NIT ACTUAL-2009

MATHEMATICS 8. If A  cos 2   sin 4 , then for all values of 

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(a) 1  A  2 (b)  A 1
11 1 1
1. If   tan  tan1  tan1  16
1 2 1  (2)(3) 1  (3)( 4)
3 13 3
1 (c) A (d)  A 1
1
........  tan then tan  is equal to
4 16 4
1  n(n  1)
9. A man has 5 coins, two of which are double-headed,
one is double-tailed and two are normal. He shuts his
n n 1 n n 1
(a) (b) (c) (d) eyes, picks a coin at random, and tosses it. The prob-
n 1 n2 n2 n2 ability that the lower face of the coin is a head is
2. If the distance of any point (x, y) from the origin is (a) 1/5 (b) 2/5 (c) 3/5 (d) 4/5
defined as d ( x, y )  max(| x |, | y |), then the locus of 10. How many different patts in the xy-plane are there from
the point ( x, y ) where d ( x, y )  1 is (1, 3) to (5, 6), if a path proceeds one step at a time by
going either one step to the right (R) ir ibe step upward
(a) a square of area 1 sq. unit (U) ?
(b) a circle of radius 1 (a) 35 (b) 40 (c) 45 (d) None
(c) a triangle 11. Water runs into a conical tank of radius 5 feet and height
(d) a square of area 4 sq. units 10 feet, at a constant rate of 2 feet 3/ minute. How fast is
3. The number of solutions for the water level rising when the water is 6 feet deep ?
 2 2
tan 1 x ( x  1)  sin1 x 2  x  1  is (a) feet / minute (b) feet / minute
2 9 9
(a) zero (b) one (c) two (d) infinite 2 
(c) feet / minute (d) feet / minute
9 9
4. Let ABC be an isosceles triangle with AB = BC. If base
BC is parallel to x-axis and m1, m2 are slopes of medi- 12. The vector B  3iˆ  4kˆ is to be written as the sum of a
ans drawns through the angular points B and C, then
vector B 1 parallel to A  iˆ  ˆj and a vector B 2 perpen-
(a) m1 m2  1 (b) m1  m2  0
dicular to A , then B 1 is
(c) m1 m2  2
3 ˆ ˆ 2 ˆ ˆ
(a) (i  j ) (b) (i  j )
(d) (m1  m2 )2  2m1  m2  0 2 3

5. If a  b  c  0 , then the system of equations 1 ˆ ˆ

(c) (i  j ) (d) None of these
( b  c ) ( y  z )  ax  b  c 2
13. A and B are independent witnesses in a case. The prob-
(c  a ) ( z  x )  by  c  a ability that A speaks the truth is ‘x’ and that B speaks the
(a  b ) ( x  y )  cz  a  b has truth is ‘y’. If A and B agree on a centain statement, the
probability that the statement is true is
(a) a unique solution
xy xy
(b) no solution (a) xy  (1  x ) (1  y ) (b) (1  x ) (1  y )
(c) infinite number of solutions
(d) finitely many solutions (1  x ) (1  y ) (1  x ) (1  y )
(c) xy  (1  x ) (1  y ) (d)
xy
 x sin x
6. The value of 0 1  cos2 x dx is 14. There are 10 points in a plane. Out of these 6 are col-
linear. The number of triangles formed by joining these
points is
2 2 2 2
(a) (b) (c) (d) (a) 100 (b) 120 (c) 150 (d) None
3 4 6 2

