Saturday, 4 August 2012

TNPSC Group-V (CSSE-I) Exam 2003- Original Question Paper-Part 7

TNPSC Group-V (CSSE-I) Exam 2003- Original Question Paper-Part 7


151. Identify the correct degree:
         Meenakshi Amman temple is one of the most famous temples.
A)    Comparative degree
B)    None of (A), (C) & (D)
C)    Positive degree
D)    Superlative degree
        
         Answer: D

152. Identify the Simple sentence:
A)    If you don’t have pain, don’t take this tablet.
B)    In the event of pain, take this tablet
C)    If you have pain, take this tablet
D)    If she has pain, she can take this tablet

Answer: B

153. Identify the Simple sentence:
A)    I was glad to hear her success
B)    I heard of her success and I was glad.
C)    I was glad to heard her success
D)    I heard of her success and I am glad

Answer: A

154. Identify the Compound sentence:
A)    After the sun sets the stars appeared.
B)    After the sun had set the stars appeared.
C)    The sun had set and the stars appeared
D)    Before the stars appeared the sun had set.

Answer: C
155. Identify the Complex sentence:
A)    As she was busy, she could not attend the function.
B)    She was busy and so she could not attend the function.
C)    Being busy, she did not attend the function.
D)    She attended the function.

Answer: A

156. Select the correct question tag:
         Those boys talk Telugu……….?
A)    are they
B)    aren’t they
C)    don’t they
D)    didn’t they

Answer: C

157. Find the singular form for ‘Advice’
A)    Advice
B)    Advices
C)    Advise
D)    Advised

Answer: A

158. Find the sentence pattern and select the correct code:
         ‘The students elected him the leader’.
A)    S.V.O.C
B)    S.O.V.I.D
C)    S.V.O
D)    S.O.V.I.D.D.O

Answer: A
159. Fin the Plural for ‘proceeds’:
A)    Proceeds
B)    Proceed
C)    Proseed
D)    None of these

Answer: A

160. Find the sentence pattern and select the correct code: ‘John ate the mango quickly’.
A)    S.V.O.C
B)    S.V.O.A
C)    S.V.O.I.O.
D)    S.V.O.I.D.O.D

Answer: B

161. Select the correct voice from of the Verb:
         The optimism of the jeweler …………. By the furriers.
A)    shared
B)    shares
C)    will share
D)    was shared

Answer: D

162. Select the correct voice form of the verb:
         My uncle ……………. me a camera.
A)    presenting
B)    was presented
C)    is presented
D)    has presented

Answer: D

163. Select the correct voice form of the verb:
         The film actor ………….. by the youths.
A)    is welcomed
B)    welcomes
C)    welcome
D)    are welcomed

Answer: A

164. Select the correct Voce form of the Verb:
         The ball …………… by the boy.
A)    chasing
B)    will chase
C)    is being chased
D)    may chase.

Answer: C

165. Select the correct Voice form of the Verb:
         Gutka …………. by Tamil Nadu Government.
A)    was banned
B)    bans
C)    banned
D)    will ban

Answer: A

166. Identify the correct degree:
         Akbar was mightier than most other kings
A)    Superlative Degree
B)    Positive Degree
C)    Comparative degree
D)    None of these

Answer: C

167. Identify the Comparative degree:
A)    A peacock dances better than an ostrich
B)    Peacock is the most beautiful bird.
C)    No other bird dances so good as peacock.
D)    Ostrich is a beautiful dancer.

