Section A (Current Affairs)
1. Which of the following is a space mission by ISRO?(a) SROSS-C2 (b) Quik Seat
(c) SAMPEX (d) Stardust
2. Elzie Crisler Segar is best known as the creator of the cartoon character of _______.
(a) Garfield (b) Popeye
(c) Scooby Doo (d) Blondie
3. Which book among the following is not written by Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam?
(a) Wings of Fire
(b) India in the New Millennium
(c) India My Dream
(d) Envisioning an Empowered Nation
4. Indian Rupee received a unique symbol ‘
’ which blends the scripts of _____. (a) Devanagari and Palli
(b) Sanskrit and Roman
(c) Devanagari and Roman
(d) None of the above
5. Which of the following facts is not true about Mahatma Gandhi?
(a) He was chosen for the Nobel peace Prize in 1948, but because of his unfortunate assassination, the Peace Prize was not awarded that year.
(b) Time magazine named him the “Man of the Year” in 1930.
(c) In 1999, he was declared the “Person of the Century” by the Time magazine, and the runner-up was Albert Einstein.
(d) He was shoved out a train in 1893 in Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa, because he refused to move to a third class coach while holding a first class ticket.
Section B (English)
Direction for questions 6-7: Identify antonyms for the following words.
6. Risible:
(a) serious (b) amusing
(c) ludicrous (d) ridiculous
7. Tenebrous:
(a) dark (b) truthful
(c) bright (d) quarrelsome
Direction for questions 8 and 9: A partially completed paragraph is placed below, followed by fillers a, b, c. From options A, B, C and D, identify the right combination and order of fillers a, b or that will best complete the paragraph.
8. In cultivating team spirit, one should not forget the importance of discipline — It is the duty of all the members of the team to observe discipline in its proper perspective.
a. A proper team spirit can seldom be based on discipline.
b. It is a well known fact that team spirit and discipline can never go hand in hand
c. Discipline in its right perspective would mean sacrificing self to some extent.
(a) a and b only (b) b and c only
(c) Either a or b only (d) c only
9. Forests are gifts of nature _______. Yet, with the spread of civilisation, man has not only spurned the forests, but has been ruthlessly destroying them.
a. It is on historical record that the vast Sahara desert of today once used to be full of thick forests.
b. A large part of humanity still lives deep inside forests, particularly in the tropical regions of the earth.
c. Human evolution itself has taken place in the forests.
(a) Only a and b (b) Only c and a
(c) Only c and b (d) c and a or b
Direction for question 10 : Given below are the first and last parts of a sentence, and the remaining sentence is broken into four parts P, Q, R and S. From A, B, C and D, choose the arrangement of these parts that forms a complete, meaningful sentence.
10. A number of measures ———————— of the Municipal Corporations.
P. the financial conditions
Q. for mobilisation of resources
R. in order to improve
S. are being taken by the State Governments
(a) PSQR (b) QRSP
(c) RSPQ (d) SQRP
Answers
1 (a); 2 (b); 3 (b); 4 (c); 5 (c); 6 (a); 7 (c); 8 (d); 9 (c); 10 (d)
