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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. Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at secondhand from books or other artificial sources. The knowledge of that which is before us, or about us, which appeals to our experience, passions, and pursuits, to the bosoms and businesses of men, is not learning. Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know. He is the most learned man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation. The learned man prides himself in the knowledge of names, and dates, not of men or things. He thinks and cares nothing about his nextdoor neighbours, but he is deeply read in the tribes and castes of the Hindoos and Calmuc Tartars. He can hardly find his way into the next street, though he is acquainted with the exact dimensions of Constantinople and Peking. He does not know whether his oldest acquaintance is a knave or a fool, but he can pronounce a pompous lecture on all the principal characters in history. He cannot tell whether an object is black or white, round or square, and yet he is a professed master of the optics and the rules of perspective. the knowledge related to the businesses of men


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  • A. knows about all the principal characters in history
  • B. sees not with the eyes of others
  • C. is acquainted with the streets of Constantinople and Peking
  • D. knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation.

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  • knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation. 

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    • 1. Who invented Bicycle?

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    • A. Leo H Baekeland
    • B. Karl Benz
    • C. Evangelista Torricelli
    • D. Kirkpatrick Macmillan
    • Discuss
    • 2. The gas present in the stratosphere which filters out some of the sun's ultraviolet light and provides an effective shield against radiation damage to living things is

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    • A. helium
    • B. ozone
    • C. oxygen
    • D. methane
    • Discuss
    • 3. Which state Government of India has instituted the Samman Award?

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    • A. Uttar Pradesh
    • B. Himachal Pradesh
    • C. Madhya Pradesh
    • D. Andhra Pradesh
    • Discuss
    • 4. Natural radioactivity was discovered by

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    • A. Marie Curie
    • B. Ernest Rutherfor
    • C. Henri Becquerel
    • D. Enrico Fermi
    • Discuss
    • 5. Plants growing on sand are called as

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    • A. chasmophytes
    • B. oxylophytes
    • C. lithophytes
    • D. psammophytes
    • Discuss
    • 6. What is a NIC?

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    • A. Netware Intranet Controller
    • B. No Internet Connection
    • C. Network Interface Card
    • D. Network Interference Control
    • Discuss
    • 7. In which of the following industries is mica as a raw material?

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    • A. Cement
    • B. Glass and Pottery
    • C. Iron and Steel
    • D. Electrical
    • Discuss
    • 8. This English inventor is known as the 'Father of Computing.'

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    • A. Philo Farnsworth
    • B. J. Presper Eckert
    • C. John Mauchly
    • D. Charles Babbage
    • Discuss
    • 9. The mass number of an atom is equal to

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    • A. the number of protons
    • B. the number of protons and electrons
    • C. the number of nucleons
    • D. the number of neutrons
    • Discuss
    • 10. The organic reaction represented by equation CH3 - CH = O + H2NOH gives CH3 - CH - NH + H2O is an example of

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    • A. an addition reaction
    • B. a condensation reaction
    • C. an oxidation reaction
    • D. an elimination reaction
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