What is the meaning of untidy?
Comprehension
Q42
What is the meaning of austere?
Comprehension
Q43
What is the meaning of dome?
Comprehension
Q44
The passage suggests that the men who emerged from the dark-shingled flat-roofed building across the street jamming caps on their heads and banging lunch buckets against their thighs were most likely ________.
Comprehension
Q45
The narrator was waiting at an airport.
Comprehension
Q46
What was the other lady carrying in her parcels?
Comprehension
Q47
What did the narrator think the stationmaster had called out?
Comprehension
Q48
Fill in the blank with the right answer: Brittle-looking birch trees with black marks on their white bark, and some kind of small untidy evergreens rolled up like ________.
Comprehension
Q49
As per this passage, how many passions ruled Bertrand Russell’s life?
Comprehension
Q50
Choose the odd one from the following options.
Comprehension
Q51
What is the meaning of longing?
Comprehension
Q52
In this passage, Russell compares passions to ________.
Comprehension
Q53
What is the meaning of “abyss”?
Comprehension
Q54
Select true or false for the following statement. Bertrand Russell sought love first because it brings ecstasy.
Comprehension
Q55
What is the meaning of “consciousness”?
Comprehension
Q56
Which one of the following words from the passage means the opposite of “giant”?
Comprehension
Q57
What is the meaning of “pity”?
Comprehension
Q58
Which one of the following words from the passage means the opposite of “hell”?
Comprehension
Q59
Which among the following is a synonym of the word “countless”?
Single correct
Q60
Which among the following is a close antonym of the word “ambitious”?
Single correct
Q61
What is the meaning of fixation?
Comprehension
Q62
Read the passage and select true or false for the following statement: The otter from the sack resembled a python.
Comprehension
Q63
What was the name of the otter?
Comprehension
Q64
What is the antonym of the word symmetrical?
Comprehension
Q65
What is the meaning of the word christened?
Comprehension
Q66
What is the synonym of the word aloof?
Comprehension
Q67
Identify the correct answer. In the beginning, the otter was ________.
Comprehension
Q68
Consider the following sentence: “By the time I got there he was up on the end of the bathtub and fumbling at the chromium taps with his paws.” Here the word fumbling means ________.
Comprehension
Q69
Which one of the following is Mijbil’s favourite toy?
Comprehension
Q70
Read the passage and select true or false for the following statement: Mijbil’s race was at length christened by zoologists as Lutrogale perspicillata maxwelli.
Comprehension
Q71
What is the meaning of scorch marks?
Comprehension
Q72
What is the meaning of taken their toll on?
Comprehension
Q73
Read the passage and choose the correct option. The desk is made of ________.
Comprehension
Q74
What is the meaning of scruples?
Comprehension
Q75
What did the author find in a junk shop?
Comprehension
Q76
Fill in the blank with the correct option. A piece of lined notepaper, and written on it in shaky handwriting: “Jim’s last letter, received ________. To be buried with me when the time comes.”
Comprehension
Q77
What is the meaning of stuck fast?
Comprehension
Q78
Choose the correct option. What did the author find in a secret drawer?
Comprehension
Q79
Choose the correct option. When did the author begin work on the desk?
Comprehension
Q80
Choose the correct option for the following statement: Veneer is a thin layer of decorative wood that is glued to a base of inferior wood.
Comprehension
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