1 1 
7. If tan 2 x  tan 3 x  , then x is
4
(a) 1/6 (b) 1/3 (c) 1/2 (d) 1/4

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 24. If A is 3 × 3 matrix with det (A) = 3, then det (adj A) is
x y x y 1
15. The straight lines  k and   , (a) 3 (b) 9 (c) 27 (d) 6
a b a b k
k  0 meet on 25. If x < –1 and 2 |x 1|  2 x  | 2 x  1 | 1 , then the value of x
(a) a parabola (b) an ellipse is
(c) a hyperbola (d) a circle (a) –2 (b) 2 (c) 0 (d) 1
16. The total number of relations that exist from the set A 26. If sin1 x  cos 1(1  x )  sin1(  x ) , then x satisfies the
with m elements in to the set A × A is equation
(a) m2 (b) m3 (c) m (d) None (a) 2 x 2  x  2  0 (b) 2 x 2  3 x  0
17. Let A and B be two events such that
1 1 1 (c) 2 x 2  x  1  0 (d) none of these
P ( A  B )  , P ( A  B )  and P ( A )  . Then events
6 4 4
A and B are 27. If a , b , c are non-coplanar unit vectors such that
(a) independent but not equally likely b c
a  (b  c )  , then the angle between a and b
(b) mutually exclusive and independent 2
(c) equally likely and mutually exclusive is
(d) equally likely but not independent  3 
(a) (b) (c) (d) 
 1 2 4 4 2
18. If A  3 4 , then, I  A  A2  .....  equals to
 
28. The equation sin4 x  cos 4 x  sin 2 x    0 is solvable
1 0  1 2  for
(a) 0 1 (b)  3  4
   
1 1
 1 1  1 1 (a)   (b) 3    1
2 2
 2  3  4 3 
 1    3 1
(c) 
 0 
(d)  1
0 (c)   (d) 1    1
 2   2  2 2
29. A and B throw a die in succession to win a bet with A
19. A square with side ‘a’ is revolved about its centre through starting first. Whoever throws ‘1’ first wins an amount of
45°. What is the area common to both the squares ? Rs. 110. What are the respective expectations of A and
a2 B?
(a) 2( 2  1)a 2 (b) ( 2  1)
2 (a) Rs. 70 and Rs. 40 (b) Rs. 60 and Rs. 50
(c) ( 3  1)a 2 (d) ( 5  1)a 2 (c) Rs. 75 and Rs. 35 (d) None of these
30. The probability that a man who is 85 yrs. old will die
20. If P  {( 4n  3n  1) / n  N } and Q  {(9n  9 ) / n  N } , before attaining the age of 90 is 1/3. A1 , A2 , A3 and A4
then P  Q is equal to are four are four persons who are 85 yrs. old. The
(a) N (b) P (c) Q (d) none probability that A1 will die before attaining the age of 90
and will be the first to die is
21. Let f ( x )  [ x 2  3] where [ ] denotes the greatest integer
function. Then, the number of points in the interval (1, 2) 65 13 65 13
(a) (b) (c) (d)
where the function is discontinuous is 81 81 324 108
(a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 6 (d) none 31. Find the value of k in the equation x 3  6 x 2  kx  64  0 ,
22. If and are unit vectors, then if it is known that the roots of the equation are in
a,b c
geometric progression.
| a  b |2  | b  c |2  | c  a |2 does not exceed (a) 24 (b) 16 (c) –16 (d) –24

(a) 9 (b) 4 (c) 8 (d) 6 32. If (1 x  2x 2 )6  1 a1x  a2 x 2  ........  a12 x12 , then the
1 value of a2  a4  a6  .......  a12 is
23. If 2 x 4  x 3  11x 2  x  2  0 , then the values of x 
x (a) 1024 (b) 64 (c) 32 (d) 31
are
33. The smaller of the areas bound by y  2  x and
5 5 2 1 1
(a) – 3 , (b)  , 3 (c) , (d) ,  5 x 2  y 2  4 is
2 2 3 3 3
(a)   1 (b)   2 (c) 2  1 (d) 2  2

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34. The number of distinct integral values of ‘a’ satisfying 43. If log x y  100 and log2 x  10 , then the value of y is
the equation 22a  3 ( 2a  2 )  25  0 is
(a) 210 (b) 2100 (c) 21000 (d) 210000
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 2 (d) 3
44. Let Tn denote the number of triangles which can be
35. A1 , A2 , A3 and A4 are subsets of a set U contraining
formed by using the vertices of a regular polygon of n
75 elements with the following properties : Each subset sides. If Tn 1  Tn  21 then n equals
contains 28 elements; the intersection of any two of the
(a) 5 (b) 7 (c) 6 (d) 4
subsets contains 12 elements; the intersection of any
45. The number of words that can be formed by using the
three of the subsets contains 5 elements; the
letters of the word MATHEMATICS that start as well as
intersection of all four subsets contains 1 element. The
end with T is
number of elements belonging to none of the four
(a) 80720 (b) 90720 (c) 20860 (d) 37528
subsets is
(a) 15 (b) 17 (c) 16 (d) 18 
46. If A  B  , then (1  tan A) (1  tan B) is equal to
36. From 50 students taking examination in Mathematics, 4
Physics and Chemistry, 37 passed Mathematics, 24 (a) 2 (b) 1 (c) 0 (d) 3
Physics and 43 Chemistry. At most 19 passed
47. If two towers of heights h1 and h 2 subtend angles 60°
Mathematics and Physics, at most 29 Mathematics and
Chemistry and at most 20 Physics and Chemistry. The and 30° respectively at the mid point of the line joining
largest possible number that could have passed all their feet, then h1 : h 2 is
three examinations is (a) 1 : 2 (b) 1 : 3 (c) 2 : 1 (d) 3 : 1
(a) 10 (b) 12 (c) 9 (d) none
 
