Reading Comprehension

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Our hair is exposed to a lot of pollution, climatic conditions, etc. Therefore, caring is a must for hair. Experts say you are what you eat. A balanced diet of protein, vitamins and minerals is the best way to get all the nutrients needed for a healthy body, skin and hair. Omega-3 and Omega-6 improve hair texture, while lack of these will cause dandruff and dull hair. Nuts, seeds, olive oil and avocados are rich in fatty acids. Eating enough of oily fish like salmon, sardines or mackerel, or taking fish oil supplements, because it helps on all sorts of levels as what goes inside your body directly affects how your hair grows.

Healthy is a/an

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It is true that honesty is the best policy. Today, we see many things around us which are not honest. Many persons are dishonest. Dishonesty may shine for some time. It may earn money, power and men. But, all this is for a short time. Honesty is courageous, dishonesty is coward. Honesty is bound to shine after the night of dishonesty. In the end, it is dishonesty that loses the battle and honesty shines bright. Dishonesty cannot face the reality. It has to say hundred lies to hide one act of dishonesty.

The synonym of 'courageous' is ______.

The poet here asks to “let us live ________”.

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Let us live in joy, not hating those who hate us.
Among those who hate us, we live free of hate.
Let us live in joy.
Free from disease among those who are diseased.
Among those who are greedy, we live free of greed.
Let us live in joy, though we possess nothing.
Let us live feeding on joy, like the bright gods.

The poet in this poem is asking for

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You say you cannot forget
And you aren’t ready to forgive
But I need your friendship
More than you’ll know
I need you there to live
Without you by my side today
Life’s been going, oh so slow
I miss your calls, our endless talks
The places we would go
You can’t even bear to look at me,
And I know my mistake
For because of one night,
And a few thoughtless actions,
When you saw me you ran and hid.

Tides are caused due to

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The word ‘disbelief’ means

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Once, a mother duck and her ducklings were on their way to a lake. Suddenly, the mother duck saw a fox approaching. She shouted to her children to start running towards the lake. The ducklings obeyed. Then, the duck began walking up and down dragging one wing of hers on the ground.
When the fox saw this, he got happy that the duck could not fly and ran towards her. The mother duck ran, leading fox away from the lake. When she looked back and saw her ducklings already into the lake and knew that the fox now could not reach them, she stood and took a deep breath.
The fox, thinking she is tired, also slowed down, however to his disbelief, the duck spread her wings and soared high in the air.

Air pollution is caused by

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Air pollution refers to the contamination of air, irrespective of indoors or outdoors.
Air pollution is the introduction of particulates, biological molecules, or other harmful materials into Earth’s atmosphere, causing diseases, death to humans, damage to other living organisms, food crops, or the natural or built environment.         
Air pollution can be further divided into two sections - Visible air pollution and invisible air pollution. The sustainment of all things living is due to a combination of gases that collectively form the atmosphere, the imbalance caused by the increase or decrease of the percentage of these gases can be harmful for survival.

Types of pollutants:
Direct pollutants/Primary pollutant: These are direct results of pollutant process. For example, Sulfur-dioxide emitted from factories.
Indirect pollutants/Secondary pollutants: These are caused by the intermingling and reactions of primary pollutants. Smog created by the interactions of several primary pollutants.

Black holes grow in size by

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When a star burns through the last of its fuel, it may find itself collapsing. For smaller stars, up to about three times Sun’s mass, the new core will be a neutron star or a white dwarf. But, when a larger star collapses, it continues to fall in on itself to create a stellar black hole.
Black holes formed by the collapse of individual stars are (relatively) small, but incredibly dense. Such an object packs three times or more than the mass of the sun into a city- size range. This leads to a crazy amount of gravitational force, pulling on objects around it. Black holes consume the dust and gas from the galaxy around them, growing in size.
The Milky Way is said to contain a few hundred million stellar black holes.

Which is the oldest architecture found in Gujarat?

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Gujarat is a diverse and dynamic state with fascinating archaeological sites, distinctive and magnificent architecture, and exquisite handicrafts and tribal cultures. A variety of natural attractions ranging from welcoming beaches to the desert wilderness of Rann of Kutch and the rich forested slopes around the hill station of Saputara.
The state’s architecture, especially the intricately carved temples, majestic mosques and mausoleum complexes, finely carved wooden havelis, and step wells that are so beautifully sculpted that they look like subterranean palaces. Gujarat has some of the most substantial remains of the Harappan Civilisation in India at Dholavira and Lothal. It is also associated with great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel.

Where in the passage do you get to find an example of 'one good turn deserves another'?

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A young fisherman frees a huge bird from a net and in return the bird showed him a better place for fishing, where the fisherman catches a fish with gold and silver scales.
The young lad takes the fish to the king asking for his daughter’s hand in return. The princess agrees to marry the fisherman on one condition that he provides her with a key to wish house.
The lad took a lot of pains to search miles from one continent to another for the wish key, however did not find one.
He then made a whistle of a key and blew on it, he returned back to his hometown as an achiever, making all believe that he had the wish key, and demanded royalty lifestyle from king, which were fulfilled.
The princess understood what the lad was doing and could see through the cleverness of the lad, ultimately agreeing to marry the fisherman.

Public speaking is also termed as

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Public speaking is also termed as oration. It is the process or the act of performing a presentation (a speech) focused around an individual, directly speaking to a live audience in a structured, deliberate manner in order to inform, influence, or entertain them. Public speaking is probably a face to face talking of a single person to a group of listeners.
It is close to presenting, although presenting is related to commercial activity. Public speaking is to persuade the audience. In public speaking, there are five elements: who is saying what to whom using what medium with what effect?
The purpose of public speaking can range from simple transmitting information, to motivating people to act, to simply telling a story.

What were the sunflowers doing?

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I wandered lonely as a cloud,
That floats high over valleys and hills,
When all of a sudden I saw a crowd,
A host, of sunflowers,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
They stretched in never ending line,
Along the margin of a bay,
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in blooming dance.

What can be the most appropriate title of the passage?

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Which of the following drawings were not used commonly in cave paintings?

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