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Question 1
Direction: Read the following passage and answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.
Passage
Ecological-research over the last quarter of the century has established the deleterious effects of habitat fragmentation due to mining, highways and such other intrusions on forests. When a large block of forests gets fragmented into smaller bits, the edges of all these bits come into contact with human activities resulting in the degradation of the entire forests. Continuity of forested landscapes and corridors gets disrupted affecting several extinction-prone species of wildlife. Habitat fragmentation, is therefore considered as the most serious threat to biodiversity conservation. Ad hoc grants of forest lands to mining companies coupled with rampant, illegal mining is aggravating this threat.
Passage
Ecological-research over the last quarter of the century has established the deleterious effects of habitat fragmentation due to mining, highways and such other intrusions on forests. When a large block of forests gets fragmented into smaller bits, the edges of all these bits come into contact with human activities resulting in the degradation of the entire forests. Continuity of forested landscapes and corridors gets disrupted affecting several extinction-prone species of wildlife. Habitat fragmentation, is therefore considered as the most serious threat to biodiversity conservation. Ad hoc grants of forest lands to mining companies coupled with rampant, illegal mining is aggravating this threat.
What is the central focus of this passage?
Question 2
Direction: Read the following passage and answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.
Passage
Ecological-research over the last quarter of the century has established the deleterious effects of habitat fragmentation due to mining, highways and such other intrusions on forests. When a large block of forests gets fragmented into smaller bits, the edges of all these bits come into contact with human activities resulting in the degradation of the entire forests. Continuity of forested landscapes and corridors gets disrupted affecting several extinction-prone species of wildlife. Habitat fragmentation, is therefore considered as the most serious threat to biodiversity conservation. Ad hoc grants of forest lands to mining companies coupled with rampant, illegal mining is aggravating this threat.
Passage
Ecological-research over the last quarter of the century has established the deleterious effects of habitat fragmentation due to mining, highways and such other intrusions on forests. When a large block of forests gets fragmented into smaller bits, the edges of all these bits come into contact with human activities resulting in the degradation of the entire forests. Continuity of forested landscapes and corridors gets disrupted affecting several extinction-prone species of wildlife. Habitat fragmentation, is therefore considered as the most serious threat to biodiversity conservation. Ad hoc grants of forest lands to mining companies coupled with rampant, illegal mining is aggravating this threat.
What is the purpose of maintaining the continuity of forested landscapes and corridors?
1) Preservation of biodiversity.
2) Management of mineral resources.
3) Grant of forest lands for human activities.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
1) Preservation of biodiversity.
2) Management of mineral resources.
3) Grant of forest lands for human activities.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
Question 3
In a rare coin collection, there is one gold coin for every three non-gold coins. 10 more gold coins are added to the collection and the ratio of gold coins to non-gold coins would be 1: 2. Based on the information; the total number of coins in the collection now becomes
Question 4
Direction: Read the following passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Yours answers to these items should be based on the passages only.
Passage
The law in many parts of the world increasingly restricts the discharge of agriculture slurry into watercourses. The simplest and often the most economically sound practice returns the material to the land as semisolid manure or as sprayed slurry. This dilutes its concentration in the environment to what might have occurred in a more primitive and sustainable type of agriculture and converts pollutant into fertilizer. Soil micro organisms decompose the organic components of sewage and slurry and most of the mineral nutrients become available to be absorbed again by the vegetation.
The excess input of nutrients, both nitrogen and phosphorus - based, from agriculture runoff (and human sewage) has caused many 'healthy' oligotrophic lakes (low nutrients concentrations, low plant productivity with abundant water weeds, and clear water) to change to eutrophic condition where high nutrients inputs lead to high phytoplankton productivity (sometimes dominated by bloom-forming toxic species). This makes the water turbid, eliminates large plants and, in the worst situation, leads to anoxia and fish kills, so called cultural eutrophication.
Thus, important ecosystem services are lost, including the provisioning service of wild-caught fish and the cultural services associated with recreation. The process of cultural eutrophication of lakes has been understood for some time. But only recently did scientists notice huge 'dead zones' in the oceans near river outlets, particularly those draining large catchment areas such as the Mississippi in North America and the Yangtze in China. The nutrients-enriched water flows through streams, rivers and lakes, and eventually to the estuary and ocean where the ecological impact may be huge, killing virtually all invertebrates and fish in areas up to 70,000 km2 in extent. More than 150 sea areas worldwide are now regularly starved of oxygen as a result of decomposition of algal blooms, fuelled particularly by nitrogen from agricultural runoff of fertilizers and sewage from large cities. Oceanic dead zones are typically associated with industrialized nations and usually lie off countries that subsidize their agriculture, encouraging farmers to increase productivity and use more fertilizer.