37. If y  f (x ) is an odd and differentiable function defined sin x if x 
 2
f ( x)  
on (  ,  ) such that f ' (3 )   2 , then f ' ( 3 ) equals to 48. What is the value of a for which 
 a x if x 
(a) 4 (b) 2 (c) –2 (d) 0  2
38. An open-top box is to be made out of a piece of cardboard is continuous ?
measuring 6m  6m by cutting off equal squares from  2
(a)  (b) (c) (d) 0
the corners and turning up the sides. The height of the 2 
box for maximum volume is 49. If the real number x when added to its inverse gives the
(a) 2 m (b) 2.5m (c) 1.2m (d) none minimum value of the sum, then the value of x is equal
39. An anti aircraft gun can take a maximum of four shots at to
an enemy plane moving away from it. The probabilities (a) –2 (b) 2 (c) 1 (d) –1
of hitting the plane at first, second, third and fourth shot 50. A set contains ( 2n  1) elements. If the number of
are 0.4, 0.3, 0.2 and 0.1 respectively. The probability that
subsets which contain at most n elements is 4096,
the gun hits the plane then is
then the value of n is
(a) 0.6972 (b) 0.6978
(a) 28 (b) 21 (c) 15 (d) 6
(c) 0.6976 (d) 0.6974
40. A random variable X has the distribution law as given
below :
ANALYTICAL ABILITY AND
x 1 2 3 LOGICAL REASONING
P (X = x) 0.3 0.4 0.3
The variance of the distribution is 51. Bala had three sons. He had some chocolates which
(a) 0.4 (b) 0.6 (c) 2 (d) None he distributed among them. To his eldest son, he gave
3 chocolates more than half the number of chocolates
41. If the straight line ax  by  c  0 always passes through with him. To his second eldest son he gave 4
(1, –2) then a , b , c are in chocolates more than one-third of the remainining
number of chocolates with him. To his youngest son he
(a) A . P. (b) H.P. gave 4 chocolates more than one-fourth of the
(c) G .P. (d) None of these remaining number of chocolates with him. He was left
42. The area of the parallelogram whose diagonals are with 11 chocolates. How many chocolates did he ini-
tially have ?
a  3i  j  2k and b  i  3 j  4k is
(a) 180 (b) 78
(a) 10 3 (b) 5 3 (c) 144 (d) 120

