Q1:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Grammar
Easy
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the most appropriate option: Rajesh has a weird habit of not leaving the stage ____ he gets a standing ovation.
Correct Answer
Option 3
Correct Answer
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Q2:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Grammar
Easy
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the most appropriate option: Yamuna is more polluted than _________ river in this country.
Correct Answer
Option 4
Correct Answer
Q3:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Antonyms
Easy
Choose the antonym of the word- **Eradicate** from the given options:
Correct Answer
Option 1
Correct Answer
Q4:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Grammar
Easy
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the most appropriate option: I have not met him,___ do I wish to meet him.
Correct Answer
Option 3
Correct Answer
Q5:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Word Usage
Easy
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the most appropriate option: Rajesh _____ explained the complicated nature of the issue that he was facing to the head coach.
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q6:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Rearrangement
Medium
Rearrange the following phrases to make a meaningful sentence: A. for almost her entire adult life, B. was dogged by the paparazzi C. who kept following her on their motorbikes D. Diana, Princess of Wales, Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 3
Correct Answer
Q7:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Idioms
Easy
Choose the appropriate idiom from the options to complete the given sentence: The patriarch was __________ with the househelp in poisioning the halwa.
Correct Answer
Option 1
Correct Answer
Q8:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Rearrangement
Medium
Rearrange the following phrases to make a meaningful sentence: A. and completing some business ventures in Calcutta, B. in his adulthood, after journeying within and outside India C. and the association was more than merely official D. he served in the districts under two British officials- Woodforde and Digby Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 3
Correct Answer
Q9:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Rearrangement
Medium
Rearrange the following parts to make a meaningful sentence: A. struck her one evening when she was getting ready B. that the convent would be better than the state in which she lived C. for yet another tedious date and lay in the tub thinking D. it seems the notion of becoming a missionary Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q10:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Word Usage
Easy
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with an appropriate word: The vegetable soup will ------- your appetite for more food.
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q11:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Synonyms
Easy
Match the words given in LIST-I with the similar meaning words given in LIST-II | LIST-I (Words) | LIST-II (Synonyms) | |---|---| | A. Vouch | I. Admonish | | B. Reprimand | II. Vulgar | | C. Uncouth | III. Confirm | | D. Deride | IV. Mock | Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q12:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Rearrangement
Medium
Rearrange the following parts to make a meaningful sentence: A. a gentleman trooper of the imperial guards, B. his fellow citizens to violence C. the Kotwal discovered that a man called Habiyat, D. had been instrumental in inciting Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 4
Correct Answer
Q13:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Word Usage
Easy
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the most appropriate option: The committee has __________ been disbanded, though no official announcements have been made and the company website still features the name of the committee.
Correct Answer
Option 1
Correct Answer
Q14:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Antonyms
Medium
Match the words given in List-I with their opposite words given in list List-II | LIST-I (Word) | LIST-II (Antonym) | |---|---| | A. Vehement | I. Immaterial | | B. Cajole | II. Wavering | | C. Substantial | III. Depreciate | | D. Exalt | IV. Scorn | Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 3
Correct Answer
Q15:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Idioms
Easy
Choose the correct meaning of the idiom: **A dark horse** from the given options:
Correct Answer
Option 1
Correct Answer
Q16:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Grammar
Easy
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the most appropriate option: Either Gopal or Amit ____ the membership of the Routledge journal.
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q17:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Grammar
Easy
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the most appropriate option: Do you know any man who doesn't ______ to own a Château?
Correct Answer
Option 1
Correct Answer
Q18:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Grammar
Easy
Fill in the blanks in the following sentence with the most appropriate combination arranged sequentially: As soon as they saw a policeman _____ some distance, they rushed _________ the trees and hid _________ them.
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q19:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Grammar
Easy
Choose the most appropriate **active construction** of the given sentence: His son was cast in the leading role by the director in his upcoming film.
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q20:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Phrasal Verbs
Easy
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the most appropriate option: I was so reluctant, but now I am __________ the responsibility to maintain an amicable relationship between the opposing parties.
