Please answer :
What is the remainder when 37 to the power 1006 is divided by 25
a-4
b-9
c-24
d-19
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(14 Mar) ONE RC A DAY
Passage
All finance begins with saving, that is, somebody’s decision to consume less now in order to be able to consume more later. Financial institutions bridge the gap between the time people decide to save and the time when they decide to consume.
Anything that is not consumed is, by definition, saved; and the decision whether to consume or to save is based largely on price. The price of savings in this case is the general level of real interest rates, that is, nominal rates less inflation. A market with persistently negative real rates is soon going to run out of savers; and one with real rates in double figures is going to be hard-pressed to find profitable homes for the high level of savings that would be attracted to such rates.
Savings come essentially from individuals and companies. They can, in theory, also come from governments, but it is a rare government that is not borrowing from others in order to pay its bills. Although governments and government institutions are not themselves great savers, they do have great influence on the direction in which savings flow. Governments’ budget deficits make them large consumers of others’ savings. National savings schemes’ interest rates can be insensitive to market forces. They can thus shift the competitive position of different private-sector financial institutions. Furthermore, by the structure of their tax systems, governments almost invariably encourage borrowing at the expense of savings.
In a world of nation states, each state can also attract savings from foreigners. If governments permit (that is, if they remove exchange controls), nations can export or import savings just as easily as they can export or import consumer goods. If left alone, savings will flow across the exchanges from one nation to another in search of the highest rate of return.
There is a host of institutions keen to be the bearer of these savings to those borrowers judged capable of using them productively. These institutions compete with each other, and dangle a different balance of risk and reward with which to entice savings their way.
Short-term financial markets provide the savers and users of funds with a direct interface. These include markets as short-term as the overnight interbank market, in which banks place their surplus funds for the overnight use of other banks with a shortage. They also include markets for instruments like commercial paper (a means for companies to place their surpluses with other companies) and treasury bills (which enable governments to raise funds from individuals and financial institutions). Commercial paper and treasury bills can have a maturity of three months or more.
Bond markets and stock markets are long-term financial markets. Bonds can be issued with a maturity of anything up to 15 years, and shares are issued for eternity. Investors deterred by the thought of being locked into financial assets for so long can trade their long-term assets at short-term notice whenever they wish in secondary markets to ensure liquidity at all times.
Basic commercial banks provide savers with a number of different services, from very short-term current accounts to long-term time deposits. They also provide the core service of money transmission. This enables savers to move money from one institution to another without having to carry bundles of notes from door to door.
Insurance companies and pension funds are long-term financial institutions. They collect huge sums which they invest mostly in stock and bond markets. In many countries tax advantages have greatly enhanced the attractiveness of these institutions as conduits for savings.
Money, of course, makes the world go round. Nevertheless, it is surprising that so many waking hours of some of the great minds on the planet are spent in the allocation of money to different competing demands. The field of Finance, indeed, attracts the brightest young MBAs all over the world.
[The Economist Books: Pocket Finance by Tim Hindle]
1. The primary purpose of the passage is:
1. to discuss the difference between saving and investing.
2. to introduce the field of Finance to the layman.
3. to highlight how different financial institutions balance risk and reward.
4. to emphasize the importance of the field of Finance.
2. Which of the following attract long-term savings, EXCEPT?
1. stock markets.
2. inter-bank markets.
3. bond markets.
4. insurance companies.
3. What purpose do secondary financial markets serve?
1. to provide the core service of money transmission.
2. to enable investors to invest in long-term assets.
3. to facilitate liquidity and marketability of long term instruments, such as stocks and bonds.
4. to enable governments to raise funds.
4. Which of the following can be inferred from the second paragraph of the passage, EXCEPT?
1. If the rate of inflation exceeds the nominal interest rate, savers will be disincentivized to save.
2. Central banks curtail off-take of credit by keeping benchmark interest rates low as part of their credit and monetary policies.
3. There is a limit to the cost of capital beyond which it would be untenable for a borrower to borrow.
4. Inflation has a tendency to eat into your savings.
5. Which of the following are possible ways that governments and government institutions can influence the direction in which savings flow in the context of the passage, EXCEPT?
1. Higher interest rates for government national savings schemes can direct savings into them.
2. Government policies encourage profligacy by the government and fritter away savings.
3. Tax incentives for home-buyers and small businessman can direct savings into the realty and MSME sector.
4. Deficit financing by governments can channel savings into government projects of vital importance to society at large.