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52. Find the value of ‘x’, if 61. What will come in place of the question mark (?) in the
following series ?
 1  1  1 
 log 4   log 16   log 256 ........  2 12 22 69 272 1365 ?
 2 x  2 x  2 x 
(a) 8196 (b) 8195 (c) 6830 (d) 8184
(a) 2 (b) 1/2 (c) 4 (d) 1/4
62. Divide Rs. 1074 (in whole Rs.having incremental
amounts) into a number of bags so that I can ask for
53. Find the unit digit of (13687) 3265 any amount between Re. 1 and Rs. 1074, and you can
(a) 1 (b) 3 (c) 7 (d) 9 give me the proper amount by selecting a certain
54. How many pairs of letters are there in the word number of these bags without opening them. What is
‘PRISON’, each of which has as many letters between the minimum number of bags you wil require ?
its two letters in the word as there are between them in (a) 12 (b) 10 (c) 9 (d) 11
the English alphabet ?
63. Which number will be there in the place of question
(a) Two (b) One (c) Four (d) Three mark (?) in the following figure ?
55. Twelve villages in a district are divided into 3 zones with
4 villages per each zone. The telephone department of
the district intends to connect the villages with telephone
lines such that every two villages in the same zone are
connected with three direct lines and every two villages
belonging to different zones are connected with two
direct lines. How many direct lines are required ?
(a) 210 (b) 96 (c) 54 (d) 150
56. Sum of all three digit numbers (no digit being zero) hav-
ing the property that all digits are perfect squares is
(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 8
(a) 3108 (b) 6216 (c) 13986 (d) None
57. A teacher gave a student the task of adding ‘N’ natural 64. The remainder when x  1!  2 !  3 !  ......  100 ! is di-
numbers starting from 1. After a while, the student re- vided by 240 is
ported his result as 700. The teacherreplied that his (a) 153 (b) 33 (c) 73 (d) 187
result was wrong. The student realized that he had added
one number twice by mistake. Find the sum of the digits 65. Using the digits 1, 5, 2, 8 all possible four digit numbers
of the number which the student had added twice. are formed and the sum of all such numbers is be-
tween
(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) 8
(a) 10000 & 20000 (b) 20000 & 50000
58. Computer A takes 3, minutes to process an input while
computer B takes 5 minutes. If computers A, B and C (c) 50000 & 100000 (d) 100000 & 150000
can process an average of 14 inputs in one hour, how 66. The sum of the numbers from 1 to 100, which are not
many minutes does computer C alone take to process divisible by 3 and 5, is
one input ? (a) 2946 (b) 2732 (c) 2632 (d) 2317
(a) 10 (b) 4 (c) 6 (d) None 67. You are in the land of logic, where there are 3 types of
rabbits. Blue rabbits always tell the truth, green rabbits
59. If A + B = C + D, B + D = 2A, D + E > A + B, C + D > A + E, sometimes tell the truth and red rabbits never tell the
then which of the following is true ? truth. Assume you cannot distinguish colours. A rabbit
says to you “I always lie”. What colour of rabbit is speak-
(a) D > B > E > A > C (b) A > B > D > E > C ing to you.
(c) A > D > B > E > C (d) D > A > B > E > C (a) Blue (b) Red
60. Reena visited her High School friend, Natasha after their (c) Green (d) Cannot be concluded
25th school reunion. “What a nice pair of children you
have, are they twins?”, Reena asked. 68. All the letters of the word ‘INDIA are permuted in all
possible ways and the words so formed are written as
“No my sister is older than I”, said Natasha’s son Rahul. in dictionary then the 58th word in the list is
“The square of my age plus the cube of her age is 7148”.
(A) NIIDA (R) INIDA (C) NIDIA (D) NIDAI
“The square of my age plus the cube of his age is 5274”,
said Preeti, Natasha’s daughter. Directions for question 69 : Choose the ordered pair of state-
ments (P to S) where the first statement implies the
How old were they ? second, and two statements are logically consistent with the
(a) Preeti 23 Rahul 14 (b) Preeti 18 Rahul 16 main statement.
(c) Preeti 21 Rahul 19 (d) Preeti 19 Rahul 17 69. Each time Sachin is the captain India loses
(P) Sachin is the captain (Q) India did not win
(R) Sachin is not the captain (S) India won