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q21:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Phrasal Verbs
Medium
Fill in the blanks given in List-I with the correct expressions given in List-II | LIST-I (Sentence) | LIST-II (Phrasal verb) | |---|---| | A. The thought of betrayal __________ him ________. | I. break through | | B. There was nobody to _________ his claim that the robbery was staged. | II. boils down | | C. It was difficult to _________ the layers surrounding the heir's mysterious death. | III. back up | | D. There was a complete _________ after the grid station collapsed. | IV. black out | Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q22:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Grammar
Easy
Fill in the blanks given in List-I with the appropriate words given in List-II | LIST-I (Sentences) | LIST-II (words) | |---|---| | A. Ankita has been hired as a senior consultant ___ a software firm. | I. of | | B. Mr. Gera gets fits ____ anger. | II. into | | C. They have put an embargo ____ the supply of oil to India. | III. on | | D. My algorithm has hoodwinked me ______ believing that the secret to success is manifestation. | IV. by | Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 4
Correct Answer
Q23:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Synonyms
Easy
Choose the correct word that is a synonym of the word- **Arraign** from the given options:
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q24:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Literary Devices
Easy
Identify the figure of speech in the following statement from the options given below: As the waiter brought over our dish, everyone looked at it with curiosity, as it was sizzling loudly.
Correct Answer
Option 4
Correct Answer
Q25:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Spelling
Easy
From the following options, choose the incorrectly spelled words: A. Inflammable B. Quadrelateral C. Retribution D. Testemony Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 1
Correct Answer
Q26:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Rearrangement
Medium
Rearrange the following parts to make a meaningful sentence: A. now this side now that, and when the uneasy calm followed the storm, B. the Partition came like an unexpected virulent storm, C. the prospect of things going back to normal was changed out of recognition D. and individuals were like leaves blown away, Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 3
Correct Answer
Q27:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Grammar
Medium
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the most appropriate option: _________ money that you have saved should not be spent on a grand wedding.
Correct Answer
Option 1
Correct Answer
Q28:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Literary Devices
Easy
Choose the sentences that are correct examples of **Hyperbole** and **Oxymoron**: A. The smell of burnt food will not clear out even if we spray all the perfumes from Arabia. B. There was a defeaning silence in the auditorium. C. The stage was filled with talented faces. D. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 1
Correct Answer
Q29:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Idioms
Easy
Match the idioms /proverbs given in LIST-I with their meanings given in LIST-II | LIST-I (Idiom/Proverb) | LIST-II (Meaning) | |---|---| | A. As clear as mud | I. Cease activity for the rest of the day | | B. Wet behind the ears | II. Make wrong assumptions about something | | C. Call it a day | III. To be very young and inexperienced | | D. Bark up the wrong tree | IV. Impossible to understand | Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 3
Correct Answer
Q30:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Idioms
Easy
Choose the option which best describes the expression: **Banana Republic**.
Correct Answer
Option 3
Correct Answer
Q31:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Phrasal Verbs
Easy
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the most appropriate option: The deal struck between the two parties was __________ after the death of the cartel head.
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q32:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Word Usage
Easy
Match the words given in List-I with their expanded forms given in List-II. | LIST-I (Word) | LIST-II (Expanded form) | |---|---| | A. Iconoclast | I. One who criticises popular beliefs. | | B. Conscription | II. One who is a brilliant performer on stage. | | C. Mogul | III. A person of very great power, wealth or importance. | | D. Virtuoso | IV. Compulsory enlistment for military service. | Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 1
Correct Answer
Q33:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Antonyms
Easy
Choose the antonym of the underlined word in the following sentence from the given options: Given the global scenario is it a **propitious** time to start a new venture?
Correct Answer
Option 4
Correct Answer
Q34:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Grammar
Easy
Choose the most appropriate **reported speech** construction of the given sentence: Sanika asked, "Are you coming to the Tech fest tomorrow?"
Correct Answer
Option 3
Correct Answer
Q35:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Word Usage
Easy
Choose the options which demonstrate the appropriate use of underlined words in the given sentences: A. You need to write down the essential topics so that you can look at them later. B. On his way to Goa, he took a rite turn and lost his way. C. You need to wright the clothes before hanging them. D. It is my birth right and whatever you say will not change that fact. Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 1
Correct Answer
Q36:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Word Usage
Medium
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the most appropriate option: The old building had an _____ air of sadness about it.
