Geometric Placement Paper:
Question 1
In each of the following questions, there is a certain relationship between two given words on one side of : : and one word is given on another side of : :while another word is to be found from the given alternatives, having the same relation with this word as the words of the given pair bear. Choose the correct alternative. Oxygen : Burn : : Carbon dioxide : ?
A. Isolate
B. Foam
C. Extinguish
D. Explode
Ans. C
Question 2
Grain : Stock : : Stick : ?
A. Heap
B. Bundle
C. Collection
D. String
Ans. B
Question 3
Planet : Orbit : : Projectile : ?
A. Trajectory
B. Track
C. Milky way
D. Path
Ans. A
Question 4
Genuine : Authentic : : Mirage : ?
A. Image
B. Transpiration
C. Reflection
D. Illusion
Ans. D
Question 5
Illiteracy : Education : : Flood : ?
A. Rain
B. Bridge
C. Dam
D. River
Ans. C
Question 6
Each of the following sentences has been divided into four parts. There is an error in one of the parts. Point out the part which has an error . A) I was astonished by the highly exciting tricks / B) the acrobat displayed on the rope / C) at great risk of like /D) at such an advanced age.
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Ans. A
Question 7
A) We, who are fortunate enough / B) to have lived in the present century, / C) hardly realize how our ancestors suffered / D) from the belief in the existence of evil spirits.
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Ans. B
Question 8
A) Vivek is / B) one year junior, / C) than Madav / D) in our office
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Ans. C
Question 9
A) The detective says that/ B) there is no chance for, / C) finding the person,/ D) who wrote these letters.
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Ans. B
Question 10
A) We bought five dozens pencils from a shop,/ B) but on opening in the packet at home / C) we found five pencils short, / D) but the shopkeeper did not accept the responsibility of the shortage.
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
Ans. A
Question 11
In each of the following questions, a paragraph or a sentence has been broken up into different parts. The parts have been scrambled and numbered as given below. Choose the correct order of these parts from the given alternatives
A. The potential exchanges between the officials of IBBF and the Maharashtra Body-Building Association has all the trappings of a drama we are accustomed to.
B. In the case of sportspersons, there is room for some sympathy, but the apathy of the administrators, which has even led to sanctions from international bodies, is unpardonable.
C. A case in the point is the hefty penalty of US $10,000 slapped on the Indian Body-Building Federation for not fulfilling its commitment for holding the Asian Championships in Mumbai in October.
D. It is a matter of deep regret and concern that the sports administrators often cause more harm to the image of the country than sportsmen and sportswomen do through their dismal performances.
A. CABD
B. DBCA
C. DABC
D. CDBA
Ans. B
Question 12
A. Its cargo consisted of 38 sacks of spices and Magellan himself had been hacked to pieces on the beach of Mactan in the Phillipines
B. So contrary to popular beliefe it was the crew of the Victoria who were the first men to have sailed around the globe
C. In spetembre 1522 Victoria , the sole survivor of the Armada, limped into the spanish port San Lucar , manned by a skeleton crew of 15, so weak they could not talk
D. In septembre 1519 the Armada de Molucca of five ships and 250 sailors has set out from San lucar de Barrameda under the command of Fernando de Magellan E. It was to sail to the spice islands of the Malayan Archipelago where they were to excahnge an assortemnt of bells , mirrors , and scissors for cinnamon and cloves.
A. DECAB
B. AEDCB
C. CDEAB
D. DEABC
Ans. A
Question 13
A. The situations in which violence occurs and the nature of that violence tends to be clearly defined at least in theory, as in the proverbial Irishman's question: ËœIs this a private fight or can anyone join in?'
B. So the actual risk to outsiders, though no doubt higher than our societies, is calculable.
C. Probably the only uncontrolled applications of force are those of social superiors to social inferiors and even here there are probably some rules.
D. However binding the obligation to kill, members of feuding families engaged in mutual massacre will be genuinely appalled if by some mischance a bystander or outsider is killed.
A. DABC
B. ACDB
C. CBAD
D. DBAC
Ans. A
Question 14
A. What came out was very large garland made out of currency notes.
B. The unsuspecting governor opened the box in full view of the gathering
C. When the RBI governor came to inaugrate the new printing press , the local unit of the BJP handed him a gift wrapped box
D. There was a twist - the notes were all as tattered as notes could get
A. DACB
B. CABD
C. CBAD
D. DCAB
Ans. C
Question 15
A. But in the industrial era destroying the enemy's productive capacity means bombing the factories which are located in the cities.
B. So in the agrarian era, if you need to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, what you want to do is bum his fields, or if you're really vicious, salt them.
C. Now in the information era, destroying the enemy's productive capacity means destroying the information infrastructure. D. How do you do battle with your enemy? E. The idea is to destroy the enemy's productive capacity, and depending upon the economic foundation, that productive capacity is different in each case. F. With regard to defence, the purpose of the military is to defend the nation and be prepared to do battle with its enemy.
A. FDEBAC
B. FCABED
C. DEBACF
D. DFEBAC
Ans. A
Question 16
The passage given below is followed by a set of five questions. Choose the most appropriate answer to each question.
To summarize the Classic Maya collapse, we can tentatively identify five strands. I acknowledge, however, that Maya archaeologists still disagree vigorously among themselves”in part, because the different strands evidently varied in importance among different parts of the Maya realm; because detailed archaeological studies are available for only some Maya sites; and because it remains puzzling why most of the Maya heartland remained nearly empty of population and failed to recover after the collapse and after re-growth of forests.
