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What two countries have nearly 50% of global coal reserves?

A) Iran & USA B) USA & China
C) Russia & USA D) Brazil & Russia
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Russia & USA

Explanation:

United States and Russia have together almost 400 billion tones. Which represents nearly 50% of world's reserves of coal.

 

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Each item consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1 :The weak have no place here, in this life or in any other life. Weakness leads to slavery.
S6 :This is the great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery : weakness is death.
P :They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened.
Q : Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.
R : But they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them.
S :There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us.The correct sequence should be

A) P Q R S B) P R Q S
C) Q R S P D) Q S R P
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Q S R P

Explanation:
QSRP is the correct order in which sentences should be arranged.
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Q:

Which state recently passed a Bill to make Sanskrit as 2nd official language?

A) Himachal Pradesh B) Uttar Pradesh
C) Telangana D) Karnataka
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Himachal Pradesh

Explanation:

Himachal Pradesh government had passed a Bill to make Sanskrit as its 2nd official language.

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Q:

NMCG means

A) National Mission for Clean Ganga B) National Money Collection Group
C) National Mutual funds for College Gang D) None of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) National Mission for Clean Ganga

Explanation:

NMCG means National Mission for Clean Ganga.

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Q:

Which is an example of a physical change?

A) Dissolving sugar in water B) Breaking glass
C) Melting of ice D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) All of the above

Explanation:

In all the above given options, there is no chemical change or reactions takes place only the shape or physical state is changed.

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Q:

The  optical  phenomenon  that  is  primarily responsible  for  the  observation  of  rainbow on a rainy day is 

A) diffraction B) interference
C) dispersion D) reflection
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) dispersion

Explanation:

A rainbow is a natural spectrum appearing in the sky after a rain shower. It is caused by dispersion of sunlight by tiny water droplets, present in the atmosphere. A rainbow is always formed in a direction opposite to that of the Sun. The water droplets act like small prisms. They refract and disperse the incident sunlight, then reflect it internally, and finally refract it again when it comes out of the raindrops.

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Q:

Improve the bracketed part of the sentence.

Taj Mahal is (a worth seeing monument) in Agra.

A) a monument to see its worth B) a monument worth seeing
C) one of worth seeing monuments D) No improvement
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) a monument worth seeing

Explanation:
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Q:

Plants developing in dry conditions are

A) mesophytes B) xerophytes
C) hydrophytes D) lithophytes
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) xerophytes

Explanation:

Plants developing in dry conditions are called as xerophytes.

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