Correct Answer
Option 4
Correct Answer
Q37:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Word Usage
Easy
Match the words given in List-I with their expanded forms given in List-II | LIST-I (Word) | LIST-II (Expanded form) | |---|---| | A. Truant | I. A seat for a second person on a motorcycle. | | B. Pillion | II. Something used as a test or a standard for comparison. | | C. Dilettante | III. A person who remains absent from duty without permission. | | D. Touchstone | IV. A dabbler in art, science and literature. | Choose the **correct** answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer
Option 4
Correct Answer
Q38:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Spelling
Easy
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the correctly spelled word: The _________ of the abandoned child was perceptible in her eyes.
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q39:
31st May Shift 1
Vocabulary > Synonyms
Easy
Choose the correct option which is closest in meaning to the word 'Sporadic':
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q40:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Grammar
Medium
Fill in the blank in the following sentence with the most appropriate option: The woodcutter _________ the log when it started to rain.
Correct Answer
Option 4
Correct Answer
Q41:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Passage
Easy
During Reva's first year working with the romance tours in Ukraine, when bachelors asked her about her day job and she was in a rare mood to divulge, she'd frame what she did as a rescue mission. She was plucking endangered snails from their shrinking habitats and reviving their populations in captivity. One day, she'd reintroduced them into ecologically protected zones of which there were few, but Rome wasn't built in a day. She toured all around the country, including the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, where the war puttered on.
She evacuated survivors even if she didn't have room for them. She had vowed never to repeat one of her early mistakes: once, she'd chosen not to rescue the dozen Annilika severus from their ravine at the base of the Carpathians, but by the time she came back for them, new terrarium at the ready, the ravine had been filled by a mudslide. She never saw another Annilika severus snail again. And she witnessed just enough miracles to blind her with hope: two rare Tordionus bazilikae on an onion stalk sticking out of a dumpster, when she wasn't looking for them. Another time, a cluster of newborns at the edge of a military range. These early successes had to be signs- she was destined for this rescue mission.
She and her charges would outpace environmental destruction. It wasn't impossible, after all. She'd steer her Noah's Ark to every nook and cranny of the country, no leaf unturned. "A dangerous thing, early success," a bachelor told her during one date, describing his own investment ventures. A jackpot in his early 20s had led him to believe in his own so-called instincts until he hit financial ruin. But Reva was hardly listening. Her interpreter had long ago wilted into her martini, and Reva's eyes were glued to the terrarium cam on her phone looking at her snails. These dates were but a sham to get the financially well-off bachelors to invest in her lab.
What miracle did the protagonist witness in the given passage?
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q42:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Passage
Easy
During Reva's first year working with the romance tours in Ukraine, when bachelors asked her about her day job and she was in a rare mood to divulge, she'd frame what she did as a rescue mission. She was plucking endangered snails from their shrinking habitats and reviving their populations in captivity. One day, she'd reintroduced them into ecologically protected zones of which there were few, but Rome wasn't built in a day. She toured all around the country, including the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, where the war puttered on.
She evacuated survivors even if she didn't have room for them. She had vowed never to repeat one of her early mistakes: once, she'd chosen not to rescue the dozen Annilika severus from their ravine at the base of the Carpathians, but by the time she came back for them, new terrarium at the ready, the ravine had been filled by a mudslide. She never saw another Annilika severus snail again. And she witnessed just enough miracles to blind her with hope: two rare Tordionus bazilikae on an onion stalk sticking out of a dumpster, when she wasn't looking for them. Another time, a cluster of newborns at the edge of a military range. These early successes had to be signs- she was destined for this rescue mission.
She and her charges would outpace environmental destruction. It wasn't impossible, after all. She'd steer her Noah's Ark to every nook and cranny of the country, no leaf unturned. "A dangerous thing, early success," a bachelor told her during one date, describing his own investment ventures. A jackpot in his early 20s had led him to believe in his own so-called instincts until he hit financial ruin. But Reva was hardly listening. Her interpreter had long ago wilted into her martini, and Reva's eyes were glued to the terrarium cam on her phone looking at her snails. These dates were but a sham to get the financially well-off bachelors to invest in her lab.
According to the passage, why did Reva gather endangered snails?
Correct Answer
Option 4
Correct Answer
Q43:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Passage
Easy
During Reva's first year working with the romance tours in Ukraine, when bachelors asked her about her day job and she was in a rare mood to divulge, she'd frame what she did as a rescue mission. She was plucking endangered snails from their shrinking habitats and reviving their populations in captivity. One day, she'd reintroduced them into ecologically protected zones of which there were few, but Rome wasn't built in a day. She toured all around the country, including the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, where the war puttered on.
