Civil Services Exam 2011- CSAT-Paper 1 -Model Test 2 Part2

Indian Civil Services Exam 2011- CSAT Model Test 2 - Part 2

51. Consider the following statements about Eco-City Project.

I Project aims at improving the existing environment and at changing those aspects that

are causing environment damage.

II The focus of the project includes production environmental resources like water bodies, forest etc. improving infrastructure and sanitary condition in the towns and creating aesthetic environs.

III The Eco-City Programme has been continued during the 11th five year plan with inclusion of  Chanderi, Sawai Madhopur and Darjeeling

IV Ajmer is one of the project city under this programme.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

a) I, II and IV

b) I and III

c) II and IV    

d) I, II and III

Ans: D

52. Consider the following statements :

I With 17 percent of the world’s population, India contributing only 4 percent of the total global greenhouse gas emission.

II India’ Five Year plans include a strategy for sustainable growth resulting in low carbon

sustainable development.

III Eleventh Five Year Plan includes an indicative target of increasing energy efficiency by 20 percent by 2016-17.

IV India has declared that it will reduce emission intensity of its GDP by 20-25 percent by 2020 in comparison with2005 level.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

a) I, II, III and IV 

b) II, III and IV

c) I and IV        

d) II and III

Ans: A

53. Consider the following statements about Cobalt-60:

I Cobalt-60 is the radioactive isotope of cobalt.

II It is not found in nature.

III Cobalt-60 is a hard, lustrous, grey metal

IV It is used for the treatment of cancer

Which of the statements given above are correct?

a) I, II, III and IV  

b) I, II and III

c) I and III             

d) II and IV

Ans: A

54. What is Samundra Prahari ?

a) A Sea Plane connecting between Mumbai and Goa

b) A Pollution Control Vehicle

c) Indigenously build Nuclear Submarine

d) None of these

Ans: B

55. Consider the following statements :

I Russia sold its Nuclear Power K-152 Nerpa attack submarine to India.

II The 12000 ton K-152 Nerpa and Akula II class nuclear power attack submarine was originally scheduled to be introduced to the Indian Navy as INS - Chakra by mid-2008

III Akula II class vessels are considered to be the quietest and deadliest of all Russian Nuclear Powered Submarines.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a) I, II and III

b) II and III

c) I only         

d) II only

Ans: B

56. Consider the following statments about Trade and Development Report

I Trade and Development Report was launched in year 1981 by the UNCTAD

II This is a policy statement which is issued at the annual session of Trade and Development Board

III The report analysis current economic trends and major policy issues of international concerns, and make suggestions for addressing these issues at various level.

IV The major rocus of trade and Development Report 2010 is on poverty eradication

Which of the statements given above are correct?

a) I, II, III and IV  

b) I and II

c) III and IV       

d) I, II and III

Ans: D

57. What is CR DHAN 201:

a) A new variety of rice

b) A new variety of maze

c) A new variety of pulses

d) A new variety of wheat

Ans: A

58. Consider the following statements :

I Nikki Haley became only the second Indian- American to be a Governor of a US state after Bobby Jindal of Luciana; and also the first Indian origin women governor.

II Haley is the first woman and first person from a majority group to be elected governor of  conservative southern state.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a) only I            

b) only II

c) Both i and II 

d) Neither I nor II

Ans: C

59. Tiger Summit, World Bank meet to save Tigers was held in?

a) Russia

b) China

c) India   

d) Sri Lanka

Ans: A

60. Consider the following statements :

I Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008

II Kosovo held its first parliamentary election in 2010

III Kosovo is a member of United Nations

IV Croatia boarders with Kosovo

Which of the statements given above are correct?

a) I, II, III and IV

b) I and II

c) III and IV           

d) I, II and IV

Ans: B

61. Consider the following statements about Wikileaks

I Wikileaks is an international non profit porganisation that publish submissions of private, secret and classified media from anonymous news source and news leaks.

