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Reasoning [ Question No: 1 To 5 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 1 To 1 ] :
Choose the correct alternative from the following.
Assertion (A) : Baking soda creates acidity in the stomach.
Reason (R) : Baking soda is alkaline.
This sequence has been cut off before its last term. Settle on the rule the terms obey and give the next number.
12, 24, 48, 96, ?
The list below is incomplete by exactly one term. Establish what governs the terms and give the one that comes next.
4, 12, 18, 54, 60, ?
Pointing to a man in photograph, a woman said, "His brother's father is the only son of my grandfather." How is the woman related to the man in the photograph ?
If FRIEND is coded as HUMJTK, how is CANDLE written in that code ?
English Language [ Question No: 6 To 14 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
1. Every now and then we would speed through a village lined with waving Tibetan children. Their villages looked wonderful and so inviting that Dorje was not showing any signs of slowing down. Small clusters of single and double storey buildings with walk-in courtyards jostled together in the foothills to gain maximum exposure to the sun. The houses looked solid, built for the harsh environment. Walls are made up of stone to waist height and finished off with mud bricks to the roof. Tin cans lined the window ledges, with the bright orange of marigolds in full bloom livening up the black-and-white of the houses.
2. Branches of trees adorned with colourful prayer flags stood high into the wind from the top of the flat roofs. The auspicious blue, white, red, green and yellow colours of the fabrics stood out against the rich blue of the Tibetan sky. Each prayer flag carries a picture of Lungta, the jewelled dragon horse, who carries the owner's prayers up to the divine every time the flag flaps in the wind.
3. The larger villages have healthy trees, usually willows or poplars which look quite out of place in the generally treeless landscape. Wood is a precious commodity in the highland areas of Tibet and is never wasted. The few shrubs which grow wild on the hillsides are harvested for use as brushwood and each courtyard wall is piled high with sticks gathered from the mountains to get a fire started. The lack of solid fuel in the shape of wood is not a problem for the Tibetans, who have an ingenious wood substitute : yak dung.
What aspect of Tibetan houses as described in the passage is incorrect ?
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
Perhaps the worst of the ordeals was to be shut in a darkened room for long, uncertain periods, in solitary confinement and complete silence. Gagarin himself described the experience.
"There was no sound, not even the slightest rustle. No movement of the air-nothing. It was uncanny, unnerving."
He would shut his eyes and imagine himself in a space-cabin in orbit, looking at the world passing beneath him; or sometimes he would recite half-remembered poetry to himself.
Then, came parachute training. Gagarin made forty parachute jumps of gradually increasing difficulty.
One of the most interesting of the training experiments was the method of providing experience of weightlessness. In the early stages the express lift of the great Moscow University building was used. From the twenty-eighth floor to the bottom allowed a drop of 500 feet. At a certain high speed the passenger would find himself suspended between the floor and ceiling of the lift without support. This was a convenient and inexpensive way of reproducing 'zero gravity'.
Special air brakes prevented the lift from crashing as it reached the bottom.
On the morning of April 12, Gagarin rose at 5.30. He was zipped into his complicated space-suit, on top of which went a pale blue fibre suit, and finally an orange one. Then an Air Force bus drove him to the launching site in company with various helpers. The gantry lift took him up 100 feet, to the nose of the rocket, and he entered the cabin (named Vostok) with a wave to those below.
Study the following statements :
(a) In his private life Gagarin was a poet.
(b) In the experimental darkroom there was no air.
Direction for [ Question No: 8 To 8 ] :
Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow.
My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky;
Its time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
For every night at tea time and before you take your seat,
With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.
Now Tom would be a driver and Maria may go to the sea;
And my papa's a banker and as rich as he can be;
But I, when I'm stronger and choose what I'm to do,
O Leerie, I'll go around at night and light the lamps with you
For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door;
And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more;
And O ! Before you hurry by with ladder and with light,
O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him tonight !
