List of top Questions asked in NPAT

Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank.
Despite layers of ________each currently beyond the reach of modern computers, young children readily solve the linguistic puzzles facing them, even surpassing their input when it lacks the expected structure.

Select the correct spelling from the given options.

Select the correct spelling from the given options.

Select the option that best gives the meaning of the word phrase in bold. Most succulents are easy to care for and are the best plants for gardeners who are
beginners.

Select the option that best fills in the blank and completes the sentence given below. The animals are basically similar, differences in size, shape and colour of features produce a variety of appearances.

Select the option that best fills in the blank and completes the sentence given below. The language ________ in the early 17th century in Rome.

Select the option that best fills in the blank and completes the sentence given below. We ________ study so much in the past.

Select the option that best fills in the blank and completes the sentence given below. ________ of the actors was paid a hefty amount to perform at the awards function.

Select the option that best fills in the blank and completes the sentence given below. The boys were bored because they had ________ to do in the art class.

Select the option that best fills in the blank and completes the sentence given below. ________ the fact that it was difficult, Dhananjay managed to solve the physics paper.

Given below are five sentences labeled A, B, C, D and E. They are NOT in a meaningful order. Select the option that arranges the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful paragraph.
(1) A: This would give more time to reduce carbon emissions to stop the permafrost thaw, to curb risk and global warming.
(2) B: A team modelled the impact of frozen carbon and global temperature rise on permafrost melt in frozen permafrost.
(3) C: Researchers say steps to lower the rise in temperature will give much needed breathing room.
(4) D: Permafrost is frozen ground that lies under glacier and tundra regions.
(5) E: An international team of researchers now suggest that currently its remains will rapidly disintegrate in as little as 6 days.

Select the option that best fills in the blank and completes the sentence given below. The families have known each other __________ a decade now.

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
If we look around us at the things we have purchased at some point in our lives, we would no doubt notice that not everything we own is being put to good use: the thick woolen coat that we thought looked trendy despite the fact that we live in a tropical country, the smartphone that got put away when we bought ourselves the newest model, the car that only gets used at the weekends, or even the guest room in our house that somehow got turned into a storeroom. 
Those underutilised items may seem useless to some but could be an asset to others. With the advent of the internet, online communities have figured out a way to generate profit from the sharing of those underused assets. Using websites and social media groups that facilitate the buying and selling of second-hand goods, it is now easier than ever for peer-to-peer sharing activities to take place. And this is known as the sharing economy. 
These democratised online platforms are providing a chance for people to make a quick buck or two. To give an example, busy parents previously might not have bothered with setting up a stall at the local market or car boot sale to sell their children’s old equipment, but with online marketplaces, parents are now able to sell on those hardly worn baby clothes that their children have outgrown and the expensive pushchairs and baby equipment they have invested in, so as to put some cash back into their pockets. Businesses have also caught on to the profitability of the sharing economy and are seeking to gain from making use of those underutilised resources. A business model that has rapidly risen in popularity sees companies providing an online platform that puts customers in contact with those who can provide a particular product or service. Companies such as Airbnb act as a middleman for people to cash in on their unused rooms and houses and let them out as lucrative accommodation. Another example is Uber, which encourages people to use their own personal cars as taxis to make some extra cash in their free time. 
This move towards a sharing economy is not without criticisms. Unlike businesses, unregulated individuals do not have to follow certain regulations, and this can lead to poorer and inconsistent quality of goods and services and a higher risk of fraud. Nevertheless, in the consumerist society we live in today, the increased opportunities to sell on our unwanted and underused goods can lead to a lesser impact on our environment

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.
Under capitalism, the argument goes, it’s every man for himself. Through the relentless pursuit of self-interest, everyone benefits, as if an invisible hand were guiding each of us toward the common good. Everyone should accordingly try to get as much as they can, not only for their goods but also for their labour. What ever the market price is, in turn, what the buyer should pay. Just like the idea that there should be a minimum wage, the idea that there should be a maximum wage seems to undermine the very freedom that the free market is supposed to guarantee.
 This view, however, has some dramatic consequences. One is the explosion in economic inequality that almost all liberal capitalist democracies have experienced over the past 30-40 years. The difference between the top and the bottom of the income distribution now lies about where it did in the Gilded Age and the roaring 1920s, up until the Great Depression. Unlike these earlier periods, however, this rise in economic inequality has not been driven by returns on capital assets. This time, one of the most important contributors to the rise has been the payment of extraordinarily high levels of compensation to corporate executives... More troubling still, while the compensation for corporate executives has been almost continually rising during this period, real (inflation-adjusted) wages for almost everybody else have been stagnating. 
Many people find this upsetting but, even so, they tend to treat it as something capitalism requires us to tolerate. Others think it is something that capitalism requires us to applaud. But nothing in capitalism actually says that such sky-high levels of compensation are permissible. What capitalism says instead is that people need incentives to be maximally productive. But will someone who makes 100millionayearreallyworkharderthansomeonewhomakes10 million? Compensation, like everything else, has what economists call ’diminishing marginal utility’. More of it has less and less of an incentivising effect, until eventually it has no incentivising effect at all-people are already working as hard as they can. At which point capitalism suggests that we should not pay someone even more money, for we are going to get nothing in return. 
But wait- aren’t CEOs just getting paid the market rate for their labour? Their compensation is calculated according to a formula set when they were hired and, as long as this formula represents the going wage, then this is what they should receive. The market rate for CEO labour, however, is not set in a competitive manner. The formula is set by a special group of the company’s directors, called ’the compensation committee’.... Next time someone hires a CEO and another compensation committee conducts a survey, the average will be higher. The market is not bidding up the price; the price is going up simply because everyone always wants to beat the current average. We have what economists call a market failure. Setting a maximum wage would therefore not interfere with market freedom because, in this instance, the market is not working