Q1. Which of the following is/are the most rational and logical rotovator to cut the leftover straw into pieces, which can be inference/inferences that can be made from the passage? ploughed back and will decompose very fast. All this is difficult 1. It is essential to rethink and redefine the economic role of with leftover paddy stalks that cannot be easily salvaged or the State in the quest for deve
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The inference drawn from the passage that it is genome editing does not require the transfer of genes from essential to rethink and redefine the economic role of the one plant to another. It further says that through genome State in the quest for development is not admissible. editing, the chosen genes can be altered precisely in a Similarly, India has not made effective implementation of manner akin to the natural process that helps plants to its policies in social sectors nor made sufficient i
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Q2. Which one of the following is the most logical, rational Directions for the following 7 (seven) items: Read the following and crucial inference that can be derived from the above five passages and answer the items that follow each passage. passage?
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Q3. Processed probiotic foods are a solution to treat the economic growth – or less restrictive alternatives. Regulations children suffering from malnutrition due to immature may be used to protect local markets at the expense of more widely gut bacteria composition. shared prosperity in the future. Additionally, regulations inevitably 2. The babies of malnourished mothers gererally tend to result in
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Q4. India needs to make sufficient legislation for governing (a) Public research institutions should take the lead in food processing industry. GM technology and prioritise the technology agenda. Which of the above assumptions is/are valid? (b) Developing countries should raise this issue in WTO (a) 1 and 2 only (b) 3 only and ensure the abolition of Intellectual Property Rights. (c) 1 and 3 only (d)
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Q5. most of modern economic growth is based on (a) Untouchability in India has not been taken seriously technological progress. by political theorists. 2. much of modern Indian economy does not nurture (b) Historical injustice is inevitable in any society and is sufficient symbiotic relationship with labour-intensive, always beyond repair. natural resource-based livelihoods. (c) Social discrimination
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Q6. Removal of economic discrimination leads to removal PASSAGE of social discrimination. 2. Democratic polity is the best way to repair historical India has banking correspondents, who help bring people in the wrongs. hinterland into the banking fold. For them to succeed, banks cannot Which of the above assumptions is/are valid? crimp on costs. They also cannot afford to ignore investing in (a) 1 onl
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Q7. What is the most logical and rational corollary to the appliances, thermostats, security and monitoring devices and above passage?
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Q8. Which one of the following statements is the most logical of global warming. and rational inference that can be made from the above (c) Due to a large number of farmer households, India will passage?
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Q9. Governments and companies need to be adequately undermines its socio-economic structures. prepared to face the climate change. (b) India should be careful to protect its digital sovereignty 2. Extreme weather events will reduce the economic in global trade talks. growth of governments and companies in future. (c) India should charge monopoly rents from multinational 3. Ignoring climate change is a
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Q10. Which of the following is the most rational inference Asia face the risk of falling into 'middle-income trap'. It means from the above passage? [2017 - II] that average incomes in these countries, which till now have (a) The world will not be able to cope with large-scale been growing rapidly, will stop growing beyond a point-a point migration of climate refugees. that is well short of incomes in
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Q11. Which among the following is the most logical corollary (c) Mass production of meat through industrial farming to the above passage? [2017 - II] is undesirable and should be stopped immediately. (a) Increasing the efficiency of farm-to-fork value chain (d) Environmental cost of meat production is unsustainable is necessary to reduce the poverty and malnutrition. when it is produced through industr
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Q12. The strategy of conservation of wildlife by relocating thing. Over and beyond the dangers with which it threatens them from one protected area to another is not often the present, it opens up as nothing else can, the vision of a successful. possible happy world; a world without poverty, without war, 2. India does not have suitable legislation to save the with little illness. Science, whatever unpl
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Q13. Climate change is a complex policy issue and also a and free access to its resources. development issue for many countries. (b) Melting of summer ice in the Arctic leads to changes 3. Ways and means of finance must be found to enable in the geopolitics. developing countries to enhance their adaptive capacity. (c) The Arctic region will solve the world’s future Which of the above assumptions is/are
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Q14. India continues to be a developing country economic, cultural and indeed linguistic and pedagogic issues, essentially due to its faulty education system. factors that prevent children from weaker sections and 2. Today’s learners need to acquire new-age skill-sets. disadvantaged groups, as also girls, from regularly attending 3. A good number of Indians go to some developed and complementing elemen
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Q15. The Right to Education guarantees 100% enrolment (a) Preserving crop genetic diversity is an insurance of children in the schools. against the effects of climate change. 3. The Right to Education intends to take full advantage (b) Despite great risks, monoculture is the only way of demographic dividend. to ensure food security in the world. Which of the above assumptions is/are valid? (c) More and
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Q16. What is the essential message in this passage?