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 (a) PS (b) SR (c) SP (d) RP (a) 50 (b) 49 (c) 48 (d) 3
70. If all the 6’s are replaced by 9’s, then the algebraic sum 78. Which is the 20th question Rajita answers ?
of all the numbers from 1 to 100 (both inclusive), varies (a) 50 (b) 48 (c) 47 (d) 44
by
79. If A1  {3}, A2  {5, 7, 9}, A3  {11, 13, 15, 17, 19},
(a) 330 (b) 333 (c) 219 (c) 279
71. Recentily, while in Bangalore, I decided to walk down A4  {21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33} and so on, what is the
the escalator of a tube station. I did some quick average of the numbers of the set A20 ?
calculation in my mind. I found that if I walk down twenty
six steps, I require thirty seconds to reach the bottom. (a) 761 (b) 763 (c) 765 (d) 767
However, if I am able to step down thirty four stairs Read the following passage to answer the questions
I would only require eighteen seconds to get to the from 80 to 83.
bottom. If the time is measured from the moment the In each question below are given three statements
top step begins to descend to the time I step off the last follwed by three conclusions numbered I, Il and Ill. You have
step at the bottom, what is the height of the stairway in to take the three given statements to be true even if they seem
steps ? to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the
(a) 40 (b) 46 (c) 52 (D) 58 conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions
72. When you reverse the digits of the number 13, the logically follow(s) from the given statements disregarding
number increases by 18. How many other two-digit commonly known facts. Then decide which of the answers
numbers increase by 18 when their digits are (A), (B), (C) and (D) is the correct answer.
reversed ? 80. Statements :
(a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) 8 Some trees are branches.
73. Pick the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th and 6th letters in the word
All buds are branches.
REASONING, form yet another word and then write the
first and last ietters of the word formed. All flowers are trees.
(a) SE (b) ES (c) NE (d) OR Conclusions,
I. Some branches are buds.
74. A train after travelling 60 km meets with an accident and II. Some trees are flowers..
then proceeds at 3/4 of its former rate and arrives at the III. Some buds are trees.
terminus 40 minutes late. Had the accident happened (a) Only I follows (b) Only II follows
25km further on, it would have arrived 10 minutes
sooner. Find the speed of the train and the distance, (c) Only I and II follow (d) All follow
respectively. 81. Statements :
(a) 160 km / hr, 150 km (b) 160 km / hr, 140 km Some pots are eatables.
(c) 50 km / hr, 160 km (d) 40 km / hr, 160 km All eatables are drinks.
75. How many 5s are there in the following number series No banana is pot.
each of which is immediately followed by 4 but not Conclusions :
immediately preceded by 6 ?
I. Some pots are drinks.
456 656 455 455 654 456 456 5454
II. All eatables are pots.
(a) One (b) Three (c) Four (d) Two
III. Some drinks are eatables.
Read the following passage to answer the questions
(a) Only I follows (b) Only III follows
from 76 – 78.
(c) Only II follows (d) Only I and III follow
Rajita has a unique way of attempting the question
paper having 50 questions. She starts from question 1 and 82 Statements :
attempts all questions which are in A.P. with a commorl All jewels are rings.
difference of 3 in the forward direction and 3 in the reverse Some rings are necklaces.
direction. If she reaches a stage when she cannot attempt
Some cakes are jewels.
any more question, she starts in the reverse direction with the
first unanswered question. She repeats the same process Conclusions :
and when she reaches a stage when she can not process I. Some necklaces are jewels.
any further, she reverses her direction again starting with the II. Some rings are cakes.
first unanswered question.
III. No jewel is necklace.
76. How many times does she reverse her direction ?
(a) Only II and either I or III follow
(a) 3 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 6
(b) Only either I or III follows
77. Which is the last question that she answers if she at-
(c) Only II and III follow
tempts all the 50 questions ?
(d) Only II follows