II Its website launched in 2006 and run by Sunshine press

III Julian Assange, and Australian internet activist is its director

IV Wikileaks was originally launched as an usereditable wiki site

Which of the statements given above are correct?

a) I, II, III and IV

b) I and II

c) III and IV       

 d) I, III and IV

Ans: A

62. Which of the following country/countries, not member(s) of Euro Currency

a) Andorra

b) Austria

c) Sweden  

d) Britain

Ans: C

63. Consider the following statments about IAEA Nuclear Fuel Bank

I A decision has been taken at the IAEA Governing Body Meeting in Vienna for the

creation of a Fuel Bank.

II Of low enriched Uranium for use of countries with a small or sart-up civil nuclear energy program.

III The bank intends to take care of market based distribution in low enriched Uranium supply that countries with a full safe guard civil nuclear program may experience.

IV India is also a member of the governing Body of IAEA

Which of the statements given above are correct?

a) I, II, III and IV   

b) I and II

c) III and IV          

d) I, III and IV

Ans: A

64. Rhahea is a moon of :

a) Jupiter

b) Neptune

c) Uranus   

d) Saturn

Ans: D

65. Consider the following statements about Women Against Sexual Harassment at Workplace Bill 2010 :

I The bill mandates setting up of an internal committee by a company or any other institute to probe a written complaint by an aggrieved person or settle the matter through conciliation.

II The bill aims for a comprehensive legislation to provide safe, secure, and enabling environment, free forms of harassment to every woman, irrespective of her age or emotional status.

III The bill fix the responsibility on the employer aswell as DM or ADM or The Cllector for statutory redressal mechanism.

IV The bill will not applied to the private sector organisation and NGO’s.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

a) I, II, III and IV

b) I and II

c) III and IV

d) I, II and III

Ans: D

66. Who among the following leads the three member team of Kashmir Interlocators

a) D. V. Sunder

b) A. N. Tiwari

c) Dileep Padgaonkar

d) U. S. Sharma

Ans: C

67. Consider the following statements about Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors :

I The first pair of indigenously designed 700 MW Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor is being constructed at Kakrapar (Gujarat)

II The 700 MW units are the country’s biggest indigenous reactor.

III The NPCIL has designed the 700 MWpressurised heay water reactor by scaling up the

two 540 MW once at Tarapur in Maharashtra.

IV The Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors use natural uranium as fuel and heavy water as both moderator and coolant.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

a) I, II, III and IV

b) I, II and III

c) II, III and IV

d) I, III and IV

Ans: A

68. Consider the following statements about joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC)

I The joint Parliamentary Committee is mandated to inquire into a specific subject.

II The joint Parliamentary Committee is constituted either through a motion adopted by one House and concurred by the other or through communication between the presiding officers of the two houses.

III The members are only elected by the presiding officer.

IV The first Joint Parliamentary Committee was constituted in the year 1987 to inquire in to the Bofors Contract.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

a) I, II and IV

 b) I, II and III

c) II, III and IV

d) I, III and IV

Ans: A

69. Endosulfan which was in news recently due to its disastrous effects in different parts of ?

a) Delhi

b) Maharashtra

c) Orissa

d) Kerala

Ans: D

70. Consider the following statements:

I Fast moving charged particles from the sun, known as solar winds.

II Solar winds are closely linked to solar sun spot cycle.

III Solar sun spot cycle is of 15 years.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a) I, II and III

b) I and II

c) I only

d) II only

Ans: B

71. With which country India have signed a MoU for establishing and operationalizing a Global Disease Detection Centre in New Delhi?

a) France

b) USA

c) Russia

d) China

Ans: B

72. The National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) is at?

a) Dehra Dun

b) Srinagar

c) Hyderabad

d) Chennai

Ans: D

73. International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) (an autonomous UN organization) is in?

a) New Delhi

b) Goa

c) Bangalore

d) Thiruvananthapuram

Ans: A

74. A new scheme called ‘Integrated Forest Protection Scheme’ has been formulated by merging

I Joint Forest Management

II Forest Fire Control and Management

III Bridging of Infra Structure Gaps in the Forestry Sector in the North Eastern Region and Sikkim.

