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5073. EVASIVE

A. Free
B. Honest
C. Liberal
D. Frank
✅ The correct answer is option D.

5078. S1: This year many States have been badly affected by the drought situation prevailing in the country. P: No better is the situation elsewhere, where floods have ravaged the standing crop. Q: Though some have been less affected, even these are facing an uphill task in managing the situation. R: Especially pitiable is the plight of the poor farmer who cannot afford a tubewell to irrigate his land. S: Here the predicament is more equitable, for everybody’s land is similarly submerged under ten feet of water. S6: Either way, it seems the lot of the Indian farmer to be at the mercy of the elements. The Proper sequence should be:

A. RSPQ
B. QRPS
C. PSRQ
D. PRQS
✅ The correct answer is option B.

5079. S1: There have been many myths about women in world literature. P: Odysseus found a way to save himself and his sailors from this evil fate. Q: The sirens were beautiful maidens whose songs enchanted sailors on the seas. R: Odysseus encounter with the sirens during his return home after the fall of Troy is typical of this. S: Their songs were so captivating that the sailors swam towards them and died miserable deaths. S6: He filled his rower’s ears with wax and had himself bound to the mast so that he could hear the sweet singing without diving overboard to his death. The Proper sequence should be:

A. PQRS
B. PQSR
C. QSPR
D. RQSP
✅ The correct answer is option D.

5080. S1: There is a touching story of Professor Hardy visiting Ramanujan as he lay desperately ill in hospital at Putney. P: “No Hardy, that is not a dull number in the very least. Q: Hardy, who was a very shy man, could not find the words for his distress. R: It was 1729. S: The best he could do, as he got to the bedside was : “I say, Ramanujan, I thought the number of the taxi I came down in was a very dull number.” S6: It is the lowest number that can be expressed in two different ways as the sum of two cubes.” The Proper sequence should be:

A. PRSQ
B. QSPR
C. QSRP
D. SQRP
✅ The correct answer is option C.