Directions: The passage given below contains some blanks wherein the words have been removed. Find the word from the given options that is suitable for each blank and mark that as your answer.

Plastic and other pieces of debris have ___ A ___ found in the deepest parts of the ocean, according to a new study. A single-use plastic bag was among the 3,500 fragments ___ B ___ at a depth of 11,000 metres. More than one third of what was found was macroplastic –visible pieces of plastic larger than 5mm. The research ___ C ___ the deepest evidence of the ocean ’s pollution problem. "As the deep sea is likely to be the final destination of floating plastic debris, the frequent ___ D ___ and widespread distribution of plastic debris in the deep sea indicate that large numbers of plastic debris pieces are distributed ___ E ___ the water column and in the high seas,"the researchers said.

A

Directions: The passage given below contains some blanks wherein the words have been removed. Find the word from the given options that is suitable for each blank and mark that as your answer.

Plastic and other pieces of debris have ___ A ___ found in the deepest parts of the ocean, according to a new study. A single-use plastic bag was among the 3,500 fragments ___ B ___ at a depth of 11,000 metres. More than one third of what was found was macroplastic –visible pieces of plastic larger than 5mm. The research ___ C ___ the deepest evidence of the ocean ’s pollution problem. "As the deep sea is likely to be the final destination of floating plastic debris, the frequent ___ D ___ and widespread distribution of plastic debris in the deep sea indicate that large numbers of plastic debris pieces are distributed ___ E ___ the water column and in the high seas,"the researchers said.

B

Directions: The passage given below contains some blanks wherein the words have been removed. Find the word from the given options that is suitable for each blank and mark that as your answer.

Plastic and other pieces of debris have ___ A ___ found in the deepest parts of the ocean, according to a new study. A single-use plastic bag was among the 3,500 fragments ___ B ___ at a depth of 11,000 metres. More than one third of what was found was macroplastic –visible pieces of plastic larger than 5mm. The research ___ C ___ the deepest evidence of the ocean ’s pollution problem. "As the deep sea is likely to be the final destination of floating plastic debris, the frequent ___ D ___ and widespread distribution of plastic debris in the deep sea indicate that large numbers of plastic debris pieces are distributed ___ E ___ the water column and in the high seas,"the researchers said.

C

Directions: The passage given below contains some blanks wherein the words have been removed. Find the word from the given options that is suitable for each blank and mark that as your answer.

Plastic and other pieces of debris have ___ A ___ found in the deepest parts of the ocean, according to a new study. A single-use plastic bag was among the 3,500 fragments ___ B ___ at a depth of 11,000 metres. More than one third of what was found was macroplastic –visible pieces of plastic larger than 5mm. The research ___ C ___ the deepest evidence of the ocean ’s pollution problem. "As the deep sea is likely to be the final destination of floating plastic debris, the frequent ___ D ___ and widespread distribution of plastic debris in the deep sea indicate that large numbers of plastic debris pieces are distributed ___ E ___ the water column and in the high seas,"the researchers said.

D

Directions: The passage given below contains some blanks wherein the words have been removed. Find the word from the given options that is suitable for each blank and mark that as your answer.

Plastic and other pieces of debris have ___ A ___ found in the deepest parts of the ocean, according to a new study. A single-use plastic bag was among the 3,500 fragments ___ B ___ at a depth of 11,000 metres. More than one third of what was found was macroplastic –visible pieces of plastic larger than 5mm. The research ___ C ___ the deepest evidence of the ocean ’s pollution problem. "As the deep sea is likely to be the final destination of floating plastic debris, the frequent ___ D ___ and widespread distribution of plastic debris in the deep sea indicate that large numbers of plastic debris pieces are distributed ___ E ___ the water column and in the high seas,"the researchers said.

E

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which have been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.

India ’s ‘water crisis ’took over social media recently. Usually, a delayed monsoon or a drought, __A__with compelling images of parched lands and queues for water in urban areas raise an alarm in the minds of the public. Similarly, episodes of inter-State river water disputes catch public attention. __B__, this time, it was somewhat different. Videos and news reports claiming that Indian cities are running out of groundwater went viral. These news items could not have gained the traction but for the fact that they __C__ on a 2018 report of India ’s own Niti Aayog, which was titled ‘Composite Water Management Index: A tool for water management.’
The Niti Aayog ’s projection was only a means to an end goal: leveraging some __D__from the Indian States. The report ’s central goal was to propose a tool, an index, to monitor the States ’water resource management strategies and provide the necessary course-shift, beyond supply augmentation approaches. The report may have had a lofty goal of promoting ‘cooperative and competitive federalism ’but was, in reality, a desperate move to engage with the States, in the absence of any __E__leverage to influence their approaches to water resources management. This also __F__that the fulcrum of any course correction lies with States.
Yet, what __G__us is the question: Just how did such ‘zombie statistics ’gain traction? This is disturbing as it shows there is an absence of __H__engagement or institutional accountability. India needs to reconsider the institutional processes for dissemination of knowledge __I__water resource management. There is a certain amount of danger inherent in the casual manner __J__which knowledge about water resources is legitimised and consumed, particularly in these days of ‘viral ’information.