IV. Social Forestry and Eco-Rehabilitation.

Select the answer from the code given below :

a) I and IV

b) II and III

c) I and III

d) II and IV

Ans: B

75. Bishnoi tribe is of:

a) Tamil Nadu

b) Himachal Pradesh

c) Rajasthan

d) Jharkhand

Ans: C

76. In Iran Nuclear Talk the P5+1 country are the international mediators in a settlement of Iran’s nuclear power problem. the P5 stands for the five permanent members of UN Security Council and the +1 country is

a) India

b) Japan

c) Germany

d) Italy

Ans: C

77. Reently with which country India has signed the Monsoon Agreement?

a) United State of America

b) China

c) South Korea

d) South Africa

Ans: A

78. Consider the following statements about Time Division Duplex Version (TDDV) :

I Recently this technology was for the first time successfully demonstrated by Nokia siemens Networks (NSN) in Mumbai.

II This technology runs on the broadband wireless access spectrum.

III This technology will herald the fourth generation (4G) in wireless communication space.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a) I, II and III

b) II and III

c) I only

d) III only

Ans: B

79. The ISRO plans to launch a satellite name Mega Tropiques with

a) United State of America

b) Russia

c) France

d) United Kingdom

Ans: C

80. What is Cloud Computing?

a) It is a newly developed Accounting Software by China.

b) It’s an online gaming zone.

c) It is a general term used for computing that involves delivering hosted servicing over the internet.

d) It is a technical term used for reposting someone else’s posts or tweets in Social network Sites.

Ans: C

81. Consider the following statements about Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

I Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is a version of Internet Protocol designed to succeed the 30 year old Internet Protocol Version 5 (IPv5)

II Internet Protocol Version 6 is an internet layer protocol for packet switched networking.

III The main driving force for redesign of the present Internet Protocol was the foreseeable address exhaustion.

IV IPv6 is developed by the Intel Inc.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

a) I, II, III and IV

b) I and III

c) I and IV

d) I, II and III

Ans: B

82. Match List I with List II

List - I

a) Protection of the Ozone Layer

b) Substance that deplete the Ozone Layer

c) Migratory Species of Wild Animal

d) Trans-boarder movement of Hazardous Wastes

and their Disposal

List – II

I) Basel Convention

II) Vienna Convention

III) Bonn Convention

IV) Montreal Protocol

     A    B    C    D

a)  II   IV   III    I

b)  IV  II    III    I

c)  IV  II    I      III

d)  II    IV  I      III

Ans: A

83. In the plant cells, Golgi cooplex is scatered in the cytoplasm in the form of small units called

a) Lysosomes

b) Peroxisomes

c) Dictyosomes

d) Ribosomes

Ans: C

84. Har Gobind Khorana’s work relates to

a) Synthesis of artificial gens

b) understanding the genetic code

c) Both a and b

d) Synthesis of RNA from bacterial cell

Ans: C

85. The DNA is composed of the nitrogen bases

a) adenine, cytosine, guanine, thymine

b) adenine, cytosine, uracil, guanine

c) uracil, adenine, cytosine, thymine

d) guanine, thymine, uracil, adenine

Ans: A

86. An element which is preserved under water is –

a) Sodium

b) Red Phosphorus

c) White Phosphorus

d) Sulphur

Ans: C

87. Which of the following substances efforescent?

a) NaHCO3

b) CaCo3

c) Na2CO3

d) Na2CO3 . 10H2O

Ans: D

88. When a swing is drawn to a side, its Potentian energy in relation to the earth

a) Increases

b) decreases

c) remains the same

d) is constant

Ans: A

89. One horse power is equal to

a) 625 watts

b) 816 watts

c) 746 watts

d) 520 watts

Ans: C

90. Match the following & choose the correct answer from the codes given below :

a) Kilogram Weight 1. Metre per second per second

b) Impulse 2. Velocity

c) 1/2 mv2 3. 9.8 newton

d) Acceteration 4. Kinetic energy

e) Meter per second 5. Newton – second

   A  B  C  D  E

a) 3  5  4   1   2

b) 5  3  2   4   1

c) 4  1   5  2   3

d) 3  2   1  4   5

Ans: A

91. Why did Buddhism start declining in India in the early medieval times?

1. Buddha was by that time consideredas one of the incarnations of Vishnu andthus became a part of Vaishnavism

2. The invading tribes from Central Asiatill the time of last Gupta king adopted Hinduism and persecuted Buddhists.

3. The Kings of Gupta dynasty were strongly, opposed to Buddhism.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a) 1 only

b) 1 and 3 only

c) 2 and 3 only

d) 1, 2 and 3

Ans: B

92. With reference to Simon Commission’s recommendations,which one of the following

statements is correct?