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 (a) House E has a white chimney.
83. Statements (b) House E has a black chimney.
All actors are writers. (c) House E has a red chimney.
Some writers are dancers. (d) House D has a red chimney,
All poets are writers. 89. You have 13 balls which all look identical. All the balls
are of the same weight except for one. Using only a
Conclusions
balance scale, you can find the odd one out with how
I. All actors are poets many minimum number of weighing ?
II. Some dancers are writers (a) 3 (b) 5 (c) 6 (d) 4
III. Some dancers are actors 90. Identify the number of triangles in the figure given
(a) None follows below :
(b) Only I and II follow
(c) Only II and III follow
(d) Only I and III follow
Passage for Questions : 84 – 88
Five houses lettered A, B, C, D, & E are built in a row next
to each other. The houses are lined up in the order A, B, C, D,
& E. Each of the five houses have coloured roofs and chim-
neys. The roof and chimney of each house must be painted
as follows (a) 44 (b) 48 (c) 36 (d) 32
1. The roof must be painted either green, red, or
yellow. COMPUTER AWARENESS
2. The chimney must be painted either white, black~or
red.
91. On receiving an interrupt from an I/O device, the CPUs
3. No house may have the same colour chimney as
(a) hand over the control of address and data bus to
the colour of roof.
interrupting device.
4. No house may use any of the same colours that the
(b) branch off to interrupt service subroutine immedi-
every next house uses.
ately.
5. House E has a green roof.
(c) branch off to interrupt service subroutine after
6. House B has a red roof and a black chimney. completion of current instruction.
84. Which statement is false ? (d) None of the above
(a) House A has a yellow roof. 92. Micro-programmed control unit is
(b) House A & C have different colour chimneys. (a) faster than hard-wired unit.
(c) House D has a black chimney. (b) slower than hard-wired unit.
(d) House E has a white chimney. (c) to facilitate easy implementation of new instructions.
85. Which of the following is true ? (d) both (B) and (C).
(a) At least two houses have black chimneys. 93. Index register in a digital computer is used for
(b) At least two houses have red roofs. (a) pointing to the stack address.
(c) At least two houses have white chimneys. (b) indirect addressing.
(d) At least two houses have green roofs. (c) keeping track the number of times loop is executed.
86. What is maximum total number of green roofs for houses (d) address modification.
(a) 1 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 4 94. In the virtual memory system, the address space speci-
87. Which possible combinations of roof & chimney can a fied by address lines of the CPU must be ................than
house have ? the physical memory size and .................. than the sec-
I. A red roof & a black chimney. ondary storage size.
II. A yellow roof & a red chimney. (a) smaller, smaller (b) smaller, larger
III. A yellow roof & a black chimney. (c) larger, smaller (d) larger, larger
(a) I & II & Ill (b) II only 95. The switching expression corresponding to
(c) Ill only (d) I & II only f (A, B, C, D) =  (1, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12) is
88. If house C has a yellow roof, which one of the following (a) B C D  A C D  A B D
is true ?
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 (b) A B C  A C D  B C D (a) Agreement (b) Appreciation
(c) A C D  A B C  A C D (c) Creation (d) Complain
104. If some one is “gung ho”, then he / she is
(d) A B D  A C D  B C D
(a) stupid (b) childish
96. Assuming all numbers are in 2’s complement (c) enthusiastic (d) loud
represenatation, which of the following numbers is 105. Find the antonym of the word “DISPARAGE”.
divisible by 11111011 ? (a) degrade (b) improve (c) scatter (d) applaud
(a) 11100100 (b) 11010111 106. Fill in the blank
(c) 11011011 (d) 00000110 I could not ..................... him to attend the meeting.
97. A switching circuit that produces one in a set of input (a) prevail over (b) prevail upon
bits as an output based on the control value of control (c) prevail about (d) prevail in
bits is termed as 107. Identify the correct sentence
(a) Full Adder (b) Inverter (a) I have difficulty in remembering people’s names.
(c) Multiplexer (d) Converter (b) I get diffculty in remembering people’s names.
(c) I have difficulty on remembering people’s names.
98. A Computer with a 32 bit word size uses 2’s comple-
ment to represent numbers. The range of integers that (d) I am getting difficulty remembering people’s names.
can be represented by this computer is 108. Choose the word which can he used to replace the
underlined word, in both the sentences.
(a)  232 to 232 (b)  231 to 232
I. It is certainly a thing which tempts people.
(c)  231 to 231  1 (d)  232 to 231 II. I take exception to what he has just said
99. To change upper case to the lower case letter in ASCII, (a) object (b) protest
correct mask and operation should be (c) issue (d) prototype
(a) 0100000 and NOR. (b) 0100000 and NAND. 109. The idiom ‘I will be a monkey’s uncle’ means
(c) 0100000 and OR. (d) None of the above (a) to want to keep a monkey
(b) that I have been enlightened
100. Why is the width of a data bus so important to the
processing speed of a computer ? (c) that I have been fooled
(a) The narrower it is, the greater the computer’s pro- (d) to express disbelief
cessing speed. 110. Choose the pair of words which exhibits the same rela-
(b) The wider it is, the more data can fit into the main tionship between each other as the given pair of words.
memory. WRITING : PLAGIARISM
(c) The wider it is, the greater the computer’s process- (a) confidence : deception
ing speed. (b) money : misappropriation
(d) The wider it is, the slower the computer’s process- (c) gold : theft (d) germ : disease
ing speed. 111. The pleasures of the table are never of consequence to
one naturally abstemious. The word abstemious can
be replaced by :
GENERAL ENGLISH
(a) indulgent (b) temperate
(c) discreet (d) profligate
101. A sentence has been given in active (or passive) voice.
112. The following passage consists of six sentences. The
Out of the four alternatives select the one which best
first sentnece (S1) is given in the beginning. The final
expresses the same sentence in passive (or active)
sentence (S6) is given in the last. The middle four sen-
voice. I know him.
tences are jumbled up and labelled as P, Q, R and S.
(a) He has been known by me (b) He was known to me You are required to find out the proper sequence of the
(c) He is known by me. (d) He is known to me. four sentences and mark accordingly.
102. Select the set of words that best fits the meaning of the S1 : Unlike many modern thinkers, Tagore had no
sentence as a whole. While the disease is in .............. blueprint for the world’s salvation.
state it is almost impossible to determine its existence P : His thought will therefore never be out of date.
by ...........
Q : He merely emphasised certain basic truths which
(a) a dormant, postulate men may ignore only at their peril.
(b) a critical, examination R : Hie belived in no particular ‘ism’.
(c) a cute, analysis S : He was what Gandhiji rightly termed the great
(d) a latent, observation sentinel.
103. For the word “QUIBBLE” find the most appropriate S6 : As a poet he will always delight, as a singer he will
meaning from the alternatives given below always enchant, as a teacher he will always