She evacuated survivors even if she didn't have room for them. She had vowed never to repeat one of her early mistakes: once, she'd chosen not to rescue the dozen Annilika severus from their ravine at the base of the Carpathians, but by the time she came back for them, new terrarium at the ready, the ravine had been filled by a mudslide. She never saw another Annilika severus snail again. And she witnessed just enough miracles to blind her with hope: two rare Tordionus bazilikae on an onion stalk sticking out of a dumpster, when she wasn't looking for them. Another time, a cluster of newborns at the edge of a military range. These early successes had to be signs- she was destined for this rescue mission.
She and her charges would outpace environmental destruction. It wasn't impossible, after all. She'd steer her Noah's Ark to every nook and cranny of the country, no leaf unturned. "A dangerous thing, early success," a bachelor told her during one date, describing his own investment ventures. A jackpot in his early 20s had led him to believe in his own so-called instincts until he hit financial ruin. But Reva was hardly listening. Her interpreter had long ago wilted into her martini, and Reva's eyes were glued to the terrarium cam on her phone looking at her snails. These dates were but a sham to get the financially well-off bachelors to invest in her lab.
Why did the protagonist evacuate survivors even though she was short on room?
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q44:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Passage
Medium
During Reva's first year working with the romance tours in Ukraine, when bachelors asked her about her day job and she was in a rare mood to divulge, she'd frame what she did as a rescue mission. She was plucking endangered snails from their shrinking habitats and reviving their populations in captivity. One day, she'd reintroduced them into ecologically protected zones of which there were few, but Rome wasn't built in a day. She toured all around the country, including the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, where the war puttered on.
She evacuated survivors even if she didn't have room for them. She had vowed never to repeat one of her early mistakes: once, she'd chosen not to rescue the dozen Annilika severus from their ravine at the base of the Carpathians, but by the time she came back for them, new terrarium at the ready, the ravine had been filled by a mudslide. She never saw another Annilika severus snail again. And she witnessed just enough miracles to blind her with hope: two rare Tordionus bazilikae on an onion stalk sticking out of a dumpster, when she wasn't looking for them. Another time, a cluster of newborns at the edge of a military range. These early successes had to be signs- she was destined for this rescue mission.
She and her charges would outpace environmental destruction. It wasn't impossible, after all. She'd steer her Noah's Ark to every nook and cranny of the country, no leaf unturned. "A dangerous thing, early success," a bachelor told her during one date, describing his own investment ventures. A jackpot in his early 20s had led him to believe in his own so-called instincts until he hit financial ruin. But Reva was hardly listening. Her interpreter had long ago wilted into her martini, and Reva's eyes were glued to the terrarium cam on her phone looking at her snails. These dates were but a sham to get the financially well-off bachelors to invest in her lab.
'Her interpreter had long ago wilted into her martini..' Choose the meaning of the given line from the passage:
Correct Answer
Option 1
Correct Answer
Q45:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Passage
Easy
During Reva's first year working with the romance tours in Ukraine, when bachelors asked her about her day job and she was in a rare mood to divulge, she'd frame what she did as a rescue mission. She was plucking endangered snails from their shrinking habitats and reviving their populations in captivity. One day, she'd reintroduced them into ecologically protected zones of which there were few, but Rome wasn't built in a day. She toured all around the country, including the self-proclaimed People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, where the war puttered on.
She evacuated survivors even if she didn't have room for them. She had vowed never to repeat one of her early mistakes: once, she'd chosen not to rescue the dozen Annilika severus from their ravine at the base of the Carpathians, but by the time she came back for them, new terrarium at the ready, the ravine had been filled by a mudslide. She never saw another Annilika severus snail again. And she witnessed just enough miracles to blind her with hope: two rare Tordionus bazilikae on an onion stalk sticking out of a dumpster, when she wasn't looking for them. Another time, a cluster of newborns at the edge of a military range. These early successes had to be signs- she was destined for this rescue mission.
She and her charges would outpace environmental destruction. It wasn't impossible, after all. She'd steer her Noah's Ark to every nook and cranny of the country, no leaf unturned. "A dangerous thing, early success," a bachelor told her during one date, describing his own investment ventures. A jackpot in his early 20s had led him to believe in his own so-called instincts until he hit financial ruin. But Reva was hardly listening. Her interpreter had long ago wilted into her martini, and Reva's eyes were glued to the terrarium cam on her phone looking at her snails. These dates were but a sham to get the financially well-off bachelors to invest in her lab.
