Q.12025·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyEach item in this question consists of a word in capital letters followed by four words or phrases as (a), (b), (c) and (d). Select the word or phrase which is most nearly the same in meaning as the original word and mark the correct response as (a), (b), (c) or (d) as the case may be, in your Answer Sheet. JEALOUSView question
Q.12026·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyEach item in this question consists of a word in capital letters followed by four words or phrases as (a), (b), (c) and (d). Select the word or phrase which is most nearly the same in meaning as the original word and mark the correct response as (a), (b), (c) or (d) as the case may be, in your Answer Sheet. TRIPView question
Q.12027·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyPipe A can fill a tank in 3 hours. But there is a leakage also, due to which it takes 3.5 hours for the tank to be filled. How much time will the leakage take in emptying the tank if the tank is filled initially?View question
Q.12028·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyA train takes 10 seconds to cross a pole and 20 seconds to cross a platform of length 200 m. What is the length of the train?View question
Q.12029·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyS₁ : There are, I think, several factors that contribute to wisdom. S₆ : You have not time to consider the effect which your discoveries or inventions may have outside the field of medicine. P: This has become more difficult than it used to be owing to the extent and complexity of the specialized knowledge required of various kinds of technicians. Q: Of these I should put first a sense of proportion: the capacity to take account of all the important factors in a problem and to attach to each its due weight. R: The work is difficult and is likely to absorb the whole of your intellectual energy. S: Suppose, for example, that you are engaged in research in scientific medicine. The proper sequence should be:View question
Q.12030·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyS₁ : There were no finger prints anywhere. S₆ : These conclusions made the detectives think that it was a fake theft. P: First of all it was impossible even for a child to enter through the hole in the roof. Q: When the investigators tried to reconstruct the crime, they came up against facts. R: Moreover, when the detectives tried to push a silver vase, it was found to be double the size of the hole. S: Again, the size of the hole was examined by the experts who said that nothing had been passed through it. The proper sequence should be:View question
Q.12031·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyA, B and C can do a piece of work individually in 8, 12 and 15 days respectively. A and B start working together but A quits after working for 2 days. After this, C joins and works till completion of the work. In how many days will the work be completed?View question
Q.12032·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyS₁ : If you want to film a scene in slow motion you run the camera twice as fast as usual, which sounds ridiculous but isn’t. S₆ : On the screen, everything appears at half the speed at which the camera recorded it when it was filmed. P: If you are filming in slow motion, however, the camera runs at twice the normal speed, yet, in spite of this, the projector which shows the film will be run at the normal speed, and this means that the projector will show the film at half the speed at which it was photographed. Q: This is because the camera which took the pictures and the projector which shows them run at the same speed. R: When a film camera is running at normal speed, it takes twenty-four pictures a second. S: When the film is run through the film-projector in the camera twenty-four pictures a second appear on the screen. The proper sequence should be:View question
Q.12033·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyS₁ : Great quantities of animal oil come from whales. S₆ : A few other creatures also yield oil. P: It produces a great quantity of oil which can be made into food for human consumption. Q: These enormous creatures of the sea are the largest remaining animals in the world. R: When the whale is killed, the blubber is stripped off and boiled down. S: To protect the whales from the cold of the Arctic seas, nature has provided it with a thick covering of fat called blubber. The proper sequence should be:View question
Q.12034·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyS₁ : The distance between theatre and reality has stretched so far that when we come across a truly contemporary play, it is a cause for rejoicing. S₆ : But the question is, have we forgotten his legacy in modern India? P: It searches our collective psyche like an unrelenting laser beam. Q: Most importantly, the play questions whether religion and politics can fuse together in modern India. R: Gandhi had both the spiritual and political dimensions that we so lack today. S: Prasanna’s ‘Gandhiji’ staged recently by the National School of Drama is one such play. The proper sequence should be:View question
Q.12035·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyThe ratio of ages of A and B is 2 : 5 and the ratio of ages of B and C is 3 : 4. What is the ratio of ages of A, B and C?View question
Q.12036·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyS₁ : We who live in the present day world are proud to call ourselves civilized. S₆ : In fact science has added to our worries. P: But let us search our hearts and ask ourselves, ‘Has science solved our problem?’ Q: Is it because we live and dress better than our forefathers? R: Frankly speaking, the answer is ‘No’. S: Of course, we have the advantages of the inventions of science which our ancestors had never known. The proper sequence should be:View question