A

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which have been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.

India ’s ‘water crisis ’took over social media recently. Usually, a delayed monsoon or a drought, __A__with compelling images of parched lands and queues for water in urban areas raise an alarm in the minds of the public. Similarly, episodes of inter-State river water disputes catch public attention. __B__, this time, it was somewhat different. Videos and news reports claiming that Indian cities are running out of groundwater went viral. These news items could not have gained the traction but for the fact that they __C__ on a 2018 report of India ’s own Niti Aayog, which was titled ‘Composite Water Management Index: A tool for water management.’
The Niti Aayog ’s projection was only a means to an end goal: leveraging some __D__from the Indian States. The report ’s central goal was to propose a tool, an index, to monitor the States ’water resource management strategies and provide the necessary course-shift, beyond supply augmentation approaches. The report may have had a lofty goal of promoting ‘cooperative and competitive federalism ’but was, in reality, a desperate move to engage with the States, in the absence of any __E__leverage to influence their approaches to water resources management. This also __F__that the fulcrum of any course correction lies with States.
Yet, what __G__us is the question: Just how did such ‘zombie statistics ’gain traction? This is disturbing as it shows there is an absence of __H__engagement or institutional accountability. India needs to reconsider the institutional processes for dissemination of knowledge __I__water resource management. There is a certain amount of danger inherent in the casual manner __J__which knowledge about water resources is legitimised and consumed, particularly in these days of ‘viral ’information.

B

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which have been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.

India ’s ‘water crisis ’took over social media recently. Usually, a delayed monsoon or a drought, __A__with compelling images of parched lands and queues for water in urban areas raise an alarm in the minds of the public. Similarly, episodes of inter-State river water disputes catch public attention. __B__, this time, it was somewhat different. Videos and news reports claiming that Indian cities are running out of groundwater went viral. These news items could not have gained the traction but for the fact that they __C__ on a 2018 report of India ’s own Niti Aayog, which was titled ‘Composite Water Management Index: A tool for water management.’
The Niti Aayog ’s projection was only a means to an end goal: leveraging some __D__from the Indian States. The report ’s central goal was to propose a tool, an index, to monitor the States ’water resource management strategies and provide the necessary course-shift, beyond supply augmentation approaches. The report may have had a lofty goal of promoting ‘cooperative and competitive federalism ’but was, in reality, a desperate move to engage with the States, in the absence of any __E__leverage to influence their approaches to water resources management. This also __F__that the fulcrum of any course correction lies with States.
Yet, what __G__us is the question: Just how did such ‘zombie statistics ’gain traction? This is disturbing as it shows there is an absence of __H__engagement or institutional accountability. India needs to reconsider the institutional processes for dissemination of knowledge __I__water resource management. There is a certain amount of danger inherent in the casual manner __J__which knowledge about water resources is legitimised and consumed, particularly in these days of ‘viral ’information.

C

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which have been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.

India ’s ‘water crisis ’took over social media recently. Usually, a delayed monsoon or a drought, __A__with compelling images of parched lands and queues for water in urban areas raise an alarm in the minds of the public. Similarly, episodes of inter-State river water disputes catch public attention. __B__, this time, it was somewhat different. Videos and news reports claiming that Indian cities are running out of groundwater went viral. These news items could not have gained the traction but for the fact that they __C__ on a 2018 report of India ’s own Niti Aayog, which was titled ‘Composite Water Management Index: A tool for water management.’
The Niti Aayog ’s projection was only a means to an end goal: leveraging some __D__from the Indian States. The report ’s central goal was to propose a tool, an index, to monitor the States ’water resource management strategies and provide the necessary course-shift, beyond supply augmentation approaches. The report may have had a lofty goal of promoting ‘cooperative and competitive federalism ’but was, in reality, a desperate move to engage with the States, in the absence of any __E__leverage to influence their approaches to water resources management. This also __F__that the fulcrum of any course correction lies with States.
Yet, what __G__us is the question: Just how did such ‘zombie statistics ’gain traction? This is disturbing as it shows there is an absence of __H__engagement or institutional accountability. India needs to reconsider the institutional processes for dissemination of knowledge __I__water resource management. There is a certain amount of danger inherent in the casual manner __J__which knowledge about water resources is legitimised and consumed, particularly in these days of ‘viral ’information.

