Mock IEO - 3 (Class VII)

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The Mumbai based blogger couple Kritika and Shubham, both 24 years old, had been to Nepal from 24^th to 26^th April to attend the International Nepal Tattoo Convention that was cut short by the earthquake tremor at 11:41 a.m, that slit their hotel into two parts. Everybody was panicking. The couple decided to head to the Convention, which was too far. The special force did a commendable job and finally with their help, the couple were able to reach the airport by evening. After ______ for a long time, they reached Delhi by 11:30 p.m. They saw the best and worst of humanity in those 12 hours ordeal.

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Raja Rajeshwari has been sworn-in as a Criminal Court Judge in New York by the Mayor, becoming the first India born woman to be appointed a judge in New York.
Rajeshwari, 43, who had immigrated to the US from India as a teenager, previously worked in County Office and several bureaus including Criminal Court, Narcotics, Supreme Court and the Sex Crimes Special Victims Bureau, where she last served as the Deputy Chief.
Rajeshwari took the oath with 27 other judges at various courts. She was admired for her honesty, judgements and empathy shown.

What did Rajeshwari work as before becoming a Judge in NYC?

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In what’s believed to be the biggest shutdown in the history of higher education in US, Corinthian Colleges said Sunday it’s closing its remaining 28 profit schools, effective immediately, kicking about 16,000 students out of school.
The announcement comes only a couple of weeks after the US Education Department said it was fining Corinthian $30 million for misrepresented job placement data and altered grades and attendance records.

What does the term ‘misrepresented data’ mean?

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Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) Programme is a clinically supervised programme. It is a whole family service that teaches parents and caregivers about ABA and how it can be applied in their homes and daily life. It also is a hands-on experience for children and youth to learn skills and apply them with feedback, and guidance from therapists and family. It uses the principles of learning and behaviour to improve a child’s or youth’s skills. The following are the core areas: behavioural/emotional, regulation social skills/communication skills and activities of daily living.
Parents will join the other parents in the program and learn the components of ABA and how to apply them with their children to achieve goals and see success.

What is the antonym of ‘emotional’?

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A 17-years-old girl, forced by the courts to undergo chemotherapy for her cancer, has finished that treatment and was released on Monday from the hospital where she was confined since December.
The teen identified as Cassandra C. and her mother initially refused the chemo as they wanted to explore more natural alternative treatments. While Cassandra tried to run away from medication, it was clear that she was not mature enough to make decisions herself and moreover she was not 18-years-old yet.
Cassandra said her mother surprised her Monday by bringing her best friend along for the trip to pick her up and take her home.

The word ‘confined’, as used above, means

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Aquaculture is the raising and harvesting of fresh and saltwater plants and animals. The most economically important form of agriculture is fish farming, an industry that accounts for an ever increasing share of world fisheries production.
Successful aquaculture takes into account the biology (feeding, water flow and temperature needs, and disease prevention) of the aquatic species and engineering design (water source and water quality study, water tank containment systems, water filtration and aeration).
There are potential environmental problems associated with aquaculture. Most of the fish raised are genetically altered for quick growth. If they escape in the wild, they compete against smaller and less vivacious fish. Confined fish also become breeding grounds for diseases.

The term ‘genetically altered’ means

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Children who live with only one parent, after a family breakup will suffer from problems such as tension, sadness, headaches and stomach aches, experts claimed.
A study revealed that children living with both parents in a nuclear family had the lowest score of all the psychosomatic problems scale. Girls reported more psychosomatic problems than boys.
Children with divorced or separated parents are more likely to suffer emotional problems and social maladjustments. Joint physical custody also imposes stress.

Children living with both parents in a nuclear family have

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Abraham Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois and finally to the presidency of a country divided by Civil War. Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for evolution and growth, thus illustrating what made it possible for a man so inexperienced and so unprepared for the presidency to become a great moral leader. In the most troubled of times, he was a man who led the country out of slavery and preserved a shattered union, one of the greatest presidents this country has ever seen.

In the passage above, we understand that anything is achievable with

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The River of Doubt is a black unchartered tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows, piranhas glide through its waters, boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a rolling cauldron.
After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sight on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon.
Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famous explorer accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever.

The antonym of the word ‘descent’ is

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The US government’s use of drone strikes came under mounting pressure on Friday as Pakistan joined a chorus of criticism over the policy following the accidental killings of two Al-Qaeda hostages: US aid worker Warren Weinstein and Italian national Giovanni Lo Porto. The men were inadvertently killed in CIA drone strike in January near Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the deaths highlight the risk and unintended consequences of the use of drone technology that the country has been highlighting for a long time.

The US government’s use of drone strikes came under mounting pressure due to

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Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time. An international hero, whose lifelong dedication to fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Noble Peace Prize and the Presidency of his country.
Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the centre of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.

The antonym of the word 'oppression', as used in the passage above, is