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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. Reporters and city officials gathered at a Chicago railroad station one afternoon in 1953. The person they were meeting was the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner. A few minutes after the train came to a stop, a giant of a man - six feet four inches - with bushy hair and a large moustache stepped out from the train. Cameras flashed. City officials approached him with hands outstretched. Various people began telling him how honoured they were to meet him. The man politely thanked them and then, looking over their heads, asked if he could be excused for a moment. He quickly walked through the crowd until he reached the side of an elderly black woman who was struggling with two large suitcases. He picked up the bags with a smile, escorted the woman to a bus. After helping her aboard, he wished her a safe journey. As he returned to the greeting party he apologized, "Sorry to have kept you waiting." Not many whites would have done what he did. The man was Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the famous missionary doctor who had spent his life helping the poor in Africa. In response to Dr. Schweitzer's action, one member of the reception committee said with great admiration to the reporter standing next to him, "That's the first time I ever saw a sermon walking." Dr. Albert preferred to let his actions _____ .


  • Options
  • A. speak louder than his words
  • B. be admired
  • C. be advertised
  • D. be written about

  • Correct Answer
  • speak louder than his words 

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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

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

    • Options
    • 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

    • Options
    • 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


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

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

    • Options
    • 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

    • Options
    • 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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