Answer: A

168. Identify the positive degree:
A)    Monika is cleverer than any other girl in the class.
B)    Monika is the cleverest girl in the class
C)    Monika is cleverer than any other boy in the class
D)    No other girl in the class is so clever as Monika

Answer: D

169. Identify the correct degree:
         Abdul is one of the laziest boys in the class.
A)    Positive degree
B)    Superlative degree
C)    Comparative degree
D)    None of these

Answer: B

170. Identify the degree and choose the correct answer:
         No other vegetable is so bitter as bitter gourd.
A)    Comparative degree
B)    Superlative degree
C)    Positive degree
D)    None of these

Answer: C

171. Fill in the blank with a suitable Article:
         After ……………. Hour the photographer took photos.
A)    a
B)    the
C)    an
D)    none

Answer: C

172. Fill in the blank with a suitable Article:
         War is …………… negation of the truth and humanity.
A)    the
B)    an
C)    a
D)    none

Answer: C

173. Find out the error:
         School   is   very near   my house
               A        B            C                  D
        
         Answer: B

174. Comprehension:
The African elephants differ from Indian elephants. They live in herds in the jungles and are naturally shy animal that keep away from men. They are found in India and in Africa.
“Elephants are …………. animals".
A)    domestic
B)    wild
C)    bold
D)    shy

         Answer: B

175. Comprehension:      
A king besieged a city for a long time. After a brave defence the people had to surrender. The king sent a message into the town.
“The people had to surrender after …………… defence”.
A)    wild
B)    timid
C)    bold
D)    great

Answer: C

TNPSC Group-V (CSSE-I) Exam 2003- Original Question Paper-Part 8


TNPSC Group-V (CSSE-I) Exam 2003- Original Question Paper-Part 8

176. Comprehension:
Potatoes can be cooked in different ways-boiling, baking, roasting and frying. Boiling is a method. While we bake, generally we do not peel them and keep them in an oven.
In baking, we do not ……………. Potatoes.
A)    strip
B)    cover
C)    clothe
D)    boil

Answer: D

177. Comprehension:
Patel’s life more or less ordinary. The family was wealthy, His brother was a lawyer and Patel wanted to become a lawyer like his brother. His father was an ordinary man. Patel had courage and determination.
“The source of his ambition is his …………..”
A)    father
B)    sister
C)    brother
D)    mother

Answer: C

178. Identify the sentence pattern:
         Faruk attends the mass daily.
A)    S.V.O.C
B)    S.V.O.A
C)    S.O.V
D)    S.V.C

Answer: B

179. Identify the sentence pattern:
         The war lasted seven years.
A)    S.V.C
B)    S.V.A
C)    S.V.O
D)    S.V.O.A

Answer: B

180. Identify the sentence pattern:
         We painted the house blue.
A)    S.V.O.A
B)    S.V.O.C
C)    S.V.O.
D)    S.V.I.O.D.O.

Answer: B

181. Select the correct word (Prefix) :
A)    delightful
B)    childish
C)    co-operate
D)    scholarship

Answer: C

182. Select the correct word (Prefix)
A)    making
B)    arrival
C)    disappear
D)    careful

Answer: C

183. Select the correct word (Suffix):
A)    enact
B)    unfortune
C)    scholarship
D)    forget

Answer: B

184. Find out the error:
         Mala knows ins and outs of that matter
                   A                     B              C         D
        
         Answer: B

185. Find out the error:
         Ravi’s father   is   a Engineer   in Madras
                    A             B             C                     D
        
         Answer: C

186. Find out the error:
         A bird   in the hand   is worth   two in a bush
              A                   B                 C                     D
        
         Answer: B

187. Find out the error:
         He   don’t know   but   I do
          A              B              C        D

         Answer: B

188. Choose the correct ‘Antonym’ for the underlined word from the options given below:
         There was a certain pride in his manners
A)    dignity
B)    humility
C)    strangeness
D)    ugliness

Answer: B

189. Choose the correct ‘Antonym’ for the underlined word from the options given below:
         Just contract the face.
A)    decorate
B)    expand
C)    increase
D)    show

Answer: B

190. Choose the correct ‘Antonym’ for the underlined word from the options given below:
         They haven’t indicated him.
A)    responded
B)    praised
C)    freed
D)    declared

Answer: C

191. Choose the correct ‘Synonym’ for the underlined word from the options given below:
         Ravi wanted something that would depict his face as Heaven gave it to him.
A)    portray
B)    draw
C)    spoil
D)    beautiful

