Passage-2
Climate adaptation may be rendered ineffective if policies are not designed in the context of other development concerns. For instance, a comprehensive strategy that seeks to improve food security in the context of climate change may include a set of coordinated measures related to agricultural extension, crop diversification, integrated water and pest management and agricultural information series. Some of these measures may have to do with climate changes and others with economic development.
26675.What is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?
It is difficult to pursue climate adaptation in the developing countries
Improving food security is a far more complex issue than climate adaptation
Every developmental activity is directly or indirectly linked to climate adaptation
Climate adaptation should be examined in tandem with other economic development ptions
Passage-3
Understanding of the role of biodiversity in the hydrological cycle enables better policy-making. The term biodiversity refers to the variety of plants, animals, microorganisms, and the ecosystems in which they occur. Water and biodiversity are interdependent. In reality, the hydrological cycle decides how biodiversity functions. In turn, vegetation and soil drive the movement of water. Every glass of water we drink has, at least in part, passed through fish, trees, bacteria, soil and other organisms. Passing through these ecosystems, it is cleansed and made fit for consumption. The supply of water is a critical service that the environment provides.
26676.Which among the following is the most critical inference that can be made from the above passage ?
biodiversity sustains the ability of nature to recycle water
We cannot get potable water without the existence of living organisms
Plants, animals and microorganisms continuously interact among themselves
Living organisms could not have come into existence without hydrological cycle
Passage-4
In the last decade, the banking sector has been restructured with a high degree of automation and products that mainly serve middle-class and upper middle-class society. Today there is need for a new agenda for the banking and non-banking financial services that does not exclude the common man
26677.Which one of the following is the message that is essentially implied in the above passage?
Need for more automation and more products of bank
Need for a radical restructuring of our entire public finance system
Need to integrate banking and non-banking institutions
Need to promote financial inclusion
Passage-5
Safe and sustainable sanitation in slums has immeasurable benefits to women and girls in terms of their health, safety, privacy and dimity. However, women do not feature in most of the schemes and policies on urban sanitation. The fact that even now the manual scavenging exists, ones to show that not enough has been done to promote pour-flush toilets and discontinue the use of dry latrines. A more sustained and rigorous campaign needs to be launched towards the right to sanitation on a very large scale. This should primarily focus on the abolition of manual scavenging.
26678.With reference to the above passage, consider the following statements: 1. Urban sanitation problems can be fully solved by the abolition of manual scavenging only 2. There is a need to promote greater awareness on safe sanitation practices in urban areas Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
1 only
2 only
Both I and 2
Neither 1 nor 2
Passage-6
To understand the nature and quantity of Government proper for man, it is necessary to attend to his character. As nature created him for social life, she fitted him for the station she intended. In all cases she made his natural wants greater than his individual powers. No one man is capable, without the aid of society, of supplying his own wants; and those wants, acting upon every individual, impel the whole of them into society.
26679.Which among the following is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage ?
Nature has created a great diversity in human society
Any given human society is always short of its wants
Social life is a specific characteristic of man
Diverse natural wants forced man towards social system
Passage-7
The nature of the legal imperatives in any given state corresponds to the effective demands that state encounters, and that these, in their turn, depend, in a general way, upon the manner in which economic power is distributed in the society which the state controls.
Passage-8
About 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from agricultural practices. This includes nitrous oxide fertilizers; methane from livestock, rice production, and manure storage; and carbon dioxide (CO2) from burning biomass, but this excludes CO2 emissions from soil management practices, sayannah burning and deforestation. Foresty and use, and land-use change account for another percent of greenhouse gas emissions each ear, three quarters of which come from tropical deforestation. The remainder is largely from draining and burning tropical peatland. About the same amount of carbon is stored in the world's peatlands as is stored in the Amazon rainforest.
26681.Which among the following is the most logical and rational inference that can be made from the above passage?
Organic farming should immediately replace mechanised and chemical dependant agricultural practices all over the world
It is imperative for us to modify our land use practices in order to mitigate climate change.
There are no technological solutions to the problem of greenhouse gas emissions
Tropical areas are the chief sites of carbon sequestration
26682.A person climbs a hill in a straight path from point O on the ground in the direction of north-east and reaches a point A after travelling a distance of 5 km. Then, from the point A he moves to point B in the direction of north-west. Let the distance AB be 12 km. Now, how far is the person away from the starting point O?
7 km
13 km
17 km
11 km
26683.An agricultural field is in the form of a rectangle having length X1 meters and breadth X2 meters (X1 and X2 are variable). If X1 + X2 = 40 meters, then the area of the agricultural field will not exceed which one of the following values?
400 sq m
300 sq m
200 sq m
80 sq m
26684.The sum of the ages of 5 members comprising a family, 3 years ago was 80 years. The average age of the family today is the same as it was 3 years ago, because of an addition of a baby during the intervening period. How old is the baby ?
6 months
1 year
2 years
2 years and 6 months
26685.The total emoluments of two persons are the same, but one gets allowances to the extent of 65% of his basic pay and the other gets allowances to the extent of 80% of his basic pay. The ratio of the basic pay of the former to the basic pay of the latter is:
16 : 13
5 : 4
7 : 5
12 : 11
26686.A person is standing on the first step from the bottom of a ladder. If he has to climb 4 more steps to reach exactly the middle step, how many steps doe he ladder have?
8
9
10
11
Direction for the following 3 (three) items : Consider the given information and answer the three items that follow.
When three friends A, B and C met, it was found that each of them wore an outer garment of a different colour. In random order, the garments are: jacket, sweater and tie; and the colours are: blue, white and black. Their surnames in random order Kumar and Singh.
Further, we know that :
1. neither B nor Ribeiro wore a white sweater
2. C wore a tie
3. Singh's garment was not white
4. Kumar does not wear a jacket
5. Ribeiro does not like to wear the black colour
6. Each of the friends wore only one outer garment of only one colour
26690.AB is a vertical trunk of a huge tree with A being the point where the base of the trunk touches the ground. Due to a cyclone, the trunk has been broken at C which is at a height of 12 meters, broken part is partially attached to the vertical portion of the trunk at C. If the end of the broken part B touches the ground at D which is at a distance of 5 meters from A, then the original height of the trunk is:
20 m
25 m
30 m
35 m
26691.A person walks 12 km due north, then 15 km due east, after that 19 km due west and then 15 km due south. How far is he from the starting point?
5 km
9 km
37 km
61 km
26692.A cube has all its faces painted with different colours. It is cut into smaller cubes of equal sizes such that the side of the small cube is one-fourth the big cube. The number of small cubes with only one of the sides painted is:
32
24
16
8
26693.Ram and Shyam work on a job together for four days and complete 60% of it. Ram takes leave then and Shyam works for eight more days to complete the job. How long would Ram take to complete the entire job alone?
6 days
8 days
10 days
11 days
26694.A military code writes SYSTEM as SYSMET and NEARER as AENRER. Using the same code, FRACTION can be written as:
CARFTION
FRACNOIT
NOITCARF
CARFNOIT
26695.If R and S are different integers both divisible by 5, then which of the following is not necessarily true?
R - S is divisible by 5
R + S is divisible by 10
R x S is divisible by 25
R2 + S2 is divisible by 5
26696.How many numbers are there between 100 and 300 which either begin with or end with 2?