6. Which of the following are some of the possible ways a state can control flow of foreign savings into the country, EXCEPT?
1. By limiting the convertibility of its currency on the capital account.
2. By placing caps on foreign direct investment.
3. By enticing its diaspora with special schemes to invest in the country’s banks and financial institutions.
4. By permitting its corporates to invest overseas and become MNCs themselves.
(15 Mar) ONE RC A DAY
Passage
The ability of falling cats to right themselves in midair and land on their feet has been a source of wonder for ages. Biologists long regarded it as an example of adaptation by natural selection, but for physicists it bordered on the miraculous. Newton’s laws of motion assume that the total amount of spin of a body cannot change unless an external torque speeds it up or slows it down. If a cat has no spin when it is released and experiences no external torque, it ought not to be able to twist around as it falls.
In the speed of its execution, the righting of a tumbling cat resembles a magician’s trick. The gyrations of the cat in midair are too fast for the human eye to follow, so the process is obscured. Either the eye must be speeded up, or the cat’s fall slowed down for the phenomenon to be observed. A century ago the former was accomplished by means of high-speed photography using equipment now available easily. But in the nineteenth century the capture on film of a falling cat constituted a scientific experiment.
The experiment was described in a paper presented to the Paris Academy in 1894. Two sequences of twenty photographs each, one from the side and one from behind, show a white cat in the act of righting itself. Grainy and quaint though they are, the photos show that the cat was dropped upside down, with no initial spin, and still landed on its feet. Careful analysis of the photos reveals the secret: As the cat rotates the front of its body clockwise, the rear and tail twist counterclockwise, so that the total spin remains zero, in perfect accord with Newton’s laws. Halfway down, the cat pulls in its legs before reversing its twist and then extends them again, with the desired end result. The explanation was that while no body can acquire spin without torque, a flexible one can readily change its orientation, or phase. Cats know this instinctively, but scientists could not be sure how it happened until they increased the speed of their perceptions a thousandfold.
1. Why has the ability of falling cats to right themselves in midair and land on their feet been a source of wonder for ages?
1. Because it violated Newton’s laws of motion.
2. Because of the speed of execution of the righting process.
3. Because biologists and physicists were at loggerheads over this issue.
4. Because the righting process could not be observed by the naked eye.
2. Which of the following would the author most agree with?
1. Righting of body in midair while falling is an adaptation by natural selection, which is unique to cats.
2. Cats can twist themselves in midair without application of an external torque in violation of Newton’s laws of motion.
3. No body can acquire spin without torque, but a flexible one can change its orientation.
4. The falling of a cat can only be observed if the fall is slowed down.
3. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
1. It is the fear of dying that is behind the desperate twists and turns of the falling cat.
2. The experiment in 1894 was inconclusive.
3. The high-speed photographic equipment used in the 1894 experiment was not of good quality.
4. During the experiment in 1894, scientists marveled at Nature’s miracle as they witnessed the sequence of movements performed by the cat in midair to right itself.
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(16 Mar) ONE RC A DAY.
Passage
Economics has come in for a lot of criticism over the years as it is little understood. The Victorian writer Thomas Carlyle christened it the “dismal science” because of its gloomy predictions. In the event, those forecasts, like much economic crystal-ball gazing since, were wrong, and economics at its most effective has changed the world for the better by raising the standard of living of millions.
After all, what is economics? It is “the study of how society uses its scarce resources” or, more snappily, “the science of choices”. Without scarcity—of land, labour, raw materials, capital, entrepreneurial spirit, time—there would be no need to make choices about how to use these resources, and thus no need for economics. At its best, economics helps people to make the right choices regarding the efficient ways to use scarce resources to meet people’s needs and desires.
What is so dismal about that? The more efficiently scarce resources are used, the less they are wasted. True, choosing to do one thing means choosing not to do another. Every opportunity has a cost and making efficient choices raises the question: “What are you giving up to do this?” When economists talk about opportunity cost, they are not accentuating the negative for its own sake. They are taking a hard look at the downside of any choice to ensure, before going ahead, that the upside really is as desirable as it seems.
Some critics say that what makes economics dismal is that it reduces the whole of life to questions about money. But economics is more about how to maximize society’s welfare, and, statistically speaking, changes in financial wealth do in fact often move in step with changes in welfare. And changes in the amount of money an individual or society has are easy to measure.
