reaching the sewer after use; hence it is related in quantity and in flow fluc- tuation to water use. The discharge of waste waters into surface-water or ground water courses, which consti- tute the natural drainage of an area is known as sewage disposal.
Most waste waters contain offen- sive and potentially dangerous subs- tances, which can use pollution and contamination of the receiving water bodies. Contamination is defined as the impairment of water quality to a degree that create a hazard to public health. Pollution refers to the adverse effects on water quality that interfere with its proper and beneficial use. The principal sources of pollution are domestic sewage and industrial wastes.
The water-quality criteria deal with the physio-chemical and biologi- cal parameters of pollution. The most common standards are concerned with physical appearance, odour pro- duction, dissolved-oxygen concentra- tion, pathogenic contamination, and potentially toxic or harmful chemicals. ●●●
1. Which of the following Article of Indian Constitution propounds Equality before Law ?
(A) Article 15 (B) Article 13 (C) Article 14 (D) Article 12 2. Which of the Articles of the
Constitution of India enshrines protection against arrest and detention in certain cases ? (A) Article 22 (B) Article 23 (C) Article 25 (D) Article 26 3. Ozone layer lies in—
(A) Mesosphere (B) Stratosphere (C) Exosphere (D) None of the above
4. Which Article of Indian Consti- tution says that “no tax shall be levied or collected except by authority of law” ?
(A) Article 265 (B) Article 266 (C) Article 268 (D) Article 270 5. Chemically Vitamin C is—
(A) Riboflavin (B) Thiamin (C) Ascorbic acid (D) Niacin 6. Which of the following vitamins is
not fat-soluble ?
(A) Vitamin A (B) Vitamin C (C) Vitamin D (D) Vitamin E 7. The poem ‘Pagri Sambhal O
Jatta’ which infused patriotic fervour in Punjab during freedom struggle was written by— (A) Banke Dayal (B) Lala Lajpat Roy (C) Sardar Ajit Singh (D) Ghulam Kader
8. ‘India’s First War of Indepen- dence’ is the book written by— (A) Bhupendranath Dutt (B) Ganesh Savarkar
(C) Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (D) Lala Hardayal
9. The Gadar Party was set up in— (A) 1913 (B) 1915 (C) 1914 (D) 1912 10. Kaiga Atomic Power Plant is
situated in— (A) Karnataka (B) Maharashtra
(C) Uttar Pradesh (D) Tamil Nadu
11. The maximum number of mem- bers that the Legislative Assem- bly of a State in India can have, is—
(A) 400 (B) 450 (C) 500 (D) 550
12. Bank rate is the rate at which the Reserve Bank of India provides loans to—
(A) Public Sector Undertakings (B) Scheduled Commercial
Banks
(C) Private Corporate Sector (D) Non-Banking FinancialInsti-
tutions
13. Who of the following founded the East India Association ?
(A) C. R. Das (B) Dadabhai Noroji (C) Devendra Nath Tagore (D) V. D. Savarkar
14. Tipu Sultan died fighting the English forces under—
(A) Lord Cornwallis (B) Lord Wellesley (C) Lord Dalhousie (D) Lord Hastings
15. The battle of Wandiwash was fought between—
(A) Marathas and Portuguese (B) The English and the French (C) The English and the Por-
tuguese
(D) The Marathas and the English
16. Golden Quadrilateral Project is— (A) Conversion of meter gauge
into broad gauge
(B) Construction of four lane highways joining four metro- polis of India
(C) Joining of four important rivers of North India and South-India
(D) Joining of four important cities of India with air trans- port
17. The first weekly Bengali news- paper ‘Samachar Darpan’ was published by—
(A) Harish Chandra Mukherjee (B) Dinabandhu Mitra
(C) Marshman (D) Vidyasagar
18. Where is the headquarters of Asian Development Bank situ- ated at ?
(A) Jakarta (B) Manila (C) Singapore (D) Bangkok 19. Who was responsible for the
introduction of the Vernacular Press Act of 1878 ?
