CameraIcon

SearchIcon

MyQuestionIcon

1

You visited us 1 times! Enjoying our articles? Unlock Full Access!

Coastal Fisheries

Select the mi...

Question

Select the missing sentence as per the sequence:

A. The salmon fish pushed them-selves
B. ______________________
C. to return to their spawning grounds

A

to their limits

Right on! Give the BNAT exam to get a 100% scholarship for BYJUS courses

B

and fertilised them

No worries! We‘ve got your back. Try BYJU‘S free classes today!

C

but once they laid their eggs

No worries! We‘ve got your back. Try BYJU‘S free classes today!

D

they died

No worries! We‘ve got your back. Try BYJU‘S free classes today!

Open in App

Solution

The correct option is A to their limits
The idiom "push to limits" means testing the boundaries of acceptability in a given situation. So, option A is correct as it completes the idiom. The rest of the options describe the aftermath of such an activity.

Suggest Corrections

thumbs-up

0

Similar questions

The following six sentences come from a paragraph. The first and the last sentences are given. Choose the order in which the four sentences (PQRS) should appear to complete the paragraph.

S1. The salmon fish pushed themselves
P. to return to their spawning grounds
Q. and fertilized them
R. but once they laid their eggs
S. to their limits
S6. they died.

Select the conjunction which best completes the sentence.

The children wouldn’t sleep _________ they listened to a story and a lullaby from their nanny.

Q. The question below consist of a group of sentences followed by a suggested sequential arrangement. Select the best sequence.
A. As officials, their vision of a country shouldn't run too beyond that of the local people with whom they have to deal.
B. Ambassadors have to choose their words.
C. To say what they feel they have to say, they appear to be denying or ignoring part of what they know.
D. So, with ambassadors as with other expatriates in black Africa, there appears at a first meeting a kind of ambivalence.
E. They do a specialized job and it is necessary for them to line ceremonial lives.

The following six sentences come from a paragraph. The first and the last sentences are given. Choose the order in which the four sentences (PQRS) should appear to complete the paragraph.

S1 : In England, yesterday, villagers were amazed to see a number of youths floating over a field.
S6 : The others, however, returned safely to earth by puncturing their umbrellas before they had risen very far.
P : One boy let go his umbrella and landed on a cow from a height of about ten feet.
Q : Luckily, there were not as many casualties as there might have been.
R : Another ended up in a pond.
S : The youths, it appeared, had inflated their fathers' umbrellas with hydrogen and as a result were borne skywards.

The proper sequence should be:

“When a people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language it is as if they had the key to their prison.”

Can you think of examples in history where a conquered people had their language taken away from them or had a language imposed on them?

View More

Join BYJU'S Learning Program

similar_icon

Related Videos

lock

Pisciculture

BIOLOGY

Watch in App

explore_more_icon

Explore more

Coastal Fisheries

Standard XII Biology

Join BYJU'S Learning Program

CrossIcon