Others critics say that economic rationality assumes that people behave selfishly and in fact encourages people to do so. This cannot be further from the truth. Take, for example, services that nurses render—they are “altruistic” in nature, not selfish in a strictly moral sense. But the nurses concerned are nevertheless rendering these services for their own self-interest—to earn a livelihood. Similarly, all the goods and services produced in an economy meet some need or desire of some people or the other; in other words, economics is about getting people involved in helping one another fulfill their needs and desires. Surely, there is nothing morally wrong with that.
Moreover, when economists answer a question such as “What should be the wage of a nurse?”, they are often misunderstood. The economist will look at the demand for nurses and the supply of people willing to be nurses. The market wage produced by this analysis says little about how valuable the work of nurses is. If individuals are highly motivated by the “altruistic” work of caring for the sick, wages of nurses may be comparatively low, as more people want to work as nurses. Paradoxically, comparatively low wages of nurses might reflect a more “altruistic” society rather than a selfish one, though low wages of nurses may be the most efficient way of using relatively less scarce resources to meet people’s needs.
If the government intervenes to set high wages for nurses in recognition of the “noble” service they are rendering to society, even more people will be incentivized to take up nursing as a profession. Our hospitals will be overstaffed with nurses whiling away their time, and society will pay the cost of the opportunity lost to employ these excess people in other jobs or professions. [The Economist Books: Pocket Economist by Mathew Bishop]
1. What is the primary purpose of the author?
1. To help remove the tag “dismal” from the field of economics.
2. To help clarify some misgivings related to economics.
3. To illustrate the concept of opportunity cost.
4. To define economics and discuss basic economic concepts.
2. Which of the following is the author least likely to disagree with?
1. Being selfish is not such a bad thing, as people make it out to be.
2. People should be incentivized to take up noble professions such as, nursing.
3. Markets are efficient in the utilization of scarce resources.
4. Markets should be allowed to make choices, rather than leaving it to economists.
3. Which of the following are some of the criticisms that have been leveled against economics, EXCEPT?
1. Economics encourages people to be selfish.
2. Economics does not distinguish between what work is valuable and what is not.
3. Economics measures everything in terms of money.
4. Many gloomy economic predictions made in the past proved to be wrong.
4. Among the criticisms of economics, which one gets admitted by the author?
1. Most things can be measured in financial terms.
2. While making choices, certain opportunities are inevitably lost.
3. Selfishness is a virtue.
4. Focusing on opportunity costs is a negative approach.
(17 Mar) ONE RC A DAY
Passage
People have had some curious ideas, over the centuries, about children and how they learn language. One 12th century chronicler records, for example, how the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II ‘made linguistic experiments on the vile bodies of hapless infants, bidding foster mothers and nurses to suckle and bathe and wash the children, but in no way to prattle or speak with them.’ The Emperor wanted to learn whether the babies brought up in this way ‘would speak the Hebrew language (which had been the first), or Greek, or Latin, or Arabic, or perchance the tongue of their parents of whom they had been born. In the event, his experiments yielded no conclusive results—for, as the chronicler sadly notes, ‘the children could not live without clappings of the hands, and gestures, and gladness of countenance, and blandishments.’
The evidence bears this out: children who grow up isolated from normal human contact have no knowledge or understanding of speech. There have been several well-attested cases of children brought up by animals such as wolves, leopards, pigs, and gazelles. None, when discovered, could speak.
The truth is that speech is no sudden miracle or accident. It is a result of a fascinating process of exposure and absorption, experiment and modification. All normal babies are born with the same speech potential. They possess most of the physical mechanisms that are necessary for speech—though teeth come later—and these are versatile enough to generate the sounds of all languages equally well. From the wide repertoire of sounds at their command, however, children quite naturally begin to specialize in producing those they hear around them.
In the early months, these speech sounds represent language in a rudimentary sense. They are a means of expressing sensation of comfort, joy, or pain. But even at this stage, children begin to identify and use particular sounds. Some of these—such as /s/, /r/, and /l/—prove more difficult than others. Such sounds may be run together, left out, or transposed. Who has not heard words like spway (for spray), ‘nana (banana), and ‘mato (tomato)?