D

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which have been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.

India ’s ‘water crisis ’took over social media recently. Usually, a delayed monsoon or a drought, __A__with compelling images of parched lands and queues for water in urban areas raise an alarm in the minds of the public. Similarly, episodes of inter-State river water disputes catch public attention. __B__, this time, it was somewhat different. Videos and news reports claiming that Indian cities are running out of groundwater went viral. These news items could not have gained the traction but for the fact that they __C__ on a 2018 report of India ’s own Niti Aayog, which was titled ‘Composite Water Management Index: A tool for water management.’
The Niti Aayog ’s projection was only a means to an end goal: leveraging some __D__from the Indian States. The report ’s central goal was to propose a tool, an index, to monitor the States ’water resource management strategies and provide the necessary course-shift, beyond supply augmentation approaches. The report may have had a lofty goal of promoting ‘cooperative and competitive federalism ’but was, in reality, a desperate move to engage with the States, in the absence of any __E__leverage to influence their approaches to water resources management. This also __F__that the fulcrum of any course correction lies with States.
Yet, what __G__us is the question: Just how did such ‘zombie statistics ’gain traction? This is disturbing as it shows there is an absence of __H__engagement or institutional accountability. India needs to reconsider the institutional processes for dissemination of knowledge __I__water resource management. There is a certain amount of danger inherent in the casual manner __J__which knowledge about water resources is legitimised and consumed, particularly in these days of ‘viral ’information.

E

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which have been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.

India ’s ‘water crisis ’took over social media recently. Usually, a delayed monsoon or a drought, __A__with compelling images of parched lands and queues for water in urban areas raise an alarm in the minds of the public. Similarly, episodes of inter-State river water disputes catch public attention. __B__, this time, it was somewhat different. Videos and news reports claiming that Indian cities are running out of groundwater went viral. These news items could not have gained the traction but for the fact that they __C__ on a 2018 report of India ’s own Niti Aayog, which was titled ‘Composite Water Management Index: A tool for water management.’
The Niti Aayog ’s projection was only a means to an end goal: leveraging some __D__from the Indian States. The report ’s central goal was to propose a tool, an index, to monitor the States ’water resource management strategies and provide the necessary course-shift, beyond supply augmentation approaches. The report may have had a lofty goal of promoting ‘cooperative and competitive federalism ’but was, in reality, a desperate move to engage with the States, in the absence of any __E__leverage to influence their approaches to water resources management. This also __F__that the fulcrum of any course correction lies with States.
Yet, what __G__us is the question: Just how did such ‘zombie statistics ’gain traction? This is disturbing as it shows there is an absence of __H__engagement or institutional accountability. India needs to reconsider the institutional processes for dissemination of knowledge __I__water resource management. There is a certain amount of danger inherent in the casual manner __J__which knowledge about water resources is legitimised and consumed, particularly in these days of ‘viral ’information.

F

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which have been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.

India ’s ‘water crisis ’took over social media recently. Usually, a delayed monsoon or a drought, __A__with compelling images of parched lands and queues for water in urban areas raise an alarm in the minds of the public. Similarly, episodes of inter-State river water disputes catch public attention. __B__, this time, it was somewhat different. Videos and news reports claiming that Indian cities are running out of groundwater went viral. These news items could not have gained the traction but for the fact that they __C__ on a 2018 report of India ’s own Niti Aayog, which was titled ‘Composite Water Management Index: A tool for water management.’
The Niti Aayog ’s projection was only a means to an end goal: leveraging some __D__from the Indian States. The report ’s central goal was to propose a tool, an index, to monitor the States ’water resource management strategies and provide the necessary course-shift, beyond supply augmentation approaches. The report may have had a lofty goal of promoting ‘cooperative and competitive federalism ’but was, in reality, a desperate move to engage with the States, in the absence of any __E__leverage to influence their approaches to water resources management. This also __F__that the fulcrum of any course correction lies with States.
Yet, what __G__us is the question: Just how did such ‘zombie statistics ’gain traction? This is disturbing as it shows there is an absence of __H__engagement or institutional accountability. India needs to reconsider the institutional processes for dissemination of knowledge __I__water resource management. There is a certain amount of danger inherent in the casual manner __J__which knowledge about water resources is legitimised and consumed, particularly in these days of ‘viral ’information.

