Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows:

Arti is planning for higher studies and her future goals include working as a manager of a non-profit organisation designed to provide assistance to underrepresented populations. Arti researched the mission statements of various colleges and discovered that college $\mathrm{X}$, a small private college with a fee of Rs. $8$lakhs per year, was dedicated to producing compassionate and curious leaders. College $\mathrm{Y}$, a large institute with a fee of Rs. $9$lakh per year, promoted itself as a leading research facility. Based on her research, she decided to apply to college $\mathrm{X}$ rather than College $\mathrm{Y}$.

Which of the following options is the most likely explanation of Arti's decision?

The season will pass. The Prime Minister may not win Lok Sabha elections, or she may; she may not continue as Prime Minister, or she may. The country will survive whatever the texture of politics in this decade or the next.

Which of the following, IF TRUE, will BEST reinforce the author's view?

Read the following conservation:

OINOS: I can comprehend you thus far - that certain operations of what we term Nature, or the natural laws, will, under certain conditions, give rise to that which has all the appearance of creation. Shortly before the final overthrow of the earth, there were, I well remember, many very successful experiments in what some philosophers were weak enough to denominate the creation of animalculae.

AGATHOS: The cases of which you speak were, in fact, instances of the secondary creation - and of the only species of creation which has ever, been, since the first word spoke into existence the first law.

Which of the following options CANNOT be DEFINITELY inferred based on the above conversation?

$\dots$ there is a degree of convergence of trust which can be summarised as follows. Trust is a particular level of the subjective probability with which an agent assesses that another agent or group of agents will perform a particular action. When we say we trust someone or that someone is trustworthy, we implicitly mean that the probability that he will perform an action is beneficial to us ...

Which of the following statements BEST COMPLETES the passage above?

On Friday morning, dieting supplement sales company Herbalife agreed to pay the US Federal Trade Commission a $\$200 \mathrm{m}$ fine. The FTC said Herbalife cheated hopeful salespeople out of hundreds of millions of dollars with a high-pressure multi-level marketing scheme.

Herbalife's stock received an immediate $15$per cent increase following the above news. The company also announced that it would hire a second former FTC commissioner in a press release describing the terms of the settlement.

Which of the following options would imply that the $15$per cent increase in stock price is fair?

Worldwide, tomato is one of the most important crops. Because this crop can be adapted for cultivation in various environments ranging from tropical to alpine regions, its cultivation area is now expanding worldwide into not so productive regions. On the other hand, traditional cultivation areas, the most favourable for tomato cultivation with warm and dry climate, are contracting. Every year, traditional cultivation areas lose $2$million hectares (ha) of land to environmental factors such as salinity, drought and soil erosion.

Which of the following is the coned inference based on the above passage?

Read the following paragraph and answer the question that follows:

Global surface temperatures in $2019$are on track to be either the second or third warmest since records began in the mid- $1800$s, behind only $2016$and possibly $2017$. On top of the long-term warming trend, temperatures in $2019$have been buoyed by a moderate El Niño event that is likely to persist through the rest of the year.

Which of the following statements can be BEST inferred based on the above paragraph?

In recent past, the Indian football team has lost most of the matches in international football tournaments. The most successful coaches in Indian club football tournaments are from Latin American countries. In most of the Latin American countries, football is a more popular sport than cricket.

From the passage above, choose the correct option:

Consider the two related statements below:

Statement I: Offices and positions for the marginalised sections should be open to those with greater savings among them.

Statement II: Offices and positions must be open to everyone based on the principal of fair opportunity.

Which of the following is true?