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In the following questions, you have six brief passages with five questions following each passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Everyone constantly face, challenges – at home with our spouse, children and other family members, at work with our peers and bosses. Sometimes life itself becomes a challenge because it throws up so many relationship based and situational challenges.

But the biggest challenge of them all is one’s mind. Often, it is possible to control everything else but one’s mind. being master of the world. The Bhagwad Gita says, ‘Our mind is our best friend and our worst enemy. If we know how to manage our mind, we can manage our time, our relationships, our life, everything.

This is where spirituality comes in. It is the path to a mentally decluttered, value-based life. Spirituality teaches us to control our thoughts, emotions and desires. It is actually the science of managing one’s mind.

Once we start to have control over our actions we may also find the law of attraction coming into play, Inexplicable events occur and we find things falling. In place for us. They seem to be co-incidence, but that’s the law of attractions working for you. You attract what you think. When you think positive, you get positive results.

How does the law of attraction work in life?


 




 

  • we start feeling positive

  • We make inexplicable things happen

  • We attract the things we desire

  • We attract the things we desire

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262. In the following questions, you have six brief passages with five questions following each passage. Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

The important thing in life is not what you have been but what you are reaching for and becoming. At my age, when I can see the end of the road more clearly than most, I can sit back and recollect in tranquility the varying vicissitudes of my life and what it has taught me. When I look back, I find that the great and glorious hours of my life were those when I gave a helping hand to others without expecting anything in return and not when I struggled and succeeded to gain my own ends. And I can well imagine and appreciate that in this world those alone live who live for others. I have no regrets for the past. Life has been kind to me. My only regret is that I received more from life than I gave.

What stage of life must the author be?
  • Adolescence

  • Youth

  • Middle age

  • Middle age

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In the following questions, you have six brief passages with 5 questions following each passage, Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Many people feel they come alive when out of doors, perhaps in the countryside. They are aware of the purity of the world around them, and those wonderful, awesome sounds of nature. Some folk come alive when they try to convey on a canvas, however imperfectly, the beauty of a seascape or landscape. For other again, life becomes exciting and intense when they express their thoughts on paper, in story or in prose form.

Many people come alive



  • in a pure world

  • when they are healthy

  • in the midst of nature

  • in the midst of nature

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In the following questions, you have six brief passages with 5 questions following each passage, Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Many people feel they come alive when out of doors, perhaps in the countryside. They are aware of the purity of the world around them, and those wonderful, awesome sounds of nature. Some folk come alive when they try to convey on a canvas, however imperfectly, the beauty of a seascape or landscape. For other again, life becomes exciting and intense when they express their thoughts on paper, in story or in prose form.

The passage focuses on





  • the importance of being alive

  • self expression and nature

  • environmental awareness

  • environmental awareness

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In the following questions, you have six brief passages with 5 questions following each passage, Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Many people feel they come alive when out of doors, perhaps in the countryside. They are aware of the purity of the world around them, and those wonderful, awesome sounds of nature. Some folk come alive when they try to convey on a canvas, however imperfectly, the beauty of a seascape or landscape. For other again, life becomes exciting and intense when they express their thoughts on paper, in story or in prose form.

The word 'awesome' means





  • astounding

  • cacophonous

  • fearful

  • fearful

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In the following questions, you have six brief passages with 5 questions following each passage, Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Many people feel they come alive when out of doors, perhaps in the countryside. They are aware of the purity of the world around them, and those wonderful, awesome sounds of nature. Some folk come alive when they try to convey on a canvas, however imperfectly, the beauty of a seascape or landscape. For other again, life becomes exciting and intense when they express their thoughts on paper, in story or in prose form.

The countryside offers





  • enjoyment of scenic beauty

  • life out of doors

  • a virtuous world

  • a virtuous world

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In the following questions, you have six brief passages with 5 questions following each passage, Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

Many people feel they come alive when out of doors, perhaps in the countryside. They are aware of the purity of the world around them, and those wonderful, awesome sounds of nature. Some folk come alive when they try to convey on a canvas, however imperfectly, the beauty of a seascape or landscape. For other again, life becomes exciting and intense when they express their thoughts on paper, in story or in prose form.

For many, life becomes exciting when they




  • travel to the countryside

  • enjoy landscapes and seascapes

  • opt for creative expression

  • opt for creative expression

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In the following questions, you have six brief passages with 5 questions following each passage, Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

A morning commute seems like a good time to embark on an ambitious train of thought. At least, that was the idea from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which put a professor on a train on Wednesday to lecture commuters. Passengers on the 9 am train from the suburban community of Modin to Tel Avie put away their morning tabloids and iPods to listen to a talk from professor Hanoch Gutfreund on ‘Einstein’s love letters’. The lecture was the first of the University’s Scientists on the Rails’ programmer – an attempt to broaden the appeal of higher education and bring academia to the people.

Unsure how the move would be received, the train talks have been re-scheduled for just after morning rush hour and only in one carriage on the train to avoid antagonizing people. As the train chugged through tunnels and past the airport, one woman interrupted the professor with a question.

“Will you finish your talk before we reach the station?” She wanted to know.

“Madam, by the time you reach your station, you’ll have your BA”. came the reply from the professor.

Why did the Hebrew University embark on the programme of giving lectures on the train?

  • People have motive to go to college

  • The University was testing out an innovative idea

  • The Railways wanted to reduce the stress of commuters

  • The Railways wanted to reduce the stress of commuters

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In the following questions, you have six brief passages with 5 questions following each passage, Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

A morning commute seems like a good time to embark on an ambitious train of thought. At least, that was the idea from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which put a professor on a train on Wednesday to lecture commuters. Passengers on the 9 am train from the suburban community of Modin to Tel Avie put away their morning tabloids and iPods to listen to a talk from professor Hanoch Gutfreund on ‘Einstein’s love letters’. The lecture was the first of the University’s Scientists on the Rails’ programmer – an attempt to broaden the appeal of higher education and bring academia to the people.

Unsure how the move would be received, the train talks have been re-scheduled for just after morning rush hour and only in one carriage on the train to avoid antagonizing people. As the train chugged through tunnels and past the airport, one woman interrupted the professor with a question.

“Will you finish your talk before we reach the station?” She wanted to know.

“Madam, by the time you reach your station, you’ll have your BA”. came the reply from the professor.

How did the commuters react to the professor addressing them?

  • They decided to pay attention

  • They put on their ipods to listen to the lecture

  • They had no choice in the matter

  • They had no choice in the matter

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In the following questions, you have six brief passages with 5 questions following each passage, Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.

A morning commute seems like a good time to embark on an ambitious train of thought. At least, that was the idea from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which put a professor on a train on Wednesday to lecture commuters. Passengers on the 9 am train from the suburban community of Modin to Tel Avie put away their morning tabloids and iPods to listen to a talk from professor Hanoch Gutfreund on ‘Einstein’s love letters’. The lecture was the first of the University’s Scientists on the Rails’ programmer – an attempt to broaden the appeal of higher education and bring academia to the people.

Unsure how the move would be received, the train talks have been re-scheduled for just after morning rush hour and only in one carriage on the train to avoid antagonizing people. As the train chugged through tunnels and past the airport, one woman interrupted the professor with a question.

“Will you finish your talk before we reach the station?” She wanted to know.

“Madam, by the time you reach your station, you’ll have your BA”. came the reply from the professor.

What was the purpose of giving lectures to the commuters?


  • The University wanted to utilize the travel time of commuters

  • The University wanted to give BA degrees to the commuters

  • The University had extra scientists who needed work

  • The University had extra scientists who needed work

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