(A) Lord Mayo (B) Lord Lytton (C) Lord Rippon (D) Lord Curzon
20. Gandhiji started Civil Disobe- dience Movement in—
(A) 1930 (B) 1931 (C) 1933 (D) 1942 21. As per 2001 census of India, the
total number of million cities in the country is—
(A) 25 (B) 30
(C) 35 (D) 40
22. The country with the largest of petroleum reserves in the world is—
(A) Iran (B) Iraq (C) Saudi Arabia (D) Russia 23. The three leading petroleum pro-
ducing countries in correct descending order are—
(A) Saudi Arabia, U.S.A. and Russia
(B) U.S.A., Saudi Arabia and Iran
(C) Saudi Arabia, U.S.A. and Iran
(D) U.S.A., Saudi Arabia and Mexico
24. The largest producer of silver in the world is—
(A) Canada (B) Mexico (C) U.S.A. (D) Australia 25. The largest exporter of fish in the
world is—
(A) Norway (B) U.K. (C) Canada (D) Japan
26. Which one of the following States has the highest percentage of Scheduled Caste population ? (A) Tamil Nadu
(B) Punjab (C) Rajasthan (D) West Bengal
27. The Indian National Congress was founded by—
(A) Lala Lajpat Roy (B) Lord Dufferin (C) Lord Ripon
(D) Allen Octavian Hume 28. AnnieBesant arrived in India in—
(A) 1893 (B) 1895 (C) 1890 (D) 1904 29. In which state are the Mahadeo
hills located ? (A) Bihar (B) Rajasthan (C) Madhya Pradesh (D) Chhattisgarh
30. From economic point of view the most important rocks of India are—
(A) Dharwar (B) Gondwana (C) Vindhyan (D) Cuddappah 31. To which of the following did
Aurangzeb give title Deen Panah ?
(A) Mohammad Azam (B) Azam
(C) Kam Bakhash (D) None of the above 32. Nadir Shah invaded India in—
(A) 1740 (B) 1739 (C) 1745 (D) 1746 33. During which of the following
Mughal Emperor’s rule was the third battle of Panipat fought ? (A) Alamgir II
(B) Bahadur Shah II (C) Akbar Shah II (D) Shah Alam II
34. During 1707 to 1759, in a span of just five decades how many Mughal Emperors had ascended the throne ?
(A) Eight (B) Nine (C) Seven (D) Six
35. The Atmiya Sabha was founded by—
(A) Swami Vivekanand (B) Raja Rammohan Roy (C) Swami Dayanand
(D) Ramakrishna Paramhansa
36. Howmanydepartments are there in the Ministry of Home Affairs ?
(A) 6 (B) 7
(C) 5 (D) 4
37. In India the smallest million city is—
(A) Allahabad (B) Amritsar (C) Faridabad (D) Rajkot 38. National Authority Chemical
Weapons Convention (CWC) has been set up under the adminis- trative control of—
(A) Prime Minister’s Office (B) Cabinet Secretariat (C) Central Secretariat (D) Home Ministry
39. According to 2001 census, the least urbanisedStateof India is— (A) Assam
(B) Bihar
(C) Himachal Pradesh (D) Sikkim
40. In which one of the following crops does Madhya Pradesh stand first in India in area and production ?
(A) Cotton (B) Millet (C) Sugarcane (D) Soyabean
ANSWERS WITH HINTS
1. What is the order of energy of the X-ray photon ?
(A) 1 keV (B) 10 keV
(C) 100 keV (D) 1 MeV 2. Three uncharged capacitors of
capacitances C1, C2 and C3 are connected as shown in figure to one-another and to points A, B and D at potentials VA, VB and VD. Then the potential at O will be— C1 O B D A C3 C2 (A) VA + VB + VC C1 + C2 + C3 (B) VAC1 + VBC2 + VDC3 C1 + C2 + C3 (C) VAVB + VBVD + VDVA C1 + C2 + C3 (D) VAVBVD C1C2 + C2C3 + C3C1 3. Two bodies are projected up-
wards with same initial velocity of 98 ms–1 after an interval of 4 sec.