Find a word from the passage which is similar in meaning to 'false'
Correct Answer
Option 3
Correct Answer
Q46:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Passage
Easy
New York City's Central Park can feel like an untouched slice of nature in the heart of Manhattan, but every square foot of the 843-acre park was carefully planned and constructed. When New York legislators approved construction of a massive urban park in 1853—the first of its kind in the United States—they chose some of the least attractive land in the city. "It was junk land," says Cynthia Brenwall, a conservator at the New York Municipal Archives. "It was not nice, beautiful and hilly like it is now. It was rocky and full of bogs. There were gross tanneries and bone-boiling plants. It was attractive because it was easily attainable."
The transformation of "junk land" into one of the most-visited and beloved parks in the world required one of the largest public works projects in 19th-century America. From 1857 to 1866, more than 20,000 labourers armed with pickaxes, carts and gunpowder removed and reworked nearly 7 million cubic feet of rock and soil to shape Central Park into the verdant work of public art it is today.
From 1840 to 1850, the population of New York City grew from 327,000 to almost 600,000. The vast majority of New Yorkers still lived in the southern tip of Manhattan, but city planners predicted the growing metropolis would soon cover the whole island. If New York was going to be a world-class city at par with Paris and London, it needed an open green space like the Tuileries Garden or Hyde Park where residents could escape the noise and pollution of city life. "Poor New Yorkers who lived in tenements weren't going out into the country on the weekends," says Brenwall, author of The Central Park: Original Designs for New York's Greatest Treasure. "They didn't summer in the Hamptons. They worked six days a week and had one day to recuperate. Central Park was supposed to be a way to be out in the 'country' without leaving the city."
Which of the following statements is false according to the given passage?
Correct Answer
Option 3
Correct Answer
Q47:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Passage
Easy
New York City's Central Park can feel like an untouched slice of nature in the heart of Manhattan, but every square foot of the 843-acre park was carefully planned and constructed. When New York legislators approved construction of a massive urban park in 1853—the first of its kind in the United States—they chose some of the least attractive land in the city. "It was junk land," says Cynthia Brenwall, a conservator at the New York Municipal Archives. "It was not nice, beautiful and hilly like it is now. It was rocky and full of bogs. There were gross tanneries and bone-boiling plants. It was attractive because it was easily attainable."
The transformation of "junk land" into one of the most-visited and beloved parks in the world required one of the largest public works projects in 19th-century America. From 1857 to 1866, more than 20,000 labourers armed with pickaxes, carts and gunpowder removed and reworked nearly 7 million cubic feet of rock and soil to shape Central Park into the verdant work of public art it is today.
From 1840 to 1850, the population of New York City grew from 327,000 to almost 600,000. The vast majority of New Yorkers still lived in the southern tip of Manhattan, but city planners predicted the growing metropolis would soon cover the whole island. If New York was going to be a world-class city at par with Paris and London, it needed an open green space like the Tuileries Garden or Hyde Park where residents could escape the noise and pollution of city life. "Poor New Yorkers who lived in tenements weren't going out into the country on the weekends," says Brenwall, author of The Central Park: Original Designs for New York's Greatest Treasure. "They didn't summer in the Hamptons. They worked six days a week and had one day to recuperate. Central Park was supposed to be a way to be out in the 'country' without leaving the city."
Which of the following is not implied by the statement "Central Park was supposed to be a way to be out in the 'country' without leaving the city."?
Correct Answer
Option 4
Correct Answer
Q48:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Passage
Easy
New York City's Central Park can feel like an untouched slice of nature in the heart of Manhattan, but every square foot of the 843-acre park was carefully planned and constructed. When New York legislators approved construction of a massive urban park in 1853—the first of its kind in the United States—they chose some of the least attractive land in the city. "It was junk land," says Cynthia Brenwall, a conservator at the New York Municipal Archives. "It was not nice, beautiful and hilly like it is now. It was rocky and full of bogs. There were gross tanneries and bone-boiling plants. It was attractive because it was easily attainable."
