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  • A passage with three blanks, followed by five options, each containing one word, is given. Choose the word that can fill all the three blanks. Emission ____________ are the legal requirements governing air pollutants released into the atmosphere. Emission ___________ set quantitative limits on the permissible amount of specific air pollutants that may be released from specific sources over specific timeframes. They are generally designed to achieve air quality standards and to protect human life. Many emissions ____________ focus on regulating pollutants released by automobiles (motor cars) and other powered vehicles. Others regulate emissions from industry, power plants, small equipment such as lawn mowers and diesel generators, and other sources of air pollution. While this have been used to dictate limits for conventional pollutants such as oxides of nitrogen and oxides of sulphur (NOx and SOx), this regulatory technique may be used to regulate greenhouse gasses, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2). In the US, this is given in pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour (lbs. CO2/MWhr), and kilograms CO2/MWhr elsewhere.


  • Options
  • A. Norms
  • B. Pollutants
  • C. Factors
  • D. Standards

  • Correct Answer
  • Standards 

    Explanation

    From the given passage it is evident that we have to take the word filling the blanks in relation to the word ?emission? which means the production and discharge of something, especially gas or radiation. ?Norms? refer to a standard or pattern, especially of social behaviour, that is typical or expected. Thus ?emission norms? cannot be a correct term as it is not related social behaviour. ?Pollutants? mean a substance that pollutes something, especially water or the atmosphere. If this word is used in the given first blank it does not provide the correct term being defined. ?Factors? refer to a circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result. ?Standards? refer to a required or agreed level of quality or attainment. ?Limits? means a restriction on the size or amount of something permissible or possible. Of all the given options ?factors? and ?standards? can be seen as the most appropriate words for the given blanks. But an emission factor is a representative value that attempts to relate the quantity of a pollutant released to the atmosphere with an activity associated with the release of that pollutant. Thus, option D is the best fit answer for the given blanks 

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    • 1. A passage with three blanks, followed by five options, each containing one word, is given. Choose the word that can fill all the three blanks. The ability of humans to ___________ the landscape and recognize the consequences of doing so puts us in a peculiar position. There are several animals on earth that show this same kind of intelligence. Some animals have extensions to ___________ their environment and some do not. As a species we are assigned the duty to provide and proliferate. Our goal is to achieve stability for ourselves and our kin. However, we also have an obligation to maintain the environment, as we depend on the resources and services it provides. The question then becomes: what is our role in nature? Do we have the right to _________ the land, factory farm animals, and pollute waterways? Or do we have an obligation to reduce our numbers and merely subsist? In order to answer these questions, we must rely on our knowledge of Earth, evolution, and our influence on the environment.

    • Options
    • A. Aspects
    • B. Pollutants
    • C. Employ
    • D. Operate
      • Discuss
    • 2. A passage with three blanks, followed by five options, each containing one word, is given. Choose the word that can fill all the three blanks. Modern public administration has taken a leaf not only from the legislature?s book but also from that of the judiciary. Administrative _____________ is the latest addition to the admin istrative techniques. Administrative ____________ means the determination of questions of a judicial or quasi-judicial nature by an administrative department or agency. Like a regular court, administrative bodies hear the parties, sift evidence, and pronounce a decision in cases where legal rights or duties are involved. The main point of difference between administrative _____________ and administration of justice by the courts is that administrative justice is administered by administrative agencies instead of regular courts. The administrative courts follow the principles of natural justice and common good whereas the courts of law follow the settled principles of law and evidence. The administrative courts are manned by officers belonging to the executive branch whereas the judges are the members of the judiciary independent of executive control.

    • Options
    • A. Adjudication
    • B. Division
    • C. Hearing
    • D. Service
      • Discuss
    • 3. In each of the questions given below, a passage has been given which are either situational based or describes a scenario. Below each passage, a question has been given which is framed to make you to infer something out of it. Mark out the correct inference as your answer. A former lawmaker, Rewati Raman Bhandari, who drafted the measure that criminalised chhaupadi, said the push to eradicate the practice from villagers, the police and local politicians was still far too muted. Which of the following describes the reaction of the authorities of towards the eradication of chhaupadi?

    • Options
    • A. Subdued
    • B. Softened
    • C. Dampened
    • D. Quite
      • Discuss
    • 4. In each of the questions given below, a passage has been given which are either situational based or describes a scenario. Below each passage, a question has been given which is framed to make you to infer something out of it. Mark out the correct inference as your answer. India's leading and most popular food delivery start-up, Swiggy landed in a soup on Wednesday, after four people claiming to be current and former employees allegedly revealed fraudulent and unethical means practiced at the company, in a blog post. Which of the following can be said about the allegations?

    • Options
    • A. Defragmented
    • B. Ambiguous
    • C. Definitive
    • D. Anecdotal
      • Discuss
    • 5. In each of the questions given below, a passage has been given which are either situational based or describes a scenario. Below each passage, a question has been given which is framed to make you to infer something out of it. Mark out the correct inference as your answer. Set in the glittering balls of genteel rural society of 18th century England and verdant landscape of the idyllic Pemberley, ?Pride and Prejudice? is the story of young Elizabeth Bennett whose property is entailed to the nearest male heir. What can be said about the position of young Elizabeth Bennett in the rural society of 18th century England?