The phrase, 'the sun has left the sky' indicates that -
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
Directions : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
Aimee had a painful childhood. She was born in 1975 with no shin bones. The doctors therfore had to amputate both her legs so that she would be able to walk later in life. Unfortunately, she had to undergo a number of surgeries at the age of two, five and eight, and had to spend a long time in a hospital. Aimee grew up with artificial legs. Her mother, however, treated her as a self-sufficient person who did not require any special treatment. She was gradually able to learn how to move and run, and even play various sports like softball and go swimming, hiking and skiing.
When she was in high school, Aimee discovered her passion for athletics. Towards the end of high school, she participated in the Boston track and field meet for the disabled. On arriving in Boston, she was surprised to discover that she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs. The rest of the athletes had metal, shock-absorbent legs that she didn't even know existed. Not to mention that all the other athletes had at least one normal leg. This fact did not shake her determination; instead it made her push herself harder to succeed. And succeed she did - she not only won, she also broke a national record in doing so. She decided to enter the long jump competition next, an event that double amputees were technically 'not supposed' to enter. A year later, she broke the world record in it.
Aimee was not happy with the way prosthetic legs were designed. So she invited innovators to combine science and art, and design unconventional prosthetic legs. She was soon wearing cheetah legs, handcrafted wooden legs, jellyfish legs and many more. She now began getting invitations from different parts of the world to talk about her life story and designer legs. The fashion and beauty industry took note of Aimee's talent and beauty and asked her to model for, or endorse beauty products. Today she is a global model for a leading brand of cosmetics.
Which one of the following words is most opposite to the word, 'unconventional' ?
Direction for [ Question No: 10 To 10 ] :
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct?
Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. The principal appointed him as a peon in the college.
2. The principal appointed him a peon in the college.
3. As a peon the principal appointed him in the college.
4. The principal as a peon appointed him in the college.
Direction for [ Question No: 11 To 11 ] :
In each of the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Select the most appropriate synonym of the following word. Wilful
Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words. Short form of a word or phrase
______________ is a heavy metal.
Computer Awareness [ Question No: 15 To 15 ] :
Expand the term VPN :
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 16 To 20 ] :
Who discovered Paleolithic tools from Jhalawar?
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20
Reasoning [ Question No: 1 To 5 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 1 To 1 ] :
Choose the correct alternative from the following.
Assertion (A) : Baking soda creates acidity in the stomach.
Reason (R) : Baking soda is alkaline.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: A is false but R is true.
Baking soda, sodium bicarbonate, is indeed alkaline, so R is true. But that is why it relieves acidity: it neutralises the excess hydrochloric acid in the stomach. It does not create acidity, so A is false.
This sequence has been cut off before its last term. Settle on the rule the terms obey and give the next number.
12, 24, 48, 96, ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Correct answer: 192
The terms are multiplied rather than added to. Dividing each by its predecessor gives the same result throughout: 24 over 12 is 2, and 48 over 24 is 2, so the ratio is 2. Multiplying the last term, 96 times 2 is 192. As a check, dividing the answer by 2 returns 96, which is the last term shown. Every question in this topic can be answered from the terms shown, with no outside knowledge required.
The list below is incomplete by exactly one term. Establish what governs the terms and give the one that comes next.
4, 12, 18, 54, 60, ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
Correct answer: 180
The steps run 8, 6, 36, 6, which grow and then fall back, so a single operation cannot account for them. Two operations are applied in turn, and continuing the alternation from 60 gives 180. As a check, the step from 60 to the answer is 120, which breaks the run of preceding gaps exactly as an alternating rule demands. The distractor formed by applying the wrong operation is always among the options in questions of this shape.
Pointing to a man in photograph, a woman said, "His brother's father is the only son of my grandfather." How is the woman related to the man in the photograph ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Correct answer: Sister
His brother’s father is simply the man’s own father. The only son of my grandfather is the woman’s own father. So the two share a father, which makes the woman the man’s sister.