Passage
The law in many parts of the world increasingly restricts the discharge of agriculture slurry into watercourses. The simplest and often the most economically sound practice returns the material to the land as semisolid manure or as sprayed slurry. This dilutes its concentration in the environment to what might have occurred in a more primitive and sustainable type of agriculture and converts pollutant into fertilizer. Soil micro organisms decompose the organic components of sewage and slurry and most of the mineral nutrients become available to be absorbed again by the vegetation.
The excess input of nutrients, both nitrogen and phosphorus - based, from agriculture runoff (and human sewage) has caused many 'healthy' oligotrophic lakes (low nutrients concentrations, low plant productivity with abundant water weeds, and clear water) to change to eutrophic condition where high nutrients inputs lead to high phytoplankton productivity (sometimes dominated by bloom-forming toxic species). This makes the water turbid, eliminates large plants and, in the worst situation, leads to anoxia and fish kills, so called cultural eutrophication.
Thus, important ecosystem services are lost, including the provisioning service of wild-caught fish and the cultural services associated with recreation. The process of cultural eutrophication of lakes has been understood for some time. But only recently did scientists notice huge 'dead zones' in the oceans near river outlets, particularly those draining large catchment areas such as the Mississippi in North America and the Yangtze in China. The nutrients-enriched water flows through streams, rivers and lakes, and eventually to the estuary and ocean where the ecological impact may be huge, killing virtually all invertebrates and fish in areas up to 70,000 km2 in extent. More than 150 sea areas worldwide are now regularly starved of oxygen as a result of decomposition of algal blooms, fuelled particularly by nitrogen from agricultural runoff of fertilizers and sewage from large cities. Oceanic dead zones are typically associated with industrialized nations and usually lie off countries that subsidize their agriculture, encouraging farmers to increase productivity and use more fertilizer.
According to the passage, why should the discharge of agriculture slurry into watercourses be restricted?
1) Loosing nutrients in this way is not a good practice economically.
2) Watercourses do not contain the microorganisms that can decompose organic components of agriculture slurry.
3) The discharge may lead to the eutrophication of water bodies.
1) Loosing nutrients in this way is not a good practice economically.
2) Watercourses do not contain the microorganisms that can decompose organic components of agriculture slurry.
3) The discharge may lead to the eutrophication of water bodies.
Question 5
Direction: Read the following passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Yours answers to these items should be based on the passages only.
Passage
The law in many parts of the world increasingly restricts the discharge of agriculture slurry into watercourses. The simplest and often the most economically sound practice returns the material to the land as semisolid manure or as sprayed slurry. This dilutes its concentration in the environment to what might have occurred in a more primitive and sustainable type of agriculture and converts pollutant into fertilizer. Soil micro organisms decompose the organic components of sewage and slurry and most of the mineral nutrients become available to be absorbed again by the vegetation.
The excess input of nutrients, both nitrogen and phosphorus - based, from agriculture runoff (and human sewage) has caused many 'healthy' oligotrophic lakes (low nutrients concentrations, low plant productivity with abundant water weeds, and clear water) to change to eutrophic condition where high nutrients inputs lead to high phytoplankton productivity (sometimes dominated by bloom-forming toxic species). This makes the water turbid, eliminates large plants and, in the worst situation, leads to anoxia and fish kills, so called cultural eutrophication.
Thus, important ecosystem services are lost, including the provisioning service of wild-caught fish and the cultural services associated with recreation. The process of cultural eutrophication of lakes has been understood for some time. But only recently did scientists notice huge 'dead zones' in the oceans near river outlets, particularly those draining large catchment areas such as the Mississippi in North America and the Yangtze in China. The nutrients-enriched water flows through streams, rivers and lakes, and eventually to the estuary and ocean where the ecological impact may be huge, killing virtually all invertebrates and fish in areas up to 70,000 km2 in extent. More than 150 sea areas worldwide are now regularly starved of oxygen as a result of decomposition of algal blooms, fuelled particularly by nitrogen from agricultural runoff of fertilizers and sewage from large cities. Oceanic dead zones are typically associated with industrialized nations and usually lie off countries that subsidize their agriculture, encouraging farmers to increase productivity and use more fertilizer.