    • Options
    • A. Marginal
    • B. Immaterial
    • C. Unrelated
    • D. Extraneous
      • Discuss
    • 6. A passage with three blanks, followed by five options, each containing one word, is given. Choose the word that can fill all the three blanks. In finance, a __________ is an instrument of indebtedness of the issuer to the holders. The ___________ is a debt security, under which the issuer owes the holders a debt and is obliged to pay them interest (the coupon) or to repay the principal at a later date, termed the maturity date. Interest is usually payable at fixed intervals (semi- annual, annual, sometimes monthly). Very often it is negotiable, that is, the ownership of the instrument can be transferred in the secondary market. This means that once the transfer agents at the bank medallion stamp the same, it is highly liquid on the secondary market. Thus, a __________ is a form of loan or IOU.

    • Options
    • A. Brand
    • B. Stock
    • C. Bond
    • D. Barter
      • Discuss
    • 7. A passage with three blanks, followed by five options, each containing one word, is given. Choose the word that can fill all the three blanks. An __________ is a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bid, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder. Participants bid openly against one another, with each subsequent bid required to be higher than the previous bid. An auctioneer may announce prices, bidders may call out their bids themselves (or have a proxy call out a bid on their behalf), or bids may be submitted electronically with the highest current bid publicly displayed. In a Dutch ____________, the auctioneer begins with a high asking price for some quantity of like items; the price is lowered until a participant is willing to accept the auctioneer's price for some quantity of the goods in the lot or until the seller's reserve price is met. In economic theory, an ____________ may refer to any mechanism or set of trading rules for exchange.

    • Options
    • A. Assets
    • B. Auction
    • C. Autarky
    • D. Arbitrage
      • Discuss
    • 8. In the question given below, three paragraphs are given, which are jumbled. Find the correct sequence of these paragraphs so that they form a meaningful passage. A. The power of compounding works the way it does because you are reinvesting the interest that you earn back into the instrument, besides giving it time to grow. Let?s simplify it further. Say in the first year you invest ?100 and you get 10% annual return of ?10. Next year, along with ?110 (the first year principal amount and the interest amount), you will put another ?100. The ?10 you earned as interest gets reinvested, helping you grow your money faster. B. To get a perspective, let?s turn to some numbers. Say you started investing ?3,000 a month when you were 25, and go on till you are 60. At an average annual rate of 7% returns, your corpus will grow to ?53.24 lakh. If you decide to start investing at the age of 35 years, even if you put aside double the amount? ?6,000 per month ? till the age of 60, the value of your corpus will be only ?48.72 lakh. The example shows that you would need half the amount to get more in returns if you start investing early. C. Adulting can?t wait when it comes to savings and investing. Why you may ask? If you delay your investments, how will you see the magic of compounding? When it comes to investing, you need to start early. In fact, you should start saving and investing as soon as you start earning. Compounding allows you to build a bigger corpus with a smaller amount.

    • Options
    • A. BAC
    • B. CAB
    • C. BCA
    • D. ABC
      • Discuss
    • 9. In the question given below, three paragraphs are given, which are jumbled. Find the correct sequence of these paragraphs so that they form a meaningful passage. A. Climate change is warming the ocean, but it?s warming land faster and that?s really bad news for air quality all over the world, says a new University of California, Riverside study. The study, published February 4 in Nature Climate Change, shows that the contrast in warming between the continents and sea, called the land-sea warming contrast, drives an increased concentration of aerosols in the atmosphere that cause air pollution. Aerosols affect the climate system, including disturbances to the water cycle, as well as human health. They also cause smog and other kinds of air pollution that can lead to health problems for people, animals, and plants. B. To determine this, the researchers ran simulations of climate change under two scenarios. The first assumed a business-as-usual warming model, in which warming proceeds at a constant, upward rate. The second model probed a scenario in which the land warmed less than expected. In the business-as-usual scenario, enhanced land warming increased continental aridity and, subsequently, the concentration of aerosols that leads to more air pollution. C. A robust response to an increase in greenhouse gases is that the land is going to warm faster than the ocean. This enhanced land warming is also associated with increased continental aridity. The increase in aridity leads to decreased low cloud cover and less rain, which is the main way that aerosols are removed from the atmosphere.

    • Options
    • A. ACB
    • B. BCA
    • C. BAC
    • D. CAB
      • Discuss
    • 10. In the following question, a short passage with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank is given. Select the best out of the five answer choices given, to make the passage complete and coherent (coherent means logically complete and sound). There is a fairly universal sentiment that the use of nuclear weapons is clearly contrary to mortality and that its production probably so, does not go far enough. These activities are not only opposed to mortality but also to the law. If the legal objection can be added to the moral, the argument against the use and manufacture of these weapons will considerably be reinforced. Now the time is ripe to evaluate the responsibility of scientists who knowingly use their expertise for the construction of such weapons, which has a deleterious effect on mankind. How appropriate it is that all this valuable skill should be devoted to the manufacture of weapons of death in a world of poverty is a question that must touch the scientific conscience.

    • Options
    • A. Almost 50% of the skilled scientific manpower in the world is now engaged in the armaments industry.
    • B. To think that majority of the scientists are promoting the manufacturing of the armaments is hurtful.
    • C. Scientists should use their conscience before taking up these contracts to manufacture the weapons of mass destruction.
    • D. Scientific manpower is used to the interests of some selfish and careless people who want to threaten the existence of homo-sapiens.
      • Discuss

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