General Knowledge Questions

Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.

In the world today we make health an end in itself. We have forgotten that health really means to enable a person to do his work and do it well. A lot of modern medicine, and this includes many patients as well as many physicians, pay very little attention to health but very much attention to those who imagine they are ill. Our great concern with health is shown by the medical columns in newspapers, the health articles in popular magazines and the popularity of television programmes and all those books on medicine. We talk about health all the time. Yet for the most part the only result is more people with imaginary illness. A healthy man should not be wasting time talking about health : he should be using health for work.

The passage suggests that

In the following items, each passage consists of six sentences. The first and the sixth sentence are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been removed and jumbled up. These are labeled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find out the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly on the Answer Sheet.

S1 :At the age of eighteen Gandhi went to college, but remained for only part of the year.
S6:This was against his religion, and most of his relatives were against his going.
P:Soonafter this, he was advised to go to England to study tobe a lawyer.
Q:Studies did not interest him and he did not do well.
R:It was difficult for him to leave India and go to a foreign land where he would have to eat and drink with foreigners.
S:This would not be easy.

The proper sequence should be 

Which  of  the  following  statements  relating to  the  powers  of  the  President  of  India is/are correct?

1.The executive power of the Union shall be vested in the President.

2.The executive power shall be exercised by the  President only  through  officers subordinate to him.

3.The  supreme  command  of  the  defence forces of  the  Union  shall  be  vested  in the President.

Select  the  correct  answer  using  the  code given below.

In the following question, out of the given four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the Idiom/Phrase.

Break the ice

The atoms of Germanium, Arsenic, Selenium and Bromine contain ...... shells.

In the given question, an idiom/phrase highlighted in bold is given in a sentence. Choose the most suitable meaning of the idiom/phrase.

I heard it on the grapevine that the vacancies are going to be increased this year for many posts.

In the following question, a word has been written in four different ways out of which only one is correctly spelt. Select the correctly spelt word.

Which biome is also called Mediterranean?