Between the year 1946 and the year 1955, I
did not file any income tax returns." With that [5] statement, Ramesh embarked on an account
of his encounter with the Income Tax Department. "I originally owed Rs
20,000 in unpaid taxes. With [6]
and [7], the 20,000 became
60,000. The Income Tax Department then went into action, and I learned
firsthand just how much power the Tax Department wields. Royalties and trust
funds can be [8]; automobiles
may be [9], and auctioned off.
Nothing belongs to the [10]
until the case is settled."

Between the year 1946 and the year 1955, I
did not file any income tax returns." With that [5] statement, Ramesh embarked on an account
of his encounter with the Income Tax Department. "I originally owed Rs
20,000 in unpaid taxes. With [6]
and [7], the 20,000 became
60,000. The Income Tax Department then went into action, and I learned
firsthand just how much power the Tax Department wields. Royalties and trust
funds can be [8]; automobiles
may be [9], and auctioned off.
Nothing belongs to the [10]
until the case is settled."

(A)
The balance of power will shift to the East as China and India evolve.
(B) Rarely the economic ascent of two still relatively poor nations
has been watched with such a mixture of awe, opportunism, and trepidation.
(C) Postwar era witnessed economic miracles in Japan and South
Korea, but neither was populous enough to power worldwide growth or change
the game in a complete spectrum of industries.
(D) China and India, by contrast, possess the weight and dynamism to
transform the 21st-century global economy

Between the year 1946 and the year 1955, I
did not file any income tax returns." With that [5] statement, Ramesh embarked on an account
of his encounter with the Income Tax Department. "I originally owed Rs
20,000 in unpaid taxes. With [6]
and [7], the 20,000 became
60,000. The Income Tax Department then went into action, and I learned
firsthand just how much power the Tax Department wields. Royalties and trust
funds can be [8]; automobiles
may be [9], and auctioned off.
Nothing belongs to the [10]
until the case is settled."

(A)
People have good reason to care about the welfare of animals.
(B) Ever since Enlightenment, their treatment has been seen as a
measure of mankind's humanity.
(C) It is no coincidence that William Wilberforce and Sir Thomas Fox
well Buxton, two leaders of the movement to abolish the slave trade, helped
found the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in 1820s.
(D) An increasing number of people go further: mankind has a duty
not to cause pain to animals that have the capacity to
suffer

Archaeologists
believe that the pieces of red-ware pottery excavated recently near Bhavnagar
and ___________ shed light on a hitherto dark 600-year period in the Harappan history of Gujarat

(A)
When virtuoso teams begin their work, individuals are in and group consensus
is       out.
(B) As project progresses, however, the individual starts harness
themselves to the product of the group.
(C) Sooner or later, the members break through their own egocentrism
and become a plurality with single-minded focus on the goal.
(D) In short, they morph into a powerful team with a shared
identity

(A) Large reductions
in the ozone layer, which sits about 15-30 km above the Earth, take place
each winter over the polar regions, especially the Antarctic, as low
temperatures allow the formation of stratospheric clouds that assist chemical
reactions breaking down ozone.
(B) Industrial chemicals containing chlorine and bromine have been
blamed for thinning the layer because they attack the ozone molecules, making
them to break apart.
(C) Many an offending chemicals have now been banned.
(D) It will still take several decades before these substances have disappeared
from the atmosphere

In the following question, there are sentences or parts of sentences labeled A, B, C, D and E. Choose for your answer the fragment that carries an error. Ignore punctuation errors if any.
A. In these blogs, I’ve laughed, spit out my coffee,
B. cursed, cried, learned invaluable lessons
C. about work and motherhood, and fell in love
D. with hundreds of people I’ve never met.
E. No error

In the following question, there are sentences or parts of sentences labeled A, B, C, D and E. Choose for your answer the fragment that carries an error. Ignore punctuation errors if any.
A. Over the course of more than 500 columns and 100,000 comments,
B. I’ve learned a lot about how deeply we all care
C. about juggling work and family,
D. but I’ve never learned what
E. any of you looks like.