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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 given passage implies that


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  • A. knowledge of the learned is exclusive to them
  • B. a learned man cannot deliver lectures
  • C. a learned man is not interested in Calmuc Tartars
  • D. a learned man is not aware of the optics and the rules of perspective

  • Correct Answer
  • knowledge of the learned is exclusive to them 

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    • 1. Headquarters of the World Health Organisation is located at

    • Options
    • A. Geneva
    • B. Washington DC
    • C. New York
    • D. Rome
    • Discuss
    • 2. Let a thin capillary tube be replaced with another tube of insufficient length then, we find water

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    • A. will overflow
    • B. will not rise
    • C. depressed
    • D. change its meniscus
    • Discuss
    • 3. Mirage is due to

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    • A. unequal heating of different parts of the atmosphere
    • B. magnetic disturbances in the atmosphere
    • C. depletion of ozone layer in the atmosphere
    • D. equal heating of different parts of the atmosphere
    • Discuss
    • 4. Plants are killed in winter by frost

    • Options
    • A. because of desiccation and mechanical damage to the tissues
    • B. because no photosynthesis takes place at such low temperature
    • C. because respiration ceases at such low temperature
    • D. because there is no transpiration
    • Discuss
    • 5. The subatomic particles arriving from outer space having high energy are called

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    • A. protons
    • B. electrons
    • C. cosmic rays
    • D. None of the above
    • Discuss
    • 6. The members of Lok Sabha hold office for a term of


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    • A. 4 years
    • B. 5 years
    • C. 6 years
    • D. 3 years
    • Discuss
    • 7. 'Bagh', a village in Gwalior is famous for

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    • A. Sculptures
    • B. Architecture
    • C. Cave Painting
    • D. All of the above
    • Discuss
    • 8. Gopal Krishna Gokhale

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    • A. started as a maths teacher and rose to the position of the principal of Ferguson College, Pune
    • B. founded the servants of India Society
    • C. served as President of the Indian National Congress in 1905
    • D. All of the above
    • Discuss
    • 9. The pennines (Europe), Appalachians (America) and the Aravallis (India) are examples of

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    • A. old mountains
    • B. young mountains
    • C. fold mountains
    • D. block mountains
    • Discuss
    • 10. The India's highest annual rainfall is reported at

    • Options
    • A. Namchi, Sikkim
    • B. Churu, Rajasthan
    • C. Mawsynram, Meghalaya
    • D. Chamba, Himachal Pradesh
    • Discuss


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