Q.12037·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyThose responsible for teaching young people have resorted to a variety of means to make their pupils learn. The earliest of these was the threat of punishment. This meant that the pupil who was slow, careless or inattentive risked either physical chastisement or the loss of some expected privilege. Learning was thus associated with fear. At a later period, pupils were encouraged to learn in the hope of some kind of reward. This often took the form of marks awarded for work done and sometimes of prizes given at the end of the year to the best scholar. Such a system appealed to the competitive spirit, but was just as depressing as the older system for the slow child. In the nineteenth century sprang up a new type of teacher, convinced that learning was worthwhile for its own sake and that the young pupil’s principal stimulus should neither be anxiety to avoid a penalty nor ambition to win a reward, but sheer desire to learn. Interest, direct or indirect, became the keyword of instruction. The educational system which caused fear in the pupil’s mind was based on:View question
Q.12038·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyThose responsible for teaching young people have resorted to a variety of means to make their pupils learn. The earliest of these was the threat of punishment. This meant that the pupil who was slow, careless or inattentive risked either physical chastisement or the loss of some expected privilege. Learning was thus associated with fear. At a later period, pupils were encouraged to learn in the hope of some kind of reward. This often took the form of marks awarded for work done and sometimes of prizes given at the end of the year to the best scholar. Such a system appealed to the competitive spirit, but was just as depressing as the older system for the slow child. In the nineteenth century sprang up a new type of teacher, convinced that learning was worthwhile for its own sake and that the young pupil’s principal stimulus should neither be anxiety to avoid a penalty nor ambition to win a reward, but sheer desire to learn. Interest, direct or indirect, became the keyword of instruction. The system based on rewards satisfied all except:View question
Q.12039·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyThose responsible for teaching young people have resorted to a variety of means to make their pupils learn. The earliest of these was the threat of punishment. This meant that the pupil who was slow, careless or inattentive risked either physical chastisement or the loss of some expected privilege. Learning was thus associated with fear. At a later period, pupils were encouraged to learn in the hope of some kind of reward. This often took the form of marks awarded for work done and sometimes of prizes given at the end of the year to the best scholar. Such a system appealed to the competitive spirit, but was just as depressing as the older system for the slow child. In the nineteenth century sprang up a new type of teacher, convinced that learning was worthwhile for its own sake and that the young pupil’s principal stimulus should neither be anxiety to avoid a penalty nor ambition to win a reward, but sheer desire to learn. Interest, direct or indirect, became the keyword of instruction. The system which appealed to the competitive spirit in the pupils was largely based on:View question
Q.12040·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyOn a surface which is free from obstacles, such as a clear road or a path, only two or three species of snakes can hope to catch up with a human being, even if they are foolish to try. A snake seems to move very fast but its movements are deceptive. In spite of the swift, wave-like motions of its body, the snake crawls along the ground at not more than the speed of man's walk. It may, however, have an advantage inside a jungle, where the progress of a man is obstructed by thorny bushes. But in such places, the footsteps of a man are usually more than enough to warn snakes to keep away. Although they have no ears of the usual kind, they can feel slight vibrations of the ground through their bodies, and thus get an early warning of danger. The snake has an advantage over men inside a jungle, because there:View question
Q.12041·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyOn a surface which is free from obstacles, such as a clear road or a path, only two or three species of snakes can hope to catch up with a human being, even if they are foolish to try. A snake seems to move very fast but its movements are deceptive. In spite of the swift, wave-like motions of its body, the snake crawls along the ground at not more than the speed of man's walk. It may, however, have an advantage inside a jungle, where the progress of a man is obstructed by thorny bushes. But in such places, the footsteps of a man are usually more than enough to warn snakes to keep away. Although they have no ears of the usual kind, they can feel slight vibrations of the ground through their bodies, and thus get an early warning of danger. What helps the snakes to receive advance warning is their sensitivity to:View question
Q.12042·Miscellaneous·2014·EasyThis rule of always trying to do things as well as one can do them has an important bearing upon the problem of ambition. No man or woman should be without ambition, which is the inspiration of activity. But if one allows ambition to drive one to attempt things which are beyond one’s own personal capacity, then unhappiness will result. If one imagines that one can do everything better than other people, then envy and jealousy, those twin monsters, will come to sadden one’s days. But if one concentrates one’s attention upon developing one’s own special capacities, the things one is best at, then one does not worry over much if other people are more successful. Which one of the following alternatives brings out the meaning of ‘to have a bearing upon’ clearly?View question