List of top Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension (VARC) Questions

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As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings. Word had gone round during the day that old Major, the prize Middle White boar, had had a strange dream on the previous night and wished to communicate it to the other animals. It had been agreed that they should all meet in the big barn as soon as Mr. Jones was safely out of the way. Old Major (so he was always called, though the name under which he had been exhibited was Willingdon Beauty) was so highly regarded on the farm that everyone was quite ready to lose an hour's sleep in order to hear what he had to say. At one end of the big barn, on a sort of raised platform, Major was already ensconced on his bed of straw, under a lantern which hung from a beam. He was twelve years old and had lately grown rather stout, but he was still a majestic-looking pig, with a wise and benevolent appearance in spite of the fact that his tushes had never been cut. Before long the other animals began to arrive and make themselves comfortable after their different fashions. First came the three dogs, Bluebell, Jessie, and Pincher, and then the pigs, who settled down in the straw immediately in front of the platform. The hens perched themselves on the window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up to the rafters, the sheep and cows lay down behind the pigs and began to chew the cud. The two cart-horses, Boxer and Clover, came in together, walking very slowly and setting down their vast hairy hoofs with great care lest there should be some small animal concealed in the straw. Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together. A white stripe down his nose gave him a somewhat stupid appearance, and in fact he was not of first-rate intelligence, but he was universally respected for his steadiness of character and tremendous powers of work. After the horses came Muriel, the white goat, and Benjamin, the donkey. Benjamin was the oldest animal on the farm, and the worst tempered. He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark—for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies. Alone among the animals on the farm he never laughed. If asked why, he would say that he saw nothing to laugh at. Nevertheless, without openly admitting it, he was devoted to Boxer; the two of them usually spent their Sundays together in the small paddock beyond the orchard, grazing side by side and never speaking.
Identify the odd man out.
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All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call IMPRESSIONS and IDEAS. The difference betwixt these consists in the degrees of force and liveliness, with which they strike upon the mind, and make their way into our thought or consciousness. Those perceptions, which enter with most force and violence, we may name impressions: and under this name I comprehend all our sensations, passions and emotions, as they make their first appearance in the soul. By ideas I mean the faint images of these in thinking and reasoning; such as, for instance, are all the perceptions excited by the present discourse, excepting only those which arise from the sight and touch, and excepting the immediate pleasure or uneasiness it may occasion. I believe it will not be very necessary to employ many words in explaining this distinction. Every one of himself will readily perceive the difference betwixt feeling and thinking. The common degrees of these are easily distinguished; though it is not impossible but in particular instances they may very nearly approach to each other. Thus in sleep, in a fever, in madness, or in any very violent emotions of soul, our ideas may approach to our impressions. As on the other hand it sometimes happens, that our impressions are so faint and low, that we cannot distinguish them from our ideas. But notwithstanding this near resemblance in a few instances, they are in general so very different, that no-one can make a scruple to rank them under distinct heads, and assign to each a peculiar name to mark the difference.
Which one of the following statements is true?
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Independence by Chitra Banerjee Diwakaruni binds the reader in a spell. The narration is beguilingly informal and taut, while the story line is immense yet immediate. It is extremely rate that an author is established such a spontaneous rapport with an unknown reader. With this novel, Divakaruni family marks her territory among the foremost storytellers of this nation and of her destiny.
Independent tells the story of the birth of modern India. The demand for separate Islamic nation by Mohammad Ali jinnah-led Muslim League led to the Direct Action Day in August 1946. Shows of force by 2 communal groups escalated into a bloodbath in Kolkata, the fires of which rapidly spread to other places. Today this is India's one enduring political legacy and the horrors of partition are so profound that no survivor uttersits full description.
Diwakaruni's work of fiction is set in these uneasy times. Ranipur a small nondiscript village tucked away on the banks of River Sarasi, forms the backdrop to the deep friendship between the wealthy landlord Somnath Babu and Dr Nabakumar Ganguly, whose families are forever entwind by tragedy and the pain of loss. The cost of character is sparse yet weaves a heartbreaking tale of an entire region's history. What makes the narrative seep under the skin of the reader is that it is fundamentally a paean to love in the wake of which comes a churn human emotions-anger, rejection, jealousy-boundaries that may be broken or defeated by elation strength, responsibility, devastation and a reason to live despite it all. It is what binds this cast of characters and what wrecks their lives. So many tragedies could have been averted but the human heart longs for what it longs for and nothing may change that each character, spare and yet rendered almost in flesh, is luminous. Even the villains reach out the menace pages with the deaths and their are for too many of them are brutal. Each underlines the devastation of that moment in time and also the devastation being committed to an idea or cause may bring. The inferno of partition is not shied away from and it is extraordinary how the engaging style of writing sustains both the historic and the domestic, the catastrophic and the intimate.
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Good med Abroad Is Good Med fir Home
The directorate general of foreign Trade (DGFT) has made it mandatory for all cough syrup exporters to have their products tested and certified for quality at specified government elaborates before shipping out export orders. This is welcome. It will begin the reputation damage over alleged indian cough syrup-related deaths in some countries last year. safeguarding quality cannot be limited to some products or to exports.
Ensuring Quality is the central Drugs Standard control organization's (CDSCO) Responsibility, not DGFT's setting norms for exports is like applying a band-aid to a wound that requires stiches. CDSCO needs an overhaul. In the current fragmented system. Quality and standardization are causalities. A modern ,Independent, statutory regulatory system that has the capacity to provide oversight complex pharmaceutical industry while protecting public health and patient right s required. CDSCO is the non-statutory regulator under the health ministry It has no jurisdiction over state Drug Regulatory Authorities (SDRA's) that are part of state health departments. Each regulators body acts independent of the other. this must change. the regulatory approach, too, needs to change shifting from an overwhelming focus on manufacturing to public health requires putting a doctor in change, and shifting the regulators with multidisciplinary teams.
India is the third-largest pharma manufacturing meeting 20% of global generic demand. The $41 billion industry is estimated to grow further -$50-65 billion by 2025, and $120-130 billion by 20230. Ensuring all indian pharma products meets Quality standards will help both at home and abroad, while growing India's pharma footprint