Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
_______ the telephone rang, I rushed to attend to it.

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_______ the telephone rang, I rushed to attend to it.

Select the most appropriate meaning of the given idiom.
wash your dirty linen in public

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Tip-offs help police many a time to ________ criminals.

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After the Covid people like to travel in _______ own vehicles.

Select the most appropriate option to complete the sentence.
She is not able to sing properly of late as_______

Four statements are given below, labeled A, B, C, and D. Among these, three statements are in logical order and form a coherent paragraph. From the given options, select the option that does NOT fit into the theme of the passage.
A. The urban population of India is expected to double in the next 15 years to reach a level of 350-400 million.
B. India is losing 10 percent of its national income because of environment degradation.
C. At present, 20-33% of the urban population lives in slums without basic facilities.
D.The employment crisis precipitated by increasing urbanization and migration is expected to be a major problem in the decades ahead.

What is the meaning of the word ‘tumultuous’ used in the given passage?
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The decade of the 1970s stands out as the most tumultuous period in India in terms of inflationary uncertainty, witnessing very high inflation mainly driven by the supply shocks emanating from agricultural and oil prices. For the first time since independence, inflation overshot the level of 20% in 1973-74 and 1974-75 (25.2%). Reflecting the first overshot of 1973, the import price deflator surged by 43.0% and 72.8% during 1973-74 and 1974-75 respectively. In line with the sharp increase in average international crude oil prices by over 250% in 1974, domestic fuel prices increased sharply from an annual average of about 26.5% on average during the last three years beginning 1973-74. It was plainly observed that similar situations led to reappearance of high inflation in 1979-80.

What was the fundamental cause of inflation during 1970s?
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The decade of the 1970s stands out as the most tumultuous period in India in terms of inflationary uncertainty, witnessing very high inflation mainly driven by the supply shocks emanating from agricultural and oil prices. For the first time since independence, inflation overshot the level of 20% in 1973-74 and 1974-75 (25.2%). Reflecting the first overshot of 1973, the import price deflator surged by 43.0% and 72.8% during 1973-74 and 1974-75 respectively. In line with the sharp increase in average international crude oil prices by over 250% in 1974, domestic fuel prices increased sharply from an annual average of about 26.5% on average during the last three years beginning 1973-74. It was plainly observed that similar situations led to reappearance of high inflation in 1979-80.

Domestic fuel prices began their upward surge from the following year. Choose the CORRECT option.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the given questions.
The decade of the 1970s stands out as the most tumultuous period in India in terms of inflationary uncertainty, witnessing very high inflation mainly driven by the supply shocks emanating from agricultural and oil prices. For the first time since independence, inflation overshot the level of 20% in 1973-74 and 1974-75 (25.2%). Reflecting the first overshot of 1973, the import price deflator surged by 43.0% and 72.8% during 1973-74 and 1974-75 respectively. In line with the sharp increase in average international crude oil prices by over 250% in 1974, domestic fuel prices increased sharply from an annual average of about 26.5% on average during the last three years beginning 1973-74. It was plainly observed that similar situations led to reappearance of high inflation in 1979-80.

When did the inflation reappear?
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The decade of the 1970s stands out as the most tumultuous period in India in terms of inflationary uncertainty, witnessing very high inflation mainly driven by the supply shocks emanating from agricultural and oil prices. For the first time since independence, inflation overshot the level of 20% in 1973-74 and 1974-75 (25.2%). Reflecting the first overshot of 1973, the import price deflator surged by 43.0% and 72.8% during 1973-74 and 1974-75 respectively. In line with the sharp increase in average international crude oil prices by over 250% in 1974, domestic fuel prices increased sharply from an annual average of about 26.5% on average during the last three years beginning 1973-74. It was plainly observed that similar situations led to reappearance of high inflation in 1979-80.