Choose the option that best fills the blank in the paragraph. The concept of the 'Villa' and other European ideas came to Lucknow with foreign soldiers, travellers and adventurers. For the Nawabs of Lucknow, architecture became the physical manifestation of their new status, and a way of proclaiming their alignment to the new power bloc. _____________________. Villas, hence, provided an ideal substitute. Europe sold to the Nawabs the idea of villas, based on designs in publications carried by them, and often aided by memory. The building chosen as the prototype for the famous Dilkusha Kothi was a country house in Northumberland.

Choose the option that best fills the blank in the paragraph. In the late 1960s, architect Charles Correa began his career as an urban planner, creating New Bombay (now Navi Mumbai), an urban area that provided housing and job opportunities for many who lived across the harbour f…

_________________ have to label their ____________________ posts in order to bring about transparency and ________________ the interests of the customers.

Choose the option that best fills the blank in the paragraph. A study of the social and cultural context of Indian poetry in English reveals several important insights into its origin. Indian poetry in English began in Bengal, the province where the British first gained a strongh…

Working from home requires that you may have to put your ______________ life on _______________. Some people find this very ________________ as they like to keep their work and home lives separate.

Choose the option that best completes the paragraph. _______________________. Conflicts are now brewing over rivers and river basins shared by many countries around the world. This is not unexpected, given the fact that more than two hundred water bodies are shared by two or more…

In its early stages, dementia is often _______________ from normal ageing, in which the older brain may naturally begin to show signs of cognitive impairment. Neither dementia nor cognitive ageing is currently _____________, though they may be slowed through diet, exercise, and k…

The setting of a story effects the storys plot. (Choose the option that best replaces the underlined part "effects the storys plot".)

The culture of the 21st century - on an increasingly ___________ scale - is oriented around the practical principles of utility, effectiveness, and impact. Things are good to the extent that they are instrumental, with instrumentality usually defined as the capacity to produce mo…