An exciting time in children’s language development begins with their apparent discovery of vocabulary, then of grammar. Gradually they sort out the specific meaning or meanings of words. A little later, they pick up, if not always perfectly, the different endings that indicate plurals, past tense, and so on. By following these newly discovered patterns too rigorously, children start using logical but incorrect forms such as goed, hitted and mouses. Eventually they learn ‘irregular’ forms, and adapt to went, hit, and mice.
The environment in which children are raised is very important, though experts differ in their interpretation of the evidence. Some, for example, believe that a child with older brothers and sisters has an advantage in learning language skills; others suggest that a first-born child has the advantage. Neither view is wholly correct. If parents accept too many errors in the speech of their first-born children, for instance, they impede their command of language, while first-born children may benefit from receiving fuller attention and help. [Reader’s Digest Book: The Truth About History]
1. In the linguistic experiment conducted by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the 12th century, how did the foster mothers and nurses communicate with the children?
A. By using facial expressions to encourage them.
B. By prattling with them and baby-talk.
C. By cajoling them through physical contact and body language.
D. By brandishing their arms and hands to subdue them into submission.
1. A, C and D
2. B and D
3. A and C
4. A, B, C and D
2. Which of the following are true as per the passage?
1. Children have the potential to learn to speak any language.
2. Children can internalize any repertoire of sounds they are exposed to.
3. Children are prone to using incorrect grammatical forms by logical extension.
4. All of the above.
3. Which of the following would the author least likely agree with?
1. Parents who correct errors in their children’s speech end up discouraging them.
2. The more children are spoken to the faster they learn language.
3. Children learn vocabulary before grammar.
4. Children learn to speak correctly through experiment and modification.
(18 Mar) ONE RC A DAY
Passage
“The history we read is strictly speaking not factual at all,” said historian Geoffrey Barraclough, “but a series of accepted judgments.”
In our age, those accepted judgments are constantly being challenged. Reams of new evidence have come to light as a result of a technological revolution in historical research. Archaeologists, the grimy-fingered workers at the coalface of history, have acquired a shiny box of tools in the past decade or two, and they are putting it to good use. Their new toys include all manner of equipment, from geo-stationary satellites carrying multispectral scanners to handheld ground-penetrating sensors. Once archaeologists worked blind. Now they have a good idea what they are going to find before they reach for their traditional spades and trowels. Sometimes they can see so clearly what is there beneath the soil that they can dispense altogether with the mucky business of digging holes.
Deskbound historians, meanwhile, have left the library and turned to the laboratory to get a clearer view of the past. Many of the most sensational new truths about history are of scientific enquiry. So for example the science of genetics, originally the exclusive sphere of medics and biotechnologists, has been enthusiastically applied to the problem of classifying ancient human remains. Historians of early people once had nothing to go on but the age and location of unearthed skulls and bones; now DNA analysis of modern populations can reveal which are our oldest genes and so trace the movements of ancient humans, adding to the understanding of how our species spread across the world.
There are other examples. Carbon-dating, an incidental offshoot of nuclear physics, has become a key weapon in the historian’s armoury. Electron microscopes can see ever further into the invisible minuteness of things, so now we can know where an artifact has been during its lifetime by the kinds of pollen that are stuck to it. This technique was used to prove that the Turin Shroud had once been present in the Holy Land. It also formed part of the investigation into the life and death of Otzi the iceman.
Some of the techniques of history have been borrowed wholesale from apparently unrelated lines of work such as police forensics. A lock of a dead emperor’s hair was once nothing more than a macabre curio; now historians look on such things with the gimlet eye of the pathologist. In so doing they have answered an old historical question and solved a crime—Emperor Napoleon died of slow arsenic poisoning at the hands of a close aide during his final days of exile on the island of St Helena.
History has become a broader subject as a result of these changes. Whole new fields of study have opened up, generating yet more evidence that affects our understanding of the past. One of these new fields is historical epidemiology: looking at how disease and mortality affected our ancestors. Then there is historical ecology—the effect of land and climate on the course of events. These new ways of thinking have allowed us to spot historical undercurrents that were simply invisible to former generations.
All this activity adds up to a golden age for historical research. New truths about history are coming to light all the time, overturning the muddle and falsehood that infects many textbook accounts of the past. “History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues,” wrote the poet T.S. Eliot. Today, historical researchers are going deep into these dark passages and corridors and bringing some of the dusty issues out into the true, bright light of day.