Passage
The law in many parts of the world increasingly restricts the discharge of agriculture slurry into watercourses. The simplest and often the most economically sound practice returns the material to the land as semisolid manure or as sprayed slurry. This dilutes its concentration in the environment to what might have occurred in a more primitive and sustainable type of agriculture and converts pollutant into fertilizer. Soil micro organisms decompose the organic components of sewage and slurry and most of the mineral nutrients become available to be absorbed again by the vegetation.
The excess input of nutrients, both nitrogen and phosphorus - based, from agriculture runoff (and human sewage) has caused many 'healthy' oligotrophic lakes (low nutrients concentrations, low plant productivity with abundant water weeds, and clear water) to change to eutrophic condition where high nutrients inputs lead to high phytoplankton productivity (sometimes dominated by bloom-forming toxic species). This makes the water turbid, eliminates large plants and, in the worst situation, leads to anoxia and fish kills, so called cultural eutrophication.
Thus, important ecosystem services are lost, including the provisioning service of wild-caught fish and the cultural services associated with recreation. The process of cultural eutrophication of lakes has been understood for some time. But only recently did scientists notice huge 'dead zones' in the oceans near river outlets, particularly those draining large catchment areas such as the Mississippi in North America and the Yangtze in China. The nutrients-enriched water flows through streams, rivers and lakes, and eventually to the estuary and ocean where the ecological impact may be huge, killing virtually all invertebrates and fish in areas up to 70,000 km2 in extent. More than 150 sea areas worldwide are now regularly starved of oxygen as a result of decomposition of algal blooms, fuelled particularly by nitrogen from agricultural runoff of fertilizers and sewage from large cities. Oceanic dead zones are typically associated with industrialized nations and usually lie off countries that subsidize their agriculture, encouraging farmers to increase productivity and use more fertilizer.
The passage refers to the conversion of "pollutant to fertilizer". What is pollutant and what is fertilizer in this context?
Question 6
Direction: Read the following passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Yours answers to these items should be based on the passages only.
Passage
The law in many parts of the world increasingly restricts the discharge of agriculture slurry into watercourses. The simplest and often the most economically sound practice returns the material to the land as semisolid manure or as sprayed slurry. This dilutes its concentration in the environment to what might have occurred in a more primitive and sustainable type of agriculture and converts pollutant into fertilizer. Soil micro organisms decompose the organic components of sewage and slurry and most of the mineral nutrients become available to be absorbed again by the vegetation.
The excess input of nutrients, both nitrogen and phosphorus - based, from agriculture runoff (and human sewage) has caused many 'healthy' oligotrophic lakes (low nutrients concentrations, low plant productivity with abundant water weeds, and clear water) to change to eutrophic condition where high nutrients inputs lead to high phytoplankton productivity (sometimes dominated by bloom-forming toxic species). This makes the water turbid, eliminates large plants and, in the worst situation, leads to anoxia and fish kills, so called cultural eutrophication.
Thus, important ecosystem services are lost, including the provisioning service of wild-caught fish and the cultural services associated with recreation. The process of cultural eutrophication of lakes has been understood for some time. But only recently did scientists notice huge 'dead zones' in the oceans near river outlets, particularly those draining large catchment areas such as the Mississippi in North America and the Yangtze in China. The nutrients-enriched water flows through streams, rivers and lakes, and eventually to the estuary and ocean where the ecological impact may be huge, killing virtually all invertebrates and fish in areas up to 70,000 km2 in extent. More than 150 sea areas worldwide are now regularly starved of oxygen as a result of decomposition of algal blooms, fuelled particularly by nitrogen from agricultural runoff of fertilizers and sewage from large cities. Oceanic dead zones are typically associated with industrialized nations and usually lie off countries that subsidize their agriculture, encouraging farmers to increase productivity and use more fertilizer.
Passage
The law in many parts of the world increasingly restricts the discharge of agriculture slurry into watercourses. The simplest and often the most economically sound practice returns the material to the land as semisolid manure or as sprayed slurry. This dilutes its concentration in the environment to what might have occurred in a more primitive and sustainable type of agriculture and converts pollutant into fertilizer. Soil micro organisms decompose the organic components of sewage and slurry and most of the mineral nutrients become available to be absorbed again by the vegetation.