With those caveats, it appears to me that one strand consisted of population growth outstripping available resources: a dilemma similar to the one foreseen by Thomas Malthus in 1798 and being played out today in Rwanda , Haiti , and elsewhere. As the archaeologist David Webster succinctly puts it, "Too many farmers grew too many crops on too much of the landscape. Compounding that mismatch between population and resources was the second strand: the effects of deforestation and hillside erosion, which caused a decrease in the amount of useable farmland at a time when more rather than less farmland was needed, and possibly exacerbated by an anthropogenic drought resulting from deforestation, by soil nutrient depletion and other soil problems, and by the struggle to prevent bracken ferns from overrunning the fields.
The third strand consisted of increased fighting, as more and more people fought over fewer resources. Maya warfare, already endemic, peaked just before the collapse. That is not surprising when one reflects that at least 5,000,000 people, perhaps many more, were crammed into an area smaller than the state of Colorado (104,000 square miles). That warfare would have decreased further the amount of land available for agriculture, by creating no-man's lands between principalities where it was now unsafe to farm. Bringing matters to a head was the strand of climate change. The drought at the time of the Classic collapse was not the first drought that the Maya had lived through, but it was the most severe. At the time of previous droughts, there were still uninhabited parts of the Maya landscape, and people at a site affected by drought could save themselves by moving to another site. However, by the time of the Classic collapse the landscape was now full, there was no useful unoccupied land in the vicinity on which to begin anew, and the whole population could not be accommodated in the few areas that continued to have reliable water supplies.
As our fifth strand, we have to wonder why the kings and nobles failed to recognize and solve these seemingly obvious problems undermining their society. Their attention was evidently focused on their short-term concerns of enriching themselves, waging wars, erecting monuments, competing with each other, and extracting enough food from the peasants to support all those activities. Like most leaders throughout human history, the Maya kings and nobles did not heed long-term problems, in so far as they perceived them.
Finally, while we still have some other past societies to consider in this book before we switch our attention to the modern world, we must already be struck by some parallels between the Maya and the past societies. As on Easter Island, Mangareva, and among the Anasazi, Maya environmental and population problems led to increasing warfare and civil strife. As on Easter Island and at Chaco Canyon, Maya peak population numbers were followed swiftly by political and social collapse. Paralleling the eventual extension of agriculture from Easter Island's coastal lowlands to its uplands, and from the Mimbres floodplain to the hills, Copan's inhabitants also expanded from the floodplain to the more fragile hill slopes, leaving them with a larger population to feed when the agricultural boom in the hills went bust. Like Easter Island chiefs erecting ever larger statues, eventually crowned by pukao, and like Anasazi elite treating themselves to necklaces of 2,000 turquoise beads, Maya kings sought to outdo each other with more and more impressive temples, covered with thicker and thicker plaster” reminiscent in turn of the extravagant conspicuous consumption by modern American CEOs. The passivity of Easter chiefs and Maya kings in the face of the real big threats to their societies completes our list of disquieting parallels.
According to the passage, which of the following best represents the factor that has been cited by the author in the context of Rwanda and Haiti?
A. Various ethnic groups competing for land and other resources.
B. Various ethnic groups competing for limited land resources
C. Various ethnic groups fighting wit each other.
D. Various ethnic groups competing for political power.
Ans. B
Question 17
By an anthropogenic drought, the author means
A. A drought caused by lack of rains.
B. A drought caused due to deforestation.
C. A drought caused by failure to prevent bracken ferns from overrunning the fields.
D. A drought caused by actions of human beings.
Ans. D
Question 18
According to the passage, the drought at the time of Maya collapse had a different impact compared to the droughts earlier because
A. The Maya kings continue to be extravagant when common people were suffering
B. It happened at the time of collapse of leadership among Mayas.
C. It happened when the Maya population had occupied all available land suited for agriculture
D. It was followed by internecine warfare among Mayans
Ans. C
Question 19
According to the author, why is it difficult to explain the reasons for Maya collapse?
A. Copan inhabitants destroyed all records of that period
B. The constant deforestation and hillside erosion have wiped out all traces of the Maya kingdom.
C. Archaeological sites of Mayas do not provide any consistent evidence.
D. It has not been possible to ascertain which of the factors best explains as to why the Maya civilization collapsed.
Ans. D
Question 20
Which factor has not been cited as one of the factors causing the collapse of Maya society?
A. Environmental degradation due to excess population
B. Social collapse due to excess population.
C. Increased warfare among Maya people
D. Climate change.
Ans. C
Question 21
Pick out from the words, given below each sentence, the word which would complete the sentence correctly and meaningfully. Unhygienic circumstances..................health problems.
A. give rise to
B. bring in to existence
C. call for
D. replace
Ans. A
Question 22
If she were chosen for the job, she..........a good secretary.
A. will make
B. can make
C. would make
D. would have made
Ans. C
Question 23
Every government servant is finding it necessary to supplement his............... by doing something extra.
A. earnings
B. profits
C. remuneration
D. income
Ans. D
Question 24
Didn't you go to the restaurant yesterday...........?
A. No I did'nt
B. Yes I didn't
C. No, I did
D. will, yes.
Ans. A
Question 25
The Chernobil tragedy had taken place about four years.............
A. past
B. ago
C. before
D. since
Ans. B
Question 26
In each of the following questions, out of the given alternatives, choose the one which best expresses the meaning of the given word. Abolish
A. end
B. minimize
C. prevent
D. denounce
Ans. A
Question 27
make up
A. invent
B. prepare
C. replace
D. complete
Ans. D
Question 28
dispatched
A. taken by force
B. sent
C. ordered to go
D. expelled
Ans. B
Question 29
ARDUOUS
A. Short
B. Difficult
C. Easy
D. Expensive
Ans. B
Question 30
ABODE
A. Family
B. Farm
C. Car
D. Home
Ans. D
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