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 enlighten. (a) enormous wingspan of the pterosaurs enable them
The proper sequence should be to fly great distances.
(a) SRPQ (b) PRQS (c) RSPQ (d) RQPS (b) structure of the skeleton of the pterosaurs suggests
a close evolutionary relationship to bats.
113. Which of the underlined parts in the sentence given
below is a mistake which may need to be deleted or (c) fossil remains of the pterosaurs reveal how they
modified. solved the problem of powered flight.
He can be able to pass the test in flyinq colours without (d) pterosaurs were reptiles.
any difficulties whatsoever. 115. According to the passage the skeleton of pterosaurs
(a) be able (b) flying colours can be distinguished from that of a bird by the
(c) difficulties (d) whatsoever (a) the size of its wingspan.
Read the passage and select the most suitable (b) presence of hollow spaces in its bones.
answer to questions 114 and 115 from the given choices : (c) anatomic origin of its wing strut.
The fossil remains of the first flying vertebrates, the (d) presence of hooklike projections on its hind feet.
pterosaurs, have intrigued palaeontologists for more than 116. Pick the part of the sentence that has an error :
two centuries. How such large creatures, which weighted in
My elder brother is a MA whereas I am only a BA
some cases as much as a piloted hang glider and had
wingspans from 8 to 12 meters, solved the problems of (a) My elder brother (b) is a MA
powered flight, and exactly what these creatures were – (c) whereas I am (d) only a BA
reptiles or birds – are among the questions scientists have 117. Choose the suitable phrasal verb for the blank in the
puzzled over. sentence below.
Perhaps the least controversial assertion about the I _________ my hopes when untimely rain threatened
pterosaurs is that they were reptiles. Their skulls, pelvises, my crops.
and hind feet are reptilian. The anatomy of their wings (a) gave in (b) gave out
suggests that they did not evolve into the class of birds. In (c) gave up (d) gave off
pterosaurs a greatly elongated fourth finger of each forelimb
118. Out of the given alternatives, choose the word that is
supported a wing like membrane. The other fingers were
opposite in meaning to the word : AFFLUENT
short and reptilian, with sharp claws. In birds the second
finger is the principle strut of the wing, which consists prima- (a) Reluctant (b) Poor
rily of feathers. If the pterosaur walked or remained stationary, (c) Clear (d) Enthusiastic
the fourth finger, and with it the wing, could only turn upward in 119. Fill in the blank with appropriate form of noun :
an extended inverted V-shape along side of the animal’s body. Don’t blame yourself, it’s not your ___________!
The pterosaurs resembled both birds and bats in their (a) misunderstanding (b) error
overall structure and proportions. This is not surprising (c) slip (d) fault
because the design of any flying vertebrate is subject to
aerodynamic constraints. Both the pterosaurs and the birds 120. Fill in the blank :
have hollow bones, a feature that represents a saving in The instructor, along with the class, ________ angry
weight. In the birds, however, these bones are reinforced more about the room change.
massively by internal struts. (a) are (b) have (c) has (d) is
114. It can be inferred from the passage that the scientists
now generally agree that

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