At what time after the launch of first body will they meet ? (A) 12 sec (B) 14 sec (C) 15 sec (D) 10 sec 4. Assertion (A) : If
→
A + →B + →C = 0,
then →A ×→B = →B ×→C = →C ×→A
Reason (R) : The vector sum of
three vectors can never be zero. Choose the correct answer from the following—
(A) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct expla- nation of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is the correct expla- nation of (A)
(C) (A) is true but (R) is wrong (D) (A) is wrong but (R) is right 5. A wave is represented by
y = 0·4 cos
(
8t – x)
2
where x and y are in metres and
t in seconds. The frequency of
the wave is— (A) 4 π sec –1 (B) 8 π sec –1 (C) π 4 sec–1 (D) π 8 sec–1 6. The rate expression for a
gaseous reaction
2A + B → C, is the rate = k [A]2
[B]1/2
when the volume of container is suddenly reduced to 1
4 th, rate of reaction will increase—
(A) 32 times (B) 8 times (C) 4 times (D) 16 times 7. Which of the following is
commonly known as ‘oil of vitriol’ ?
(A) H2S2O7 (B) H2SO4 (C) H2S2O6 (D) H2S2O3Mg
8. Allylcyanide contains σ and π
bonds—
(A) 3σ and 4π bonds (B) 5σ and 7π bonds (C) 9σ and 3π bonds (D) 9σ and 9π bonds
9. Thefact about digitoxose is/are— (A) Its formula is C6H12O4 (B) The 2-deoxy sugar present
in several of the cardiac glycosides of digitalis (C) Its formula is C3H8O3 (D) Both (A) and (B)
10. Isomers differing in their con- figuration at a chiral atom are termed as—
(A) Enantiomers (B) Potentiomers (C) Chargers (D) Decomers
11. The effect of temperature among various bacteria is best under- stood by considering its effect on—
(A) Cell wall (B) Enzymes
(C) Ribosome (D) Lysosome
12. Which of the following is/are mounting medium (media) for slide preparation in botany anatomy ?
(A) Glycerine 10% (B) Glycerine jelly (C) Both (A) and (B) (D) None of the above
13. The chlorophycean characteris- tics include—
(A) Presence of chlorophyll within chloroplasts
(B) Pyrenoids present within chloroplasts
(C) Photosynthetic food product is starch
(D) All of the above
14. The characteristic by which a gene is made able to yield a phenotypic character is called— (A) Gene library
(B) Gene expression (C) Gene manipulation (D) Gene pool
15. Investigators perform a dihybrid cross between two hetero- zygotes and get about a 3 : 1 ratio among the offspring. The reason must be due to—
(A) Linked genes (B) Epistatic genes (C) Pleiotrophic genes (D) Polygenes 16. Fishes have— (A) Vertebrae (B) Spinal cord (C) Skull and bone (D) All of the above
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17. Change in vision of elderly persons, by which they go back to the sight of their youth, is termed as—
(A) Giardiasis (B) Gerontopia
(C) Ghost corpuscle (D) Night blindness
18. Which type of endoplasmic reticulum lacks ribosomes and is involved in the synthesis of steroid hormone ? (A) Rough endoplasmic reticulum
(B) Tough endoplasmic reticulum (C) Smooth endoplasmic reticulum (D) All of the above
19. Development on land requires that the— (A) Skin should be wet
(B) All integuments should be dried (C) Both (A) and (B) are correct
(D) Embryo be protected from desiccation
20. Chicken development can be used to model the development of—
(A) Birds (B) Reptiles (C) Both (A) and (B) (D) None of the above
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