Q.2377·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyThe third great defect of our civilization is that it does not know what to do with its knowledge. Science has given us powers fit for the gods, yet we use them as small children. For example, we do not know how to manage our machines. Machines were made to be humanity's servants, yet man has grown so dependent on them that they are in a fair way to become his masters. Already most people spend most of their lives looking after and waiting upon machines. And the machines are very stern masters. They must be kept at the right temperature. And if they do not get their meals when they expect them, they grow sulky and refuse to work or burst with rage and blow up and spread ruin and destruction all around. So we have to wait upon them very attentively and do all that we can to keep them in a good temper. Already we find it difficult either to work or play without the machines, and time may come when they will rule us altogether, just as we rule the animals. And this brings me to the point at which I asked, “What do we do with all the time which the machines have saved for us, and the new energy they have given us?" On the whole, it must be admitted, we do very little. For the most part, we use our time and energy to make more and better machines which will give us still more time and still more energy, and what are we to do with them? The answer, I think, is that we should try to become more civilized. For the machines themselves, and the power which the machines have given us, are not civilization but aids to civilization. But you will remember that we agreed at the beginning that being civilized meant making and linking beautiful things, thinking freely and living rightly and maintaining justice equally among people. A person has a better chance today to do these things than he/she ever had before; he/she has more time, more energy, less to fear and less to fight against. If he/she will give his/her time and energy which his/her machines have won for him/her to make more beautiful things, to find out more and more about the universe, to remove the cause of quarrels between nations, to discover how to prevent poverty, then I think our civilization would undoubtedly be the greater as it would be more lasting than it has ever been. According to the passage, our civilization would be made greaterView question
Q.2378·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyWhich one of the following statements about Indian Maritime University (IMU) is not correct?View question
Q.2379·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyWhich of the following is the correct order of clouds in ascending order (lowest to highest) of height from surface? 1. Cirrocumulus 2. Nimbostratus 3. Cirrus 4. Altostratus Select the correct answer using the code given below:View question
Q.2380·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyWhich of the following statements about the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) are correct? 1. NCGG was set up by the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy. 2. The National Institute of Administrative Research (NIAR) has been rechristened and subsumed into NCGG. 3. NCGG is an apex-level autonomous body under the Ministry of Home Affairs. 4. The Chairperson of the Governing Body of the NCGG is the Cabinet Secretary to the Government of India. Select the correct answer using the code given below:View question
Q.2381·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyAny question pertaining to the disqualification of a member of the Lok Sabha on the ground of defection is decided by:View question
Q.2382·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyWhich of the following pairs is/are correctly matched? Plateau — Continent 1. Abyssinian : Africa 2. Patagonian : Australia 3. Anatolian : Asia 4. Iberian : North America Select the correct answer using the code given below:View question
Q.2384·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyWhich of the following pairs of Isolines and its properties are correctly matched? 1. Isonif : Snowfall 2. Isohel : Sunshine 3. Isohaline : Salinity 4. Isophyse : Cloudiness Select the correct answer using the code given below:View question
Q.2385·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyEach of the questions has underlined idioms/phrases. Each sentence is followed by four options. Choose the option that best describes the meaning of the underlined idiom/phrase. This car belonged to Ravi, but recently it changed hands .View question
Q.2386·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyIf p = a^2/(b - a)(c - a), q = b^2/(c - b)(a - b), r = c^2/(a - c)(b - c), then what is (p + q + r)^2 equal to ?View question
Q.2387·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyIn this section, each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are marked as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. This is followed by four options each suggesting a sequence of the sentences. Identify the most appropriate option. S1: The rise of East Asia in the late twentieth century may ultimately prove to be a more important world-historical event than the collapse of communism. S6: Translated into political terms, this means that industrial capitalism is always accompanied by liberal democracy. P: In the final two decades of the twentieth century, economic growth rates on the western rim of the Pacific Basin were between two and four times higher than those in the 'developed' economies of Europe and North America. Q: The widespread assumption has been that modernization means westernization. R: Certainly, the balance of the world’s economy shifted markedly from the West to the East in this period. S: However, the notion that there is distinctively East Asian political form is less familiar one. The correct sequence should beView question
Q.2388·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyWhich one among the following State capitals is closest to the Equator?View question
Q.2389·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyWhat is the largest 5-digit number, which leaves the remainder 7, when divided by 18 as well as by 11 ?View question
Q.2390·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyIt is given that 5 does not divide n - 1, n and n + 1, where n is a positive integer. Which one of the following is correct ?View question
Q.2391·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyTwelve percent of bananas bought by a fruit vendor got lost during transportation. On selling the remaining bananas, the vendor's overall profit turned out to be 4%. If the vendor had not lost any bananas and had sold them at the price of the remaining bananas, what would have been his profit percentage?View question
Q.2392·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyConsider the following statements: 1. If n is a natural number, then the number n(n^2+2)/3 is also a natural number. 2.If m is an odd integer, then the number m^4+4 m^2+11/16 is an integer. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?View question
Q.2393·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyWhen every even power of every odd integer (greater than 1) is divided by 8, what is the remainder ?View question
Q.2394·Miscellaneous·2023·EasyIf a, b and c are the sides of a right-angled triangle, where a > b > c, then what is the value of the expression (a + b + c) (a + b - c) (a - b + c) (a- b- c) ?View question