Answer: A

192. Choose the correct ‘Synonym’ for the underlined word from the options given below:
         Raju was exhausted after a long journey.
A)    tired
B)    ill
C)    brisk
D)    dull

Answer: A

193. Select the correct word with a ‘Suffix’:
A)    fear
B)    fearless
C)    feared
D)    fears

Answer: B
194. Name the correct tense of the underlined word:
         Mohini will buy this house soon.
A)    Future continues
B)    Future
C)    Future perfect
D)    Future perfect continuous

Answer: B

195. Name the correct tense of the underlined word:
         When I came to clean the room, my brother had cleaned it already.
A)    Simple Past
B)    Present Perfect
C)    Past Perfect
D)    Past Perfect Continuous

Answer: C

196. Name the correct tense of the underlined word:
         Joseph had been living in Madras during the seventies.
         Amudha reads a novel.
A)    Present Continuous
B)    Simple Past
C)    Simple Present
D)    Past Perfect
Answer: C

198. Name the correct tense of the underlined word:
         Booma has been running a student’s hostel since 1980.
A)    Present
B)    Present Perfect Continuous
C)    Past
D)    Past Perfect Continuous

Answer: B

199. Change the following Adjective into Adverb:
         ‘Quick’
A)    quickly
B)    quick
C)    quicklier
D)    quicked

Answer: A

200. Change the following Adjective into Adverb:
         ‘hard’
A)    hardly
B)    harder
C)    hard
D)    harded

Answer: A

Quotable Quote-Message of the Day

Kind words can be short & easy to speak…their echoes are truly endless. 

Friday, 3 August 2012

Qoutable Quote-Message of the Day

“In life, we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unkept promise, an unheard request, an irreplaceable loss, an unreachable dream and unforgettable love. Still life is about being happy anyhow because its all summed up in THREE Words “ LIFE GOES ON”

Thursday, 2 August 2012

Free Essays for Competitive Exams-Largest Solar Telescope in the World


Largest Solar Telescope in the World

The sun’s atmosphere is an ideal place to study and test many magneto-hydro-dynamic (MHD) processes controlling turbulent plasma. Some of the finest solar features can be resolved with state-of-the-art telescope. Ladakh, the cold desert in the country, will have the world’s largest state-of-the-art solar telescope on the earth soon for this purpose. This National Largest Solar Telescope (NLST) will be set up at high altitude Pongong Tso Lake Merak near Line of Actual Control on the Sino-Indian divide. It will be unique globally because the largest solar telescope, the Mc-Math-Pierce Solar Telescope, in the world at present is 1.6 meters. It is situated in Kitt Peak national Observatory at Arizona in the United States. The NLST will have the reputation of being the world’s largest telescope till 2020. It is expected that a larger telescope may become operational in the US by 2020-2021.
NLST is a Gregorian multi-purpose open telescope. It will be on-axis with the provision of carrying out night time stellar observations using a spectrograph. It will be able to study particles spread across 50 kilometers of the sun. It is expected to resolve features on the sun of the size  of about 0.1 arcsec. The focal plane instruments are to include a high resolution polarimetric package to measure polarization with an accuracy of 0.01 %, a high spectral resolution spectrograph to obtain spectra in 5 widely separated absorption lines simultaneously and high spatial resolution narrow band image in various lines.
Modalities
The telescope will be fitted with a 2 meter reflector which will enable scientists to carry out cutting edge research to understand the fundamental processes taking place on the earth. The design is by an international company which also designed the 1.5 meter telescope located at Tenarife Island in Spain. All the telescope’s instruments will be developed by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) and will be remotely operated through the master control facility at Bangalore. The link will be through a satellite which will be provided by the Indian Satellite Research Organisation (ISRO). Night-time observations will be made using an instrument which will be built in collaboration with the University of Hamburg, Germany.

Scientific Objectives

Scientists will study the sun’s microscopic structure, and long term changes in the earth’s climate and environment. