Comprehension passages and grammar - Online Test

Q1. Modern warfare has changed from large scale clashes of armies to suppression of civilian populations. Chemical agents that do their work silently appear to be suited to such warfare; and regretfully, there exist people in military establishments who think that chemical agents are useful tools for their cause. Which of the following statements best sums up the meaning of the above passage:
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.


Q2. Indian currency notes show the denomination indicated in at least seventeen languages. If this is not an indication of the nation‟s diversity, nothing else is. Which of the following can be logically inferred from the above sentences?
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.


Q3. Modern warfare has changed from large scale clashes of armies to suppression of civilian populations. Chemical agents that do their work silently appear to be suited to such warfare; and regretfully, there exist people in military establishments who think that chemical agents are useful tools for their cause. Which of the following statements best sums up the meaning of the above passage:
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.


Q4. The ways in which this game can be played __________ potentially infinite.
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.


Q5. “If you are looking for a history of India, or for an account of the rise and fall of the British Raj, or for the reason of the cleaving of the subcontinent into two mutually antagonistic parts and the effects this mutilation will have in the respective sections, and ultimately on Asia, you will not find it in these pages; for though I have spent a lifetime in the country, I lived too near the seat of events, and was too intimately associated with the actors, to get the perspective needed for the impartial recording of these matters.” Which of the following closest in meaning to 'cleaving'?
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.


Q6. The policeman asked the victim of a theft, “What did you
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:

The context of the sentence is asking a person who has been deprived of something because of a theft. The word to be used to fill the blank is ‘lose’ which means to be deprived of something. ‘Loose’ means something that is not fitted. ‘Louse’ is the singular form of the word ‘lice’ that is a parasite that lives in the skin of mammals and birds. ‘Loss’ is a noun that means the process of losing someone or something. Eg: He suffered tremendous loss in his business.

Q7. Which of the following statements are TRUE with respect to heat and work? 
(i) They are boundary phenomena 
(ii) They are exact differentials 
(iii) They are path functions
Answer : Option B
Explaination / Solution:

Since, Heat and work are the path function and these are not the property of system. Hence exact different of Heat and work will not be zero. So, Heat and Work are the inexact differential. Also, heat and work are the energy in transit or boundary phenomena.

Q8. Given below are two statements followed by two conclusions. Assuming these statements to be true, decide which one logically follows. 
Statement: 
I. All film stars are playback singers. 
II. All film directors are film stars. 
Conclusions: 
I. All film directors are playback singers. 
II. Some film stars are film directors
Answer : Option D
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.


Q9. Lamenting the gradual sidelining of the arts in school curricula, a group of prominent artists wrote to the Chief Minister last year, asking him to allocate more funds to support arts education in schools. However, no such increase has been announced in this year‟s Budget. The artists expressed their deep anguish at their request not being approved, but many of them remain optimistic about funding in the future.
Which of the statement(s) below is/are logically valid and can be inferred from the above statements? 
i. The artists expected funding for the arts to increase this year. 
ii. The Chief Minister was receptive to the idea of increasing funding for the arts. 
iii. The Chief Minister is a prominent artist. 
iv. Schools are giving less importance to arts education nowadays.
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.


Q10. Modern warfare has changed from large scale clashes of armies to suppression of civilian populations. Chemical agents that do their work silently appear to be suited to such warfare; and regretfully, there exist people in military establishments who think that chemical agents are useful tools for their cause. Which of the following statements best sums up the meaning of the above passage:
Answer : Option C
Explaination / Solution:
No Explaination.