If FRIEND is coded as HUMJTK, how is CANDLE written in that code ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
Correct answer: EDRIRL
The shift increases along the word. FRIEND to HUMJTK is F+2, R+3, I+4, E+5, N+6, D+7. Applying the same increasing shift to CANDLE gives C+2=E, A+3=D, N+4=R, D+5=I, L+6=R, E+7=L, that is EDRIRL. A constant shift would not reproduce the example, so the differences must be worked out letter by letter.
English Language [ Question No: 6 To 14 ] :
Direction for [ Question No: 6 To 6 ] :
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
1. Every now and then we would speed through a village lined with waving Tibetan children. Their villages looked wonderful and so inviting that Dorje was not showing any signs of slowing down. Small clusters of single and double storey buildings with walk-in courtyards jostled together in the foothills to gain maximum exposure to the sun. The houses looked solid, built for the harsh environment. Walls are made up of stone to waist height and finished off with mud bricks to the roof. Tin cans lined the window ledges, with the bright orange of marigolds in full bloom livening up the black-and-white of the houses.
2. Branches of trees adorned with colourful prayer flags stood high into the wind from the top of the flat roofs. The auspicious blue, white, red, green and yellow colours of the fabrics stood out against the rich blue of the Tibetan sky. Each prayer flag carries a picture of Lungta, the jewelled dragon horse, who carries the owner's prayers up to the divine every time the flag flaps in the wind.
3. The larger villages have healthy trees, usually willows or poplars which look quite out of place in the generally treeless landscape. Wood is a precious commodity in the highland areas of Tibet and is never wasted. The few shrubs which grow wild on the hillsides are harvested for use as brushwood and each courtyard wall is piled high with sticks gathered from the mountains to get a fire started. The lack of solid fuel in the shape of wood is not a problem for the Tibetans, who have an ingenious wood substitute : yak dung.
What aspect of Tibetan houses as described in the passage is incorrect ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : A
The incorrect description is that walls are made of mortar and cement.
Paragraph 1 says: 'Walls are made up of stone to waist height and finished off with mud bricks to the roof.' Mortar and cement are not mentioned; the walls are stone and mud brick.
'Tin cans line the window ledges' and 'They are solidly built' both match the passage ('Tin cans lined the window ledges'; 'The houses looked solid'). 'Roofs are made of mud bricks' is a loose reading of 'mud bricks to the roof', which describes the walls; the passage gives the roofs only as flat. It is unsupported rather than contradicted, which makes the mortar-and-cement statement the clearly incorrect one, as keyed.
Direction for [ Question No: 7 To 7 ] :
Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow :
Perhaps the worst of the ordeals was to be shut in a darkened room for long, uncertain periods, in solitary confinement and complete silence. Gagarin himself described the experience.
"There was no sound, not even the slightest rustle. No movement of the air-nothing. It was uncanny, unnerving."
He would shut his eyes and imagine himself in a space-cabin in orbit, looking at the world passing beneath him; or sometimes he would recite half-remembered poetry to himself.
Then, came parachute training. Gagarin made forty parachute jumps of gradually increasing difficulty.
One of the most interesting of the training experiments was the method of providing experience of weightlessness. In the early stages the express lift of the great Moscow University building was used. From the twenty-eighth floor to the bottom allowed a drop of 500 feet. At a certain high speed the passenger would find himself suspended between the floor and ceiling of the lift without support. This was a convenient and inexpensive way of reproducing 'zero gravity'.
Special air brakes prevented the lift from crashing as it reached the bottom.
On the morning of April 12, Gagarin rose at 5.30. He was zipped into his complicated space-suit, on top of which went a pale blue fibre suit, and finally an orange one. Then an Air Force bus drove him to the launching site in company with various helpers. The gantry lift took him up 100 feet, to the nose of the rocket, and he entered the cabin (named Vostok) with a wave to those below.
