1. Cyclonic storms on Tamil Nadu’s 1,076-km coastline are not __________________, and at least once in two years there is some disaster or the other.
a) Unusual
b) Usual
c) Regular
d) Common
2. A big factor behind the flooding is the ____________________ construction of buildings on water bodies, wetlands and areas that were originally floodplains.
a) Controlled
b) Rampant
c) Pervasive
d) Uncontrolled
3) A key factor that ought to be taken into account is that the city needs an intricate drainage system to match its ___________ development.
a) Booming
b) Depriving
c) Reducing
d) Burgeoning
4. ______________ is there a reconsideration of the policy of civic planning, especially the tendency to place real estate and commercial interests above those of nature and ecology.
a) Hardly
b) Frequently
c) Rarely
d) Every time
5. Compounding the problem of urban waste clogging drains was widespread encroachments that have _______________ down the carrying capacity of many water channels.
a) Untrimmed
b) Whittled
c) Ruined
d) Cut
6. Find the error in the following sentence.
a) Farmers bear three-fourth of
b) the production cost while the balance one-fourth
c) is paid by the government as subsidy
d) directly to the fertilizer makers
e) No error
7. Find the error in the following sentence.
a) The implementation of the sixth pay commission
b) in 2008-09 and resultant wage increase
c) have had a positive rub-off
d) on sales in urban markets
e) No error
8. Find the error in the following sentence.
a) The governments keenness to keep inflation beyond check
b) to provide room for the RBI to cut interest rates further
c) may restrain it from providing any big relief
d) to farmers by way of higher MSPs
e) No error
9. Find the error in the following sentence.
a) The share of revenue’s
b) from the rural market
c) gone up steady over
d) the last few years
e) No error
10. Find the error in the following sentence.
a) Madan hesitated in accepting the post as he
b) did not thought that the salary
c) was enough for a man
d) with a family of eight
e) No error