[Reader’s Digest Book: The Truth About History]
1. What is the primary purpose of the author?
1. To argue that history has so far been a series of accepted judgments that now need to be challenged.
2. To illustrate how history is now becoming more scientific in its approach as a result of a technological revolution in historical research.
3. To highlight that we are now closer to the facts of history than ever before.
4. To revel in the technological revolution in historical research.
2. Which of the following is the author most likely to agree with?
1. Archaeology is being rendered obsolete as a result of the technological revolution in historical research.
2. Historical research has shifted from archaeological sites to the library.
3. History as a subject falls strictly under the humanities.
4. History has become a broader subject as a result of the technological revolution in historical research.
3. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
1. DNA analysis of skulls and bones of pre-historic humans add to our understanding of how our species spread across the world.
2. Forensic analysis of Emperor Napoleon’s hair was undertaken by a historian instead of a pathologist.
3. Historical ecology gives us an understanding of how ecological factors influence the characteristics, the growth and decline of societies and civilizations.
4. History textbooks essentially present muddled facts and falsehoods.
4. Which of the following cannot be inferred as an example of the technological revolution taking place in historical research to unearth the truth about history?
1. Certain malaria-resistant genes found in Europeans reveal that a virulent malaria had weakened the Roman population when the German barbarians attacked them, leading to the decline of the Roman Empire.
2. Traces of hop hornbeam pollen found in the intestines of Otzi the iceman (about 3300 BC) reveal that the iceman had died in the warmth of spring when these plants flower and was not frozen to death in the winter as earlier believed.
3. Research into old records of the folklore of 15th-century east Europe reveals that the legend surrounding Count Dracula was built up from east European superstitions about the dead and how to ward away the devil found in vampire stories by earlier writers.
4. Images from spaces and 3D maps drawn by radio waves helped in discovering the fabled lost city of Ubar in southern Oman, which was a bustling trading centre 5000 years ago.
(19 Mar) SENTENCE COMPLETION
Directions: There are two gaps in each of the following sentences. From the pairs of words given, choose the one that fills the gaps most appropriately. The first word in the pair should fill the first gap.
1. Such __________ is not unusual in talks between government heads, but PM’s insistent public references to “distrust in our relationship” during his recent visit to China have probably left the Chinese __________.
1. tact, ambivalent
2. effrontery, incensed
3. candour, bemused
4. bonhomie, gratified
2. Economists talk about the “Walmart effect” that the __________ cheap chain has had on curbing prices; Indians, as they fret over soaring food costs, might find multi-brand retailer chains a __________.
1. ubiquitous, godsend
2. predatory, blessing
3. popular, distraction
4. reputed, curse
(20 Mar) MULTIPLE USAGE
Directions: In each of the questions, a word has been used in sentences in four different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
1. Critical
1. The film has received critical acclaim.
2. The experiment is at a critical stage.
3. Your decision is critical for your future.
4. He remains critical of the government’s policies.
2. Exception
1. Most airlines had not done well in recent years, but Indigo is the exception that disproves the rule.
2. The teacher took exception to the student’s flippant comments.
3. Good writing ability is unfortunately the exception rather than the rule.
4. He always plays pop tunes, and tonight was no exception.
(21 Mar) IDIOMATIC USE OF PREPOSITIONS
EXERCISE ON PREPOSITIONS
1. Directions: Write an appropriate preposition in each blank.
1. Anuj had been missing ______ home for two days now, and I was beginning to feel afraid ______ his safety. He
had left because I was annoyed ______ his poor exam results and had shouted ______ him.
2. When she was at school, Hema was very keen ______ music and languages. She was involved ______ the
school orchestra and I remember that she was responsible ______ setting up the German Society. She was
always very popular ______ her fellow pupils.
3. It was important ______ me to get home early as Smita and Sameer were coming over for dinner. But when I
got to the station I saw that it was crowded ______ people waiting for trains delayed because of the bad
weather. Just then, a car pulled up and a man inside shouted ______ me, offering me a lift. My first reaction was to be suspicious ______ him, until I realised that it was Smita’s brother. He said he was going my way and he
would be glad ______ the company on the drive home through the snow.