The excess input of nutrients, both nitrogen and phosphorus - based, from agriculture runoff (and human sewage) has caused many 'healthy' oligotrophic lakes (low nutrients concentrations, low plant productivity with abundant water weeds, and clear water) to change to eutrophic condition where high nutrients inputs lead to high phytoplankton productivity (sometimes dominated by bloom-forming toxic species). This makes the water turbid, eliminates large plants and, in the worst situation, leads to anoxia and fish kills, so called cultural eutrophication.
Thus, important ecosystem services are lost, including the provisioning service of wild-caught fish and the cultural services associated with recreation. The process of cultural eutrophication of lakes has been understood for some time. But only recently did scientists notice huge 'dead zones' in the oceans near river outlets, particularly those draining large catchment areas such as the Mississippi in North America and the Yangtze in China. The nutrients-enriched water flows through streams, rivers and lakes, and eventually to the estuary and ocean where the ecological impact may be huge, killing virtually all invertebrates and fish in areas up to 70,000 km2 in extent. More than 150 sea areas worldwide are now regularly starved of oxygen as a result of decomposition of algal blooms, fuelled particularly by nitrogen from agricultural runoff of fertilizers and sewage from large cities. Oceanic dead zones are typically associated with industrialized nations and usually lie off countries that subsidize their agriculture, encouraging farmers to increase productivity and use more fertilizer.
According to the passage, what are the effects of indiscriminate use of fertilizers?
1) Addition of pollutants to the soil and water
2) Destruction of decomposer microorganisms in soil
3) Nutrients enrichment of water bodies
4) Creation of algal blooms
1) Addition of pollutants to the soil and water
2) Destruction of decomposer microorganisms in soil
3) Nutrients enrichment of water bodies
4) Creation of algal blooms
Question 7
Direction: Read the following passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Yours answers to these items should be based on the passages only.
Passage
The law in many parts of the world increasingly restricts the discharge of agriculture slurry into watercourses. The simplest and often the most economically sound practice returns the material to the land as semisolid manure or as sprayed slurry. This dilutes its concentration in the environment to what might have occurred in a more primitive and sustainable type of agriculture and converts pollutant into fertilizer. Soil micro organisms decompose the organic components of sewage and slurry and most of the mineral nutrients become available to be absorbed again by the vegetation.
The excess input of nutrients, both nitrogen and phosphorus - based, from agriculture runoff (and human sewage) has caused many 'healthy' oligotrophic lakes (low nutrients concentrations, low plant productivity with abundant water weeds, and clear water) to change to eutrophic condition where high nutrients inputs lead to high phytoplankton productivity (sometimes dominated by bloom-forming toxic species). This makes the water turbid, eliminates large plants and, in the worst situation, leads to anoxia and fish kills, so called cultural eutrophication.
Thus, important ecosystem services are lost, including the provisioning service of wild-caught fish and the cultural services associated with recreation. The process of cultural eutrophication of lakes has been understood for some time. But only recently did scientists notice huge 'dead zones' in the oceans near river outlets, particularly those draining large catchment areas such as the Mississippi in North America and the Yangtze in China. The nutrients-enriched water flows through streams, rivers and lakes, and eventually to the estuary and ocean where the ecological impact may be huge, killing virtually all invertebrates and fish in areas up to 70,000 km2 in extent. More than 150 sea areas worldwide are now regularly starved of oxygen as a result of decomposition of algal blooms, fuelled particularly by nitrogen from agricultural runoff of fertilizers and sewage from large cities. Oceanic dead zones are typically associated with industrialized nations and usually lie off countries that subsidize their agriculture, encouraging farmers to increase productivity and use more fertilizer.
Passage
The law in many parts of the world increasingly restricts the discharge of agriculture slurry into watercourses. The simplest and often the most economically sound practice returns the material to the land as semisolid manure or as sprayed slurry. This dilutes its concentration in the environment to what might have occurred in a more primitive and sustainable type of agriculture and converts pollutant into fertilizer. Soil micro organisms decompose the organic components of sewage and slurry and most of the mineral nutrients become available to be absorbed again by the vegetation.
The excess input of nutrients, both nitrogen and phosphorus - based, from agriculture runoff (and human sewage) has caused many 'healthy' oligotrophic lakes (low nutrients concentrations, low plant productivity with abundant water weeds, and clear water) to change to eutrophic condition where high nutrients inputs lead to high phytoplankton productivity (sometimes dominated by bloom-forming toxic species). This makes the water turbid, eliminates large plants and, in the worst situation, leads to anoxia and fish kills, so called cultural eutrophication.
