Practice Test

A. I saw the film in New york with an audience made up largely of Indian expatriates.
B. Danny Boyle reacted to that charge by pointing out that his Scottish characters in Trainspotting were also conniving, unprincipled and ruthless, and that he happened to like to depict people like that.
C. And the film's hero, played by the teenage British Indian actor Dev Patel with a look that combines intensity and expressiveness and yet seems utterly genuine, is as sincere a protagonist as you could hope to find.
D. In the enthusiastic discussion that followed, only one person reacted negatively, saying that the film seemed to show all Indians as conniving unprincipled and ruthless, and that the only compassionate people in the film were a pair of white tourists who give Jamal some money.
E. Something tells me that most Indian viewers will take this in stride - we live in a land largely devoid of larger than life heroes, and we have learned to take human beings as they are, which is to say, as grossly imperfect.

A. This is not the only fallout of switching to bio fuels.
B. Obama's new energy plan, which backs a greater use of ethanol, could worsen the situation.
C. In the US, government subsides have ensured that nearly 30 million tonnes of maize have been diverted for the production of ethanol.
D. Many American farmers are also switching to maize production from other crops.
E. Several studies have found evidence of a link between spiraling food prices and increased acreage for crops used to produce bio fuel.
F. This has led to an increase in global food prices particularly of wheat.

A. Driven by a personal motives, the parties enter into alliances notwithstanding ideological differences.
B. In this power game, the worst sufferers are the innocent citizens who vote them to power at the cost of their lives.
C.The crisis followed the elections in Jammu and Kashmir indicated the desperation of all the political parties to grab power.
D. But as soon as they gain power, they try to benefit as much as they can within a stipulated period.