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(22 Mar) IDIOMATIC USE OF PREPOSITIONS
Directions: Write an appropriate preposition in each blank. (Open Dictionary Test)
1. Her child is not amenable ______ discipline.
2. If you are deficient ______ social qualities, you cannot succeed in life.
3. This kind of action would be derogatory ______ his dignity.
4. We could not prevail ______ him to remain silent.
5. All members are responsible ______ the Chairman of the committee.
6. He could never reconcile ______ the inferior post offered to him.
7. Historians have concurred ______ each other ______ this view.
8. I normally agree ______ whatever my boss says, but rarely agree ______ her.
9. Please help yourself ______ some pastries.
10. The students mistook the approaching man ______ the principal.
(23 Mar) MULTIPLE AND IDIOMATIC USAGE
Directions: In each of the questions, a word has been used in sentences in four different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentence in which the usage of the word is incorrect or inappropriate.
1. Pen
1. Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Clemens.
2. I want to pen a letter of apology and make up to her.
3. The student read the exam paper carefully before putting pen on paper.
4. Voltaire is a classic example of the pen being mightier than the sword.
2. Boil
1. Their discussions often boil over into fierce arguments.
2. We have several projects all on boil at once.
3. His speeches boil down to an empty show of concern.
4. The doctor prescribed an antibiotic for the boil on his upper lip.
3. Ride
1. His political fortunes ride on these elections.
2. It is not a pleasant feeling to discover you have been taken for a ride by someone you trusted.
3. My ride fell off the bike and received serious injuries as I suddenly turned the corner.
4. He hasn’t learnt to ride a car yet.
4. Fish
1. The aquarium was well stocked with fish from different water-bodies.
2. It was obvious that she was trying to fish for compliments.
3. Pakistan likes to fish in troubled waters in neighbouring countries rather than focusing on its own internal problems.
4. He won’t come to our party; he has other fish to fry.
5. Goose
1. When the police found his fingerprints, he realized that his goose was cooked and confessed.
2. It gave me goose bumps just to think of the time when I jumped from the 10-metre diving board into the pool.
3. What is good for the goose is good for the geese; so I also joined up along with my friends.
4. You silly goose, there is nothing to be frightened of.
Let w,x,y and z be four natural numbers such that their sum is 8m+10 where m is a natural number. Given m,which of the following is necessarily true?
1) max possible value of w^2+x^2+y^2+z^2 = 6m^2+40m+26
2) max possible value of w^2+x^2+y^2+z^2 = 6m^2+40m+28
3) min possible value of w^2+x^2+y^2+z^2 = 6m^2+40m+28
4) min possible value of w^2+x^2+y^2+z^2 = 6m^2+40m+26
(24 Mar) MULTIPLE & IDIOMATIC USAGE
These questions test for the following aspects of grammar and usage:
1. Multiple Meanings of a Word.
2. Multiple Usage as Different Parts of Speech/Grammatical Forms.
3. Diction: Correct Choice of Words.
4. Different Idioms or Saying connected with a Word.
5. Correct Use of Articles with Countable/Uncountable Nouns.
6. Different Verb Patterns connected with a Verb.
7. Phrasal Verbs formed from a Verb.
8. Different Prepositions used with a Verb, Noun or Adjective.
9. Singular or Plural of Nouns.
10.Logical Consistency in Usage.
1. Touch
1. No one can touch him when it comes to video games.
2. A spark from a camp fire can touch of a bush fire.
3. He is a touch too sure of himself.
4. She suspected a touch of sarcasm in his tone.
2. Native
1. Although he has little formal education, he has plenty of native intelligence.
2. Although she speaks it fluently, French is not her native language.
3. He is a native of Greece, but lives in Canada.
4. Bufo marinus toads are natives of South America but were introduced into Florida in an attempt to control pests.
3. Peer
1. The children would peer at the darkness through their window, trying to make out the indistinct shapes.
2. It can be hard for teenagers to resist peer pressure to consume alcohol.
3. The Egyptian Queen Nefertiti’s beauty is without peer.
4. A British peer is a baron, duke or any member of the aristocracy.
4. Open
1. Open relationships are becoming an institution in its own right among the youth, replacing the age-old institution of marriage.
2. MK Gandhi comes across as an unabashedly open person in his autobiography.
3. Your new job will open up exciting possibilities for you.
4. My friends can drop in anytime as we keep our house open.
5. Account
1. She has put her talent for languages to good account as a travel consultant.
2. Please don’t bother to make tea of my account.
3. Why are we obsessed with this matter; it is of little account.
4. The biblical account of the creation of the world can be found in the book of Genesis.