a) It recommended the replacement of diarchy with responsible government in the provinces.

b) It proposed the setting up of interprovincial council under the Home Department.

c) It suggested the abolition of bicameral legislature at the Centre.

d) It recommended the creation of Indian Police Service with a provision for increased pay and allowances for British recruits as compared to Indian recruits.

Ans: B

93. Four resolutions were passed at the famous Calcutta session of Indian National Congress in 1906. The question of either retention OR of rejection of these

four resolutions became the cause of a split in Congress at the next Congress session held in Surat in 1907.

Which one of the following was not one of those resolutions?

a) Annulment of partition of Bengal

b) Boycott

c) National education

d) Swadeshi

Ans: D

94. After Quit India Movement, C. Rajagopalachari issued a pamphlet entitled “The Way Out”. Which one of the following was a proposal in this pamphlet?

a) The establishment of a “War Advisory Council” composed of representatives of British India and the Indian States.

b) Reconstitution of the Central Executive Council in such a way that all its members, except the Governor General and the Commander - in –Chief should be Indian leader.

c) Fresh elections to the Central and Provincial Legislatures to be held at the end of 1945 and the Constitution making body to be convened as soon as possible.

d) A solution for the constitutional deadlock.

Ans: B

95. Who among the following Governor Generals created the Covenanted Civil Service of India which later came to be known as the Indian Civil Service?

a) Warren Hastings

b) Wellesley

c) Cornwallis

d) William Bentinck

Ans: D

96. What was the immediate cause for the launch of the Swadeshi movement?

a) The partition of Bengal done by Lord Curzon.

b) A sentence of 18 months rigorous imprisonment imposed on Lokmanya Tilak.

c) The arrest and deportation of Lala Lajpat Rai and Ajit Singh; and passing of the Punjab Colonization  Bill.

d) Death sentence pronounced on the Chapekar brothers.

Ans: A

97. Consider the following statements:

1. Dr. Rajendra Prasad persuaded Mahatma Gandhi to come to Champaran to investigate the problem of peasants.

2. Acharya J. B. Kriplani was one of Mahatma Gandhi’s colleagues in his Champaran investigation.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a) 1 only

b) 2 only

c) Both 1 and 2

d) Neither 1 nor 2

Ans: B

98. By a regulation in 1793, the District Collector was deprived of his judicial powers and made the collecting agent only. What was the reason for such regulation?

a) Lord Cornwallis felt that the District Collector’s efficiency of revenue collection would enormously increase without the burden of ‘other work.

b) Lord Cornwallis felt that Judicial power should compulsorily be in the hands of Europeans while Indians can be given the job of revenue collection in the districts.

c) Lord Cornwallis was alarmed at the extent of power concentrated in the District Collector and felt that such absolute power was undesirable in one person.

d) The judicial work demanded a deep knowledge of India and a good training in law and Lord Cornwallis felt that District Collector should be only a revenue collector.

Ans: B

99. Consider the following statements:

1. The “Bombay Manifesto” signed in 1936 openly opposed the preaching of socialist ideals.

2. It evoked support from a large section of business community from all across India.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

a) 1 only

b) 2 only

c) Both 1 and 2

d) Neither 1 nor 2

Ans: D

100. For the Karachi session of Indian National Congress in 1931 presided over by Sardar Patel, who drafted the Resolution on Fundamental Rights and Economic

Programme?

(a) Mahatma Gandhi

(b) Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

(c) Dr. Rajendra Prasad

(d) Dr. B. R. Ambedkar

Ans: B