Study the following statements :
(a) In his private life Gagarin was a poet.
(b) In the experimental darkroom there was no air.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The key says (b) is right and (a) is wrong. I could not make (b) agree with the passage word for word.
(a) is wrong: Gagarin recited half-remembered poetry to himself, but the passage never says he was a poet. For (b), Gagarin describes the room as 'no sound, not even the slightest rustle. No movement of the air'. The key reads this as 'no air', which is what the statement says.
Strictly the passage says there was no movement of the air, not that there was no air, and a room with no air could not have held him for long periods. On that strict reading both statements would be wrong, which is another option. The explanation follows the official key; the reader should note that (b) is a loose paraphrase of the passage.
Direction for [ Question No: 8 To 8 ] :
Read the given extract and answer the questions that follow.
My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky;
Its time to take the window to see Leerie going by;
For every night at tea time and before you take your seat,
With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.
Now Tom would be a driver and Maria may go to the sea;
And my papa's a banker and as rich as he can be;
But I, when I'm stronger and choose what I'm to do,
O Leerie, I'll go around at night and light the lamps with you
For we are very lucky, with a lamp before the door;
And Leerie stops to light it as he lights so many more;
And O ! Before you hurry by with ladder and with light,
O Leerie, see a little child and nod to him tonight !
The phrase, 'the sun has left the sky' indicates that -
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
The phrase indicates that it is evening time.
The poem begins with tea nearly ready and Leerie coming up the street 'every night at tea time' with a lantern and ladder. A lamplighter lights the lamps when it grows dark, so the sun having left the sky means that evening has come.
Morning, forenoon and afternoon are all times when the sun is up, and no lamps are lit.
Direction for [ Question No: 9 To 9 ] :
Directions : Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.
Aimee had a painful childhood. She was born in 1975 with no shin bones. The doctors therfore had to amputate both her legs so that she would be able to walk later in life. Unfortunately, she had to undergo a number of surgeries at the age of two, five and eight, and had to spend a long time in a hospital. Aimee grew up with artificial legs. Her mother, however, treated her as a self-sufficient person who did not require any special treatment. She was gradually able to learn how to move and run, and even play various sports like softball and go swimming, hiking and skiing.
When she was in high school, Aimee discovered her passion for athletics. Towards the end of high school, she participated in the Boston track and field meet for the disabled. On arriving in Boston, she was surprised to discover that she was the only athlete wearing wooden legs. The rest of the athletes had metal, shock-absorbent legs that she didn't even know existed. Not to mention that all the other athletes had at least one normal leg. This fact did not shake her determination; instead it made her push herself harder to succeed. And succeed she did - she not only won, she also broke a national record in doing so. She decided to enter the long jump competition next, an event that double amputees were technically 'not supposed' to enter. A year later, she broke the world record in it.
Aimee was not happy with the way prosthetic legs were designed. So she invited innovators to combine science and art, and design unconventional prosthetic legs. She was soon wearing cheetah legs, handcrafted wooden legs, jellyfish legs and many more. She now began getting invitations from different parts of the world to talk about her life story and designer legs. The fashion and beauty industry took note of Aimee's talent and beauty and asked her to model for, or endorse beauty products. Today she is a global model for a leading brand of cosmetics.
Which one of the following words is most opposite to the word, 'unconventional' ?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The word most opposite to 'unconventional' is Traditional.
Unconventional means not following accepted customs or the usual way of doing things. Traditional means following long-established custom, so it is the antonym.
The other options are near-synonyms of unconventional. Innovative means introducing new ideas or methods, eccentric means oddly unconventional in behaviour, and unusual means not common or ordinary. All three point the same way as the given word.
Direction for [ Question No: 10 To 10 ] :
Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold type to make the grammatically correct?
