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Who discovered Oxygen?

A) Carl Scheele B) Hooke
C) Heisenberg D) Williams
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Carl Scheele

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Where was paper invented?

A) China B) India
C) Zambia D) Germany
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) China

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Who was the first to measure the circumference of earth?

A) Erechtheus B) Aegeus
C) Eratosthenes D) Apheidas
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Eratosthenes

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A stretch of sea water, partly or fully separated by a narrow strip from the main sea is called

A) Bay B) Isthmus
C) Lagoon D) Strait
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Lagoon

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Read each sentence to find out whether there is any error in any underlined part and indicate your response in the Answer Sheet against the corresponding letter i.e., (a) or (b) or (c). If you find no error, your response should be indicated as (d).

A) Nandita asked me B) if I was working
C) hardly these days D) No error
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) hardly these days

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The error is in third part. The adjective hard has two different adverbs, and they express opposite meanings. The adverb hard is used to modify a verb and means that the action is being done very intensely. The adverb hardly is used to modify a verb and means that the action is not being done very intensely. So there the correct usage will be ‘working hard’.

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Lowering of value of currency relative to a foreign reference currency is called _________.

A) Devaluation B) Revaluation
C) Down valuation D) Negative valuation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Devaluation

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

 

A brain and nervous system that are poorly developed or insufficiently nourished means low grade of ______________ in our mental processes, just as a poorly constructed or wrongly adjusted motor means loss of power in applying the electric current to its work. We will, __________, look upon the mind and the brain as counterparts of ___________ other, each performing activities which correspond to activities in the other, ________ inextricably bound together at least so far as this life is concerned, and each getting its _______________ by its union with the other. This view will lend interest to a brief study of the brain and nervous system.

 

nourished means low grade of ______________ in our mental processes

 

A) efficiently B) efficiencies
C) efficiency D) efficient
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) efficiency

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

 

All of us have admired some writers, ______________ their work over that of others for their writing style as much as for the content of their work. ____________ writer who has, for more than half a century, _______________ for his searing honesty is George Orwell. He is recondite, but he is never ________________. He says it as it is and yet says it as it has not been said ____________.

 

All of us have admired some writers, ______________ their work

 

A) preferring B) preferred
C) having preferred D) had preferred
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) preferred

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