The transformation of "junk land" into one of the most-visited and beloved parks in the world required one of the largest public works projects in 19th-century America. From 1857 to 1866, more than 20,000 labourers armed with pickaxes, carts and gunpowder removed and reworked nearly 7 million cubic feet of rock and soil to shape Central Park into the verdant work of public art it is today.
From 1840 to 1850, the population of New York City grew from 327,000 to almost 600,000. The vast majority of New Yorkers still lived in the southern tip of Manhattan, but city planners predicted the growing metropolis would soon cover the whole island. If New York was going to be a world-class city at par with Paris and London, it needed an open green space like the Tuileries Garden or Hyde Park where residents could escape the noise and pollution of city life. "Poor New Yorkers who lived in tenements weren't going out into the country on the weekends," says Brenwall, author of The Central Park: Original Designs for New York's Greatest Treasure. "They didn't summer in the Hamptons. They worked six days a week and had one day to recuperate. Central Park was supposed to be a way to be out in the 'country' without leaving the city."
Why was the land reserved for the Central Park in New York attractive to the legislators?
Correct Answer
Option 2
Correct Answer
Q49:
31st May Shift 1
VA > Passage
Easy
New York City's Central Park can feel like an untouched slice of nature in the heart of Manhattan, but every square foot of the 843-acre park was carefully planned and constructed. When New York legislators approved construction of a massive urban park in 1853—the first of its kind in the United States—they chose some of the least attractive land in the city. "It was junk land," says Cynthia Brenwall, a conservator at the New York Municipal Archives. "It was not nice, beautiful and hilly like it is now. It was rocky and full of bogs. There were gross tanneries and bone-boiling plants. It was attractive because it was easily attainable."
The transformation of "junk land" into one of the most-visited and beloved parks in the world required one of the largest public works projects in 19th-century America. From 1857 to 1866, more than 20,000 labourers armed with pickaxes, carts and gunpowder removed and reworked nearly 7 million cubic feet of rock and soil to shape Central Park into the verdant work of public art it is today.
From 1840 to 1850, the population of New York City grew from 327,000 to almost 600,000. The vast majority of New Yorkers still lived in the southern tip of Manhattan, but city planners predicted the growing metropolis would soon cover the whole island. If New York was going to be a world-class city at par with Paris and London, it needed an open green space like the Tuileries Garden or Hyde Park where residents could escape the noise and pollution of city life. "Poor New Yorkers who lived in tenements weren't going out into the country on the weekends," says Brenwall, author of The Central Park: Original Designs for New York's Greatest Treasure. "They didn't summer in the Hamptons. They worked six days a week and had one day to recuperate. Central Park was supposed to be a way to be out in the 'country' without leaving the city."
What is the meaning of the word "verdant" as used in the passage?
Correct Answer
Option 1
Correct Answer
Q50:
31st May Shift 1
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New York City's Central Park can feel like an untouched slice of nature in the heart of Manhattan, but every square foot of the 843-acre park was carefully planned and constructed. When New York legislators approved construction of a massive urban park in 1853—the first of its kind in the United States—they chose some of the least attractive land in the city. "It was junk land," says Cynthia Brenwall, a conservator at the New York Municipal Archives. "It was not nice, beautiful and hilly like it is now. It was rocky and full of bogs. There were gross tanneries and bone-boiling plants. It was attractive because it was easily attainable."
The transformation of "junk land" into one of the most-visited and beloved parks in the world required one of the largest public works projects in 19th-century America. From 1857 to 1866, more than 20,000 labourers armed with pickaxes, carts and gunpowder removed and reworked nearly 7 million cubic feet of rock and soil to shape Central Park into the verdant work of public art it is today.
From 1840 to 1850, the population of New York City grew from 327,000 to almost 600,000. The vast majority of New Yorkers still lived in the southern tip of Manhattan, but city planners predicted the growing metropolis would soon cover the whole island. If New York was going to be a world-class city at par with Paris and London, it needed an open green space like the Tuileries Garden or Hyde Park where residents could escape the noise and pollution of city life. "Poor New Yorkers who lived in tenements weren't going out into the country on the weekends," says Brenwall, author of The Central Park: Original Designs for New York's Greatest Treasure. "They didn't summer in the Hamptons. They worked six days a week and had one day to recuperate. Central Park was supposed to be a way to be out in the 'country' without leaving the city."
Which of the following apparatuses and equipment was not used to clear the Central Park?
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