Question

for our petro-needs with re-aligned regimes.
Given the talent and expertise that we have in our diplomatic echelons, India can and
should be able to maximise leverage from the throes that grip the Gulf.
A. Answer the following questions very briefly on the basis of your reading of the
above passage.
1. What sustains the Gulf States as thriving economies?
2. How has the region been politically unsettled in recent times?
3. What effect can the region's recent unrest bear on India?
4. Which assets will prove invaluable to us in getting mileage out of the region's
volatile situation?
5. Give a suitable title to the passage.
B. Use the following words to make short sentences.
thrive, appropriated, revival, crippled, echelons.
2.
The fish were not biting and we were clueless till midnoon. My cousins and I had left for
the reservoir at dawn. Fishing gear - rods, lines, hooks, bait, sinkers - were readied the
night before. The usually barren hills were now lush with newly-sprouted greenery. The
rains were aplenty in the Aravallis as were eels, silverfish, carp, rohu and a variety of
delectable tronical fish,​
please tell

Answer 1

Answer:

echelons.

2.

The fish were not biting and we were clueless till midnoon. My cousins and I had left for

the reservoir at dawn. Fishing gear - rods, lines, hooks, bait, sinkers - were readied the

night before. The usually barren hills were now lush with newly-sprouted greenery. The

rains were aplenty in the Aravallis as were eels, silverfish, carp, rohu and a variety of

delectable tronical fish,