Dear Readers,
As SSC GD & MTS notification is out and candidates have started their preparation for this exam. Mahendras also has started special quizzes for this examination. This series of quizzes are based on the latest pattern of the SSC GD & MTS examination. Regular practice of the questions included in the quizzes will boost up your preparations and it will be very helpful in scoring good marks in the examination.
1-5. In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. First read the passage over and try to understand what it is about. Then fill in the blanks with the help of the alternatives given. Mark your answer.
For centuries, Kannauj has been India’s perfume capital. The fragrances and flavours produced by this industry do not go (A) any chemical process and chemicals are not used, the flowers are not really organic. Insecticides, pesticides and fertilisers are used in the flowers farms from where the petals come. But the slurry that would (B) out of bio gas plant is an excellent bio-fertiliser. Thus the itra units can sell the slurry to farmers to make the flowers organic. Organic itra would (C) international market value of Kannauj itra.
Kannauj (D) industry is struggling due to higher (E) cost and lowering demand due to increased use of synthetic flavours and fragrances or lowered export. Biogas would bring down fuels cost drastically and increase profits.
1 Choose the correct option for (A)
A. by
B. into
C. through
D. along
2 Choose the correct option for (B)
A. come
B. comes
C. came
D. evaporate
3 Choose the correct option for (C)
A. enhanced
B. increase
C. expands
D. demolish
4 Choose the correct option for (D)
A. sugar
B. plant
C. bio-fertilizer
D. perfume
5 Choose the correct option for (E)
A. revenue
B. unbearable
C. production
D. manufacture
6-10. Read the following passage care fully and answer the given questions.
After losing the battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte settled in exile at a tiny, remote, volcanic island St Helena in the Atlantic. Except a few of his trusted servants no one else was allowed to live there. One of his servants administered small dosages of arsenic to Napolean till he died in 1821. This fact would have remained buried but for the fact that some of the servants retained tufts of his hair as mementos and their later generations sold them at a premium to buyers around the globe. One such buyer got the hair analysed in 1950, and it was found that it contained a fatal dose of arsenic.
Arsenic is a slow and deadly poison and has been used since times immemorial. It is unfortunate that once again the issue of arsenic has become a hot topic and the villain is none but the nature itself. Gorundwater in West Bengal is already in grip of arsenic toxin. Millions in West Bengal are suffering from it.
It was during the last four years that scholars began a systematic study of the Gomti sediments to find out their contents. During one such project, upstream of the confluence of the Gomti with the Ganga in Ghazipur, they found that the sediments contained alarmingly high content of arsenic.
The permissible limit of arsenic in drinking water is only 0.05 mg./litre while the sediment samples collected by the researchers during peak summers yielded 5.76 mg./litre arsenic. It may be also he noted that this is even higher than the arsenic carried by the Ganga and the Brahmaputra rivers.
Their first reaction was, "How on the earth arsenic has made sudden appearance in the Gomti water and sediments?"
What they found is alarming and shocking. Important towns like Lucknow, Sultanpur and Jaunpur are situated on the banks of the Gomti.
The municipal waste and the sewage generated by these towns are dumped in the river, which carries lots of bacteria.
These bacteria thrive during the peak summer and beginning of the monsoon. The silt carried by the Gomti is generated by the erosion and denudation of the granites in the Himalayas and through the river's catchment in higher reaches it reaches the main river.
This silt contains mica, which in turn has arsenic locked up safely in the grains. The hungry fecal bacteria need food and they gobble the silt and in the process release arsenic.
6 After losing the battle of Waterloo, where did Napolean Bonaparte settled?
A. Atlantic
B. Antartica
C. Alaska
D. Algeria
7 What has been kept as a momento in the memory of Napolean?
A. His medicines
B. His hair
C. His nail
D. His Shoes
8 Which of the following statements is true in context to the above passage?
A. Arsenic is a fast and rapid poison and has been used since times immemorial
B. The permissible limit of arsenic in drinking water is only 5.76 mg / litre
C. Towns like Sultanpur, Lucknow and Unnau are situated on the banks of river Gomti
D. The silt contains mica which in turn has arsenic locked up safely in the grains
9 Scholars are doing systematic study on which of the following rivers?
A. River Ganga
B. River Gomti
C. River Brahmaputra
D. River Yamuna
10 Choose the word which is most SIMILAR in meaning to the word printed in bold as used in the passage.
Fecal
A. Dirty
B. Poisonous
C. Harmful
D. Sterile
Answers:-
Q.1 (C)
Q.2 (A)
Q.3 (B)
Q.4 (D)
Q.5 (C)
Q.6 (A)
Q.7 (B)
Q.8 (D)
Q.9 (B)
Q.10 (A)
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