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Which one of the following statements concerning the natural vegetation of India is not correct?

A) Sal is found in moist deciduous forests. B) Casuarina is largely found along the coastal region of Tamil Nadu.
C) Deodar is a coniferous species of tree. D) Shola forests are found mainlyon the upper reaches of Himalaya.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Shola forests are found mainlyon the upper reaches of Himalaya.

Explanation:

The temperate forests are called Sholas in the Nilgiris, Anaimalai and Palani hills.Moist deciduous forests: Major Species: Teak, sal, shisham, hurra, mahua, amla, semul, kusum, and sandalwood etc. are the main species of these forests.

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1 2009
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Food handlers can contaminate food when they

Answer

1) If they use the same cutting board/counter to cut raw chicken, and other foods with out sanitizing in between. 


 


2) If they have a cold, flu, or pink eye and are handling food, coughing without covering their mouth, then washing their hands.


 


3) If they don't properly wash their vegetables.


 


4) Not storing foods at proper temperatures.


 


And so many other reasons for Food handlers can contaminate food.

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1 2009
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Atom bomb discovered by

A) J. Robert Oppenheimer B) Lyndon B. Johnson
C) Felix Adler D) All of the above
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) J. Robert Oppenheimer

Explanation:

Julius Robert Oppenheimer was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons. The first atomic bomb was successfully detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico.

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2 2009
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Choose the word that best defines the given phrase‘The identification of a disease by its symptoms’

A) Prescription B) Prognosis
C) Diagnosis D) Biopsy
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Diagnosis

Explanation:
Prescription is an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment.
Prognosis is a forecast of the likely outcome of a situation.
Diagnosis is the identification of the nature of an illness or other problem by examination of the symptoms.
Biopsy is an examination of tissue removed from a living body to discover the presence, cause, or extent of a disease.
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0 2009
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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

 


When I think of my family's history on the land. I experience a pang of regret. Unlike much of the arid West, where the land has gone virtually unchanged for centuries, my place of origin, western Kansas, has been torn up by agriculture. The flat plains, excellent soil, and sparse but just adequate rainfall permitted farming; therefore farming prevailed, and a good 90% of the original sod prairie is gone. The consequence, in human terms, is that our relationship to our place has always felt primarily mercantile. We used the land and denied, or held at bay, its effect on us. Yet from my earliest childhood, when the most of the Kansas prairie was still intact, I 've known that the land also had a romantic quality. I've felt moved by the expanse of it , enthralled by size. I take pride in my identity as a plains daughter.

 

What factor changed the entire landscape of Kansas?

 

A) wind B) heat
C) agriculture D) flooding
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) agriculture

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1 2009
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A sentence has been given in Direct/Indirect Speech. Out of the four given alternatives, select the one which best expresses the same sentence in Indirect/Direct Speech.

Rohan said , "I am going"

A) Rohan had said he is gone. B) Rohan is going.
C) Rohan said that he is gone.   D) Rohan said that he was going.
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Rohan said that he was going.

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0 2009
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Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.


The human eye is a complex part of the body that is used for seeing. Eyes enable people to perform daily tasks and to learn about the world that surrounds them. Sight, or vision, is a rapidly occurring process that involves continuous interaction between the eye, the nervous system, and the brain. When someone looks at an object, what he really sees is the light reflected from the object. This reflected light passes through the lens and falls on the retina of the eye. Here the light induces nerve impulses that travel through the optic nerve to the brain and then over other nerves to muscles and glands.


The eye is similar to a television camera. Both the eye and the television camera convert light energy to electrical energy. The eye converts light to nerve impulses that are interpreted by the brain as the sense perception called sight. A television camera converts light to electronic signals that are broadcast and transformed into light images in a television receiver. It is wonderful that human eyes blink an average of once every six seconds. This washes the eye with the salty secretion from the tear or lachrymal glands. Each tear gland is about the size and shape of an almond. These glands are situated behind the upper eyelid at the outer corner of the eye. After passing over the eye, the liquid from the gland is drained into the nose through the tear duct at the inner corner of the eye.

 

The average rate of blinking of an eye is

A) Six times every second B) Once every six seconds
C) Six times every six seconds D) Once every second
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Once every six seconds

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

The first working steam­ powered vehicle was designed and most likely built by Ferdinand Verbies, a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China around 1672. It was a 65 cm long scale­ model toy for the Chinese Emperor, that was unable to carry a driver or a passenger. It is not known if Verbiest's model was ever built. Nicolas- Joseph Cugnot is widely credited with building the first full­ scale, self ­propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile in about 1769; he also created a steam­ powered tricycle. He constructed two steam tractors for the French Army, one of which is preserved in the French National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts. His inventions were however handicapped by problems of water supply and maintaining steam pressure. In 1801, Richard Trevithick built and demonstrated his Puffing Devil road locomotive, believed by many to be the first demonstration of a steam ­powered road vehicle. It was unable to maintain sufficient steam pressure for long periods. Sentiment against steam ­powered road vehicles led to the Locomotive Acts of 1865. In 1807 Nicephore Niepce and his brother Claude probably created the world's first internal combustion engine which they called Pyreolophore.

The problem with Trevithick's Puffing Devil was:

A) Its incapability to carry a driver or a passenger B) With the water supply
C) Its inability to maintain steam pressure D) Its combustion engine
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Its inability to maintain steam pressure

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