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Q17. Which of the following is the most logical and rational (c) The Right to Free and Compulsory Education should inference that can be made from the above passage? include quality education for all.
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Q18. Unlike Europe and North America, where and am anxious that India should rid herself of all shackles that only three to four percent of population is engaged in agriculture, bind and contain her and divide her people, and suppress vast around 47 percent of India’s population is dependent upon numbers of them, and prevent the free development of the body agriculture. Even if India continues to do we
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Q19. Which of the following is the most logical corollary to Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, and site quality decline-a the above passage?
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Q20. Conservation of natural water sources ultimate consequences of site desertification are soil 2. Conservation of wider gene pool degradation, alteration in available water and its quality, and 3. Existing crop management practices the consequent decline in food, fodder and fuelwood yields 4. Migration corridors essential for the economic well-being of rural communities. Select the correct answer us
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Q21. Desertification is a phenomenon in tropical areas limit human population. only. (c) Reducing our consumerism is very much in our own 2. Deforestation invariably leads to floods and interest. desertification. (d) Knowledge of biological systems can only help us Which of the above assumptions is/are valid? save this planet. (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 PASSAGE PASSAGE S
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Q22. Which among the following is the most crucial message 173. The main idea of the passage is that [2017 - II] conveyed by the above passage? [2017 - II] (a) it is essential for human beings to work (a) The ideas of purity and pollution are so deep-rooted (b) there should be a balance between work and leisure that they cannot be removed from the minds of the (c) working is a tyranny which we have to
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Q23. What is the most logical, rational and crucial message that adaptation actions are a matter of intense debate in the multilateral is implied in the above passage? negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention (a) Under the present circumstances, India should on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Convention squarely puts completely avoid all trade liberalisation policies and the responsibili
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Q24. Which among the following is the most logical corollary to 143. Which one of the following is the message that is the above passage ?
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Q25. There is a need to promote greater awareness on safe developing countries sanitation practices in urban areas. (b) Improving food security is a far more complex issue Which of the statements given above is/are correct? than climate adaptation (a) 1 only (b) 2 only (c) Every developmental activity is directly or indirectly (c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2 linked to climate adaptation PASSAGE (d
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Q26. Which among the following is the most logical assumption (a) the antithesis of Politics and Economics that can be made from the above passage?
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Q27. Which among the following is the most logical and (a) the entire national output produced and consumed in rational inference that can be made from the above industrialized countries passes through commercial passage?
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Q28. What is the critical message conveyed by the above atmosphere. This is largely because of increased plant growth. passage?
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Q29. Setting up more agro-based industries The issue is where to draw the line. Over the years, the emphasis 2. Improving the price affordability by the poor seems to have tilted in favour of greater internal accountability of 3. Regulating the conditions of marketing the civil services to the political leaders of the day who in turn are 4. Providing food subsidy to one and all expected to be externall
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Q30. Human beings can be duty bound only if they believe devolution of authority to bring government and decision in god making closer to the people also helps to enhance accountability. 3. Religious traditions are essential to practice and 156. According to the passage, which of the following factor/ understand justice factors led to the adverse consequences for governance/ Which of these assumption(s
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Q31. Political executive is an obstacle to the accountability of the civil services to the society PASSAGE 2. In the present framework of Indian polity, the political executive is no longer accountable to the society Biomass as fuel for power, heat, and transport has the highest Which of these assumptions is/are valid? mitigation potential of all renewable sources. It comes from (a) 1 only (b) 2 only a
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Q32. According to the passage, which one of the following is could increase nearly four-fold to around 150 – 200 exajoules, not a means of enhancing internal accountability of civil almost a quarter of world primary energy in 2050. However the services?
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Q33. Some climate-energy models suggest that the use of suggestion of a friend-who fluctuates from opinion to opinion biomass as a fuel for power generation helps in and veers from plan to plan-can never accomplish anything. He mitigating greenhouse gas emissions will at best be stationary and probably retrograde in all. It is 2. It is not possible to use biomass as a fuel for power only the man who fi