Thus, important ecosystem services are lost, including the provisioning service of wild-caught fish and the cultural services associated with recreation. The process of cultural eutrophication of lakes has been understood for some time. But only recently did scientists notice huge 'dead zones' in the oceans near river outlets, particularly those draining large catchment areas such as the Mississippi in North America and the Yangtze in China. The nutrients-enriched water flows through streams, rivers and lakes, and eventually to the estuary and ocean where the ecological impact may be huge, killing virtually all invertebrates and fish in areas up to 70,000 km2 in extent. More than 150 sea areas worldwide are now regularly starved of oxygen as a result of decomposition of algal blooms, fuelled particularly by nitrogen from agricultural runoff of fertilizers and sewage from large cities. Oceanic dead zones are typically associated with industrialized nations and usually lie off countries that subsidize their agriculture, encouraging farmers to increase productivity and use more fertilizer.
What is/are the characteristics of a water body with cultural eutrophication?
1) Loss of ecosystem services
2) Loss of flora and fauna
3) Loss of mineral nutrients
1) Loss of ecosystem services
2) Loss of flora and fauna
3) Loss of mineral nutrients
Question 8
Direction: Read the following passages and answer the items that follow each passage. Yours answers to these items should be based on the passages only.
Passage
The law in many parts of the world increasingly restricts the discharge of agriculture slurry into watercourses. The simplest and often the most economically sound practice returns the material to the land as semisolid manure or as sprayed slurry. This dilutes its concentration in the environment to what might have occurred in a more primitive and sustainable type of agriculture and converts pollutant into fertilizer. Soil micro organisms decompose the organic components of sewage and slurry and most of the mineral nutrients become available to be absorbed again by the vegetation.
The excess input of nutrients, both nitrogen and phosphorus - based, from agriculture runoff (and human sewage) has caused many 'healthy' oligotrophic lakes (low nutrients concentrations, low plant productivity with abundant water weeds, and clear water) to change to eutrophic condition where high nutrients inputs lead to high phytoplankton productivity (sometimes dominated by bloom-forming toxic species). This makes the water turbid, eliminates large plants and, in the worst situation, leads to anoxia and fish kills, so called cultural eutrophication.
Thus, important ecosystem services are lost, including the provisioning service of wild-caught fish and the cultural services associated with recreation. The process of cultural eutrophication of lakes has been understood for some time. But only recently did scientists notice huge 'dead zones' in the oceans near river outlets, particularly those draining large catchment areas such as the Mississippi in North America and the Yangtze in China. The nutrients-enriched water flows through streams, rivers and lakes, and eventually to the estuary and ocean where the ecological impact may be huge, killing virtually all invertebrates and fish in areas up to 70,000 km2 in extent. More than 150 sea areas worldwide are now regularly starved of oxygen as a result of decomposition of algal blooms, fuelled particularly by nitrogen from agricultural runoff of fertilizers and sewage from large cities. Oceanic dead zones are typically associated with industrialized nations and usually lie off countries that subsidize their agriculture, encouraging farmers to increase productivity and use more fertilizer.
Passage
The law in many parts of the world increasingly restricts the discharge of agriculture slurry into watercourses. The simplest and often the most economically sound practice returns the material to the land as semisolid manure or as sprayed slurry. This dilutes its concentration in the environment to what might have occurred in a more primitive and sustainable type of agriculture and converts pollutant into fertilizer. Soil micro organisms decompose the organic components of sewage and slurry and most of the mineral nutrients become available to be absorbed again by the vegetation.
The excess input of nutrients, both nitrogen and phosphorus - based, from agriculture runoff (and human sewage) has caused many 'healthy' oligotrophic lakes (low nutrients concentrations, low plant productivity with abundant water weeds, and clear water) to change to eutrophic condition where high nutrients inputs lead to high phytoplankton productivity (sometimes dominated by bloom-forming toxic species). This makes the water turbid, eliminates large plants and, in the worst situation, leads to anoxia and fish kills, so called cultural eutrophication.