Select the grammatically correct sentence:
1. The principal appointed him as a peon in the college.
2. The principal appointed him a peon in the college.
3. As a peon the principal appointed him in the college.
4. The principal as a peon appointed him in the college.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
It is sentence 2.
Appoint takes an object and a complement directly - appointed him a peon. Sentences 3 and 4 move the phrase so that it modifies the principal or the appointing rather than the man appointed.
Direction for [ Question No: 11 To 11 ] :
In each of the following questions, choose the word opposite in meaning to the given word.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : E
The opposite is lenience.
Austerity is severity of manner or of living. Hardness, extreme and formality belong on the same side; lenience is mildness.
Select the most appropriate synonym of the following word. Wilful
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Headstrong is the synonym of wilful. A wilful person is determined to do what he or she wants, even against advice, which is what headstrong means. Willing means ready to do something, hopeful means expecting something good, and light-headed means dizzy or frivolous, so none of these matches wilful. Wilful means deliberately determined to have one's own way, even in spite of advice or authority. Headstrong has the same sense of being obstinate and self-willed, while willing means ready and cooperative, which is almost the opposite.
Select the option that can be used as a one-word substitute for the given group of words. Short form of a word or phrase
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
The word is Abbreviation.
An abbreviation is a short form of a word or phrase. Correlation is a relationship, slang is informal language and expansion is the opposite of shortening.
So only abbreviation fits.
The word comes from the Latin 'abbreviare', to shorten. Examples are 'Dr.' for Doctor and 'etc.' for et cetera. An acronym such as NASA is a kind of abbreviation that is read as a word.
______________ is a heavy metal.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
It is lead.
Lead the metal is pronounced led, which is why the past tense of the verb to lead is spelt led and the metal is not. A lid covers a container.
Computer Awareness [ Question No: 15 To 15 ] :
Expand the term VPN :
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
VPN stands for Virtual Private Network.
A VPN creates an encrypted tunnel over a public network such as the internet, so that a user can connect securely to a private network, for example an office network from home, as if directly attached to it. It also hides the user's traffic from others on the same network.
'Public', 'Protected' and 'Proxy' are not part of the name; the point of a VPN is to give a private connection over a public network.
General Awareness / General Knowledge (GK) [ Question No: 16 To 20 ] :
Who discovered Paleolithic tools from Jhalawar?
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The tools were discovered by Seton Karr.
H. W. Seton-Karr found Palaeolithic stone tools in the Jhalawar region in the early twentieth century, one of the first discoveries of Stone Age tools in Rajasthan.
V. N. Misra worked later, from the 1950s, on prehistoric sites along the Berach and Gambhiri rivers and at Bagor, and C. A. Hackett is linked with early finds in the Jaipur and Indragarh area. Neither made the Jhalawar discovery.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Alessandro Volta invented it.
His voltaic pile of 1800 stacked discs of zinc and silver separated by brine-soaked cloth, giving the first steady electric current. Galvani's twitching frog's legs had prompted the work, but Volta showed the electricity came from the metals, not the animal.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : D
Ampicillin is an antibiotic, a semi-synthetic penicillin effective against a broader range of bacteria than penicillin itself.
Like all penicillins it works by preventing bacteria from building their cell walls, so it kills only growing cells and has no effect on viruses.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : C
He first taught the Dharma at Sarnath.
After his enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, the Buddha went to the deer park at Sarnath near Varanasi and preached to his five former companions - the first turning of the wheel of the law. The Lion Capital of Ashoka, India's state emblem, was found there.
Your Answer : (Not Answered)
Correct Answer : B
The rate at which temperature changes with distance is the temperature gradient. Measured vertically in the atmosphere it is the lapse rate; measured horizontally it drives the winds.
A temperature difference is a single subtraction with no distance in it, and an isotherm is a line joining places of equal temperature.
Marks
Total number of questions : 20
Number of answered questions : 0
Number of unanswered questions : 20