G

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which have been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.

India ’s ‘water crisis ’took over social media recently. Usually, a delayed monsoon or a drought, __A__with compelling images of parched lands and queues for water in urban areas raise an alarm in the minds of the public. Similarly, episodes of inter-State river water disputes catch public attention. __B__, this time, it was somewhat different. Videos and news reports claiming that Indian cities are running out of groundwater went viral. These news items could not have gained the traction but for the fact that they __C__ on a 2018 report of India ’s own Niti Aayog, which was titled ‘Composite Water Management Index: A tool for water management.’
The Niti Aayog ’s projection was only a means to an end goal: leveraging some __D__from the Indian States. The report ’s central goal was to propose a tool, an index, to monitor the States ’water resource management strategies and provide the necessary course-shift, beyond supply augmentation approaches. The report may have had a lofty goal of promoting ‘cooperative and competitive federalism ’but was, in reality, a desperate move to engage with the States, in the absence of any __E__leverage to influence their approaches to water resources management. This also __F__that the fulcrum of any course correction lies with States.
Yet, what __G__us is the question: Just how did such ‘zombie statistics ’gain traction? This is disturbing as it shows there is an absence of __H__engagement or institutional accountability. India needs to reconsider the institutional processes for dissemination of knowledge __I__water resource management. There is a certain amount of danger inherent in the casual manner __J__which knowledge about water resources is legitimised and consumed, particularly in these days of ‘viral ’information.

H

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which have been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.

India ’s ‘water crisis ’took over social media recently. Usually, a delayed monsoon or a drought, __A__with compelling images of parched lands and queues for water in urban areas raise an alarm in the minds of the public. Similarly, episodes of inter-State river water disputes catch public attention. __B__, this time, it was somewhat different. Videos and news reports claiming that Indian cities are running out of groundwater went viral. These news items could not have gained the traction but for the fact that they __C__ on a 2018 report of India ’s own Niti Aayog, which was titled ‘Composite Water Management Index: A tool for water management.’
The Niti Aayog ’s projection was only a means to an end goal: leveraging some __D__from the Indian States. The report ’s central goal was to propose a tool, an index, to monitor the States ’water resource management strategies and provide the necessary course-shift, beyond supply augmentation approaches. The report may have had a lofty goal of promoting ‘cooperative and competitive federalism ’but was, in reality, a desperate move to engage with the States, in the absence of any __E__leverage to influence their approaches to water resources management. This also __F__that the fulcrum of any course correction lies with States.
Yet, what __G__us is the question: Just how did such ‘zombie statistics ’gain traction? This is disturbing as it shows there is an absence of __H__engagement or institutional accountability. India needs to reconsider the institutional processes for dissemination of knowledge __I__water resource management. There is a certain amount of danger inherent in the casual manner __J__which knowledge about water resources is legitimised and consumed, particularly in these days of ‘viral ’information.

I

Directions: In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which have been numbered. These numbers correspond to the question numbers; against each question, five words have been suggested, one of which fills the blanks appropriately.

India ’s ‘water crisis ’took over social media recently. Usually, a delayed monsoon or a drought, __A__with compelling images of parched lands and queues for water in urban areas raise an alarm in the minds of the public. Similarly, episodes of inter-State river water disputes catch public attention. __B__, this time, it was somewhat different. Videos and news reports claiming that Indian cities are running out of groundwater went viral. These news items could not have gained the traction but for the fact that they __C__ on a 2018 report of India ’s own Niti Aayog, which was titled ‘Composite Water Management Index: A tool for water management.’
The Niti Aayog ’s projection was only a means to an end goal: leveraging some __D__from the Indian States. The report ’s central goal was to propose a tool, an index, to monitor the States ’water resource management strategies and provide the necessary course-shift, beyond supply augmentation approaches. The report may have had a lofty goal of promoting ‘cooperative and competitive federalism ’but was, in reality, a desperate move to engage with the States, in the absence of any __E__leverage to influence their approaches to water resources management. This also __F__that the fulcrum of any course correction lies with States.
Yet, what __G__us is the question: Just how did such ‘zombie statistics ’gain traction? This is disturbing as it shows there is an absence of __H__engagement or institutional accountability. India needs to reconsider the institutional processes for dissemination of knowledge __I__water resource management. There is a certain amount of danger inherent in the casual manner __J__which knowledge about water resources is legitimised and consumed, particularly in these days of ‘viral ’information.

J