Thus, important ecosystem services are lost, including the provisioning service of wild-caught fish and the cultural services associated with recreation. The process of cultural eutrophication of lakes has been understood for some time. But only recently did scientists notice huge 'dead zones' in the oceans near river outlets, particularly those draining large catchment areas such as the Mississippi in North America and the Yangtze in China. The nutrients-enriched water flows through streams, rivers and lakes, and eventually to the estuary and ocean where the ecological impact may be huge, killing virtually all invertebrates and fish in areas up to 70,000 km2 in extent. More than 150 sea areas worldwide are now regularly starved of oxygen as a result of decomposition of algal blooms, fuelled particularly by nitrogen from agricultural runoff of fertilizers and sewage from large cities. Oceanic dead zones are typically associated with industrialized nations and usually lie off countries that subsidize their agriculture, encouraging farmers to increase productivity and use more fertilizer.
What is the central theme of this passage?
Question 9
Examine the following statements:
1) Either A and B are of the same age or A is older than B
2) Either C and D are of the same age or D is older than C
3) B is older than C
Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn from the above statements?
1) Either A and B are of the same age or A is older than B
2) Either C and D are of the same age or D is older than C
3) B is older than C
Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn from the above statements?
Question 10
Gita is prettier than Sita but not as pretty as Rita. Then,
Question 11
Read the passage given below and the two statements that follow (given on the basis of the passage):
Four men are waiting at Delhi airport for a Mumbai flight. Two are doctors and the other two ace businessmen. Two speak Gujarati and two speak Tamil. No two of the same profession speak the same language. Two are Muslims and two are Christians. No two of the same religion are of the same profession, nor do they speak the same language. The Tamil-speaking doctor is a Christian.
1) The Christian-businessman speaks Gujarati.
2) The Gujarati-speaking doctor is a Muslim.
Which of the above statements is/are correct conclusion/conclusions?
Four men are waiting at Delhi airport for a Mumbai flight. Two are doctors and the other two ace businessmen. Two speak Gujarati and two speak Tamil. No two of the same profession speak the same language. Two are Muslims and two are Christians. No two of the same religion are of the same profession, nor do they speak the same language. The Tamil-speaking doctor is a Christian.
1) The Christian-businessman speaks Gujarati.
2) The Gujarati-speaking doctor is a Muslim.
Which of the above statements is/are correct conclusion/conclusions?
Question 12
Examine the following statements:
1) I watch TV only if I am bored.
2) I am never bored when I have my brother's company.
3) Whenever I go to the theatre I take my brother along.
Which one of the following conclusions is valid in the context of the above statements?
1) I watch TV only if I am bored.
2) I am never bored when I have my brother's company.
3) Whenever I go to the theatre I take my brother along.
Which one of the following conclusions is valid in the context of the above statements?
Question 13
In five flats, one above the other, live five professionals. The professor has to go up to meet his IAS officer friend. The doctor is equally friendly to all, and has to go up as frequently as go down. The engineer has to go up to meet his MLA friend above whose flat lives the professor's friend. From the ground floor to the top floor, in what order do the five professionals live?
Question 14
Consider the following three statements:
1) Only students can participate in the race.
2) Some participants in the race are girls.
3) All girl participants in the race are invited for coaching.
Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn from the above statements?
1) Only students can participate in the race.
2) Some participants in the race are girls.
3) All girl participants in the race are invited for coaching.
Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn from the above statements?
Question 15
Consider the four age pyramids given below namely A, B, C and D representing four different countries.
Which one of them indicates the declining population?
Which one of them indicates the declining population?
Question 16
The following figure has four curves namely A, B, C and D. Study the figure and answer the item that follows.
Which curve indicates the exponential growth?
Which curve indicates the exponential growth?
Question 17
Consider the following distance - time graph. The graph shows three athletes A, Band C running side by side for a 30 km race.
With reference to the above graph consider the following statements:
1) The race was won by A
2) B was ahead of A up to 25 km mark.
3) C ran very slowly from the beginning.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
With reference to the above graph consider the following statements:
1) The race was won by A
2) B was ahead of A up to 25 km mark.
3) C ran very slowly from the beginning.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?
Question 18
Direction: Read the following passage and answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.
Passage
A moral act must be our own act; must spring from our own will. If we act mechanically, there is no moral content in our act. Such action would be moral, If we think it proper to act like a machine and do so. For, in doing so, we use our discrimination. We should bear in mind the distinction between acting mechanically and acting intentionally. It may be moral of a king to pardon a culprit. But the messenger carrying out the order of pardon plays only a mechanical part in the king's moral act. But if the messenger were to carry out the king's order considering it to be his duty, his action would be a moral one. How can a man understand morality who does not use his own intelligence and power of thought, but lets himself be swept along like a log of wood by a current? Sometimes a man defies convention and acts on his own with a view to absolute good.
Passage
A moral act must be our own act; must spring from our own will. If we act mechanically, there is no moral content in our act. Such action would be moral, If we think it proper to act like a machine and do so. For, in doing so, we use our discrimination. We should bear in mind the distinction between acting mechanically and acting intentionally. It may be moral of a king to pardon a culprit. But the messenger carrying out the order of pardon plays only a mechanical part in the king's moral act. But if the messenger were to carry out the king's order considering it to be his duty, his action would be a moral one. How can a man understand morality who does not use his own intelligence and power of thought, but lets himself be swept along like a log of wood by a current? Sometimes a man defies convention and acts on his own with a view to absolute good.
Which of the following statements best describe/describes the thought of the writer?
1) A moral act calls for using our discretion.
2) Man should react to a situation immediately.
3) Man must do his duty.
4) Man should be able to defy convention in order to be moral.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
1) A moral act calls for using our discretion.
2) Man should react to a situation immediately.
3) Man must do his duty.
4) Man should be able to defy convention in order to be moral.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Question 19
Direction: Read the following passage and answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.
Passage
A moral act must be our own act; must spring from our own will. If we act mechanically, there is no moral content in our act. Such action would be moral, If we think it proper to act like a machine and do so. For, in doing so, we use our discrimination. We should bear in mind the distinction between acting mechanically and acting intentionally. It may be moral of a king to pardon a culprit. But the messenger carrying out the order of pardon plays only a mechanical part in the king's moral act. But if the messenger were to carry out the king's order considering it to be his duty, his action would be a moral one. How can a man understand morality who does not use his own intelligence and power of thought, but lets himself be swept along like a log of wood by a current? Sometimes a man defies convention and acts on his own with a view to absolute good.
Passage
A moral act must be our own act; must spring from our own will. If we act mechanically, there is no moral content in our act. Such action would be moral, If we think it proper to act like a machine and do so. For, in doing so, we use our discrimination. We should bear in mind the distinction between acting mechanically and acting intentionally. It may be moral of a king to pardon a culprit. But the messenger carrying out the order of pardon plays only a mechanical part in the king's moral act. But if the messenger were to carry out the king's order considering it to be his duty, his action would be a moral one. How can a man understand morality who does not use his own intelligence and power of thought, but lets himself be swept along like a log of wood by a current? Sometimes a man defies convention and acts on his own with a view to absolute good.
Which of the following statements closely defines moral action, according to the writer ?
Question 20
Direction: Read the following passage and answer the items that follow. Your answers to these items should be based on the passage only.
Passage
A moral act must be our own act; must spring from our own will. If we act mechanically, there is no moral content in our act. Such action would be moral, If we think it proper to act like a machine and do so. For, in doing so, we use our discrimination. We should bear in mind the distinction between acting mechanically and acting intentionally. It may be moral of a king to pardon a culprit. But the messenger carrying out the order of pardon plays only a mechanical part in the king's moral act. But if the messenger were to carry out the king's order considering it to be his duty, his action would be a moral one. How can a man understand morality who does not use his own intelligence and power of thought, but lets himself be swept along like a log of wood by a current? Sometimes a man defies convention and acts on his own with a view to absolute good.
Passage
A moral act must be our own act; must spring from our own will. If we act mechanically, there is no moral content in our act. Such action would be moral, If we think it proper to act like a machine and do so. For, in doing so, we use our discrimination. We should bear in mind the distinction between acting mechanically and acting intentionally. It may be moral of a king to pardon a culprit. But the messenger carrying out the order of pardon plays only a mechanical part in the king's moral act. But if the messenger were to carry out the king's order considering it to be his duty, his action would be a moral one. How can a man understand morality who does not use his own intelligence and power of thought, but lets himself be swept along like a log of wood by a current? Sometimes a man defies convention and acts on his own with a view to absolute good.
The passage contains a statement "lets himself be swept along like a log of wood by a current." Among the following statements, which is/are nearest in meaning to this?
1) A person does not use his own reason.
2) He is susceptible to influence/pressure.
3) He cannot withstand difficulties/challenges.
4) He is like a log of wood.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
1) A person does not use his own reason.
2) He is susceptible to influence/pressure.
3) He cannot withstand difficulties/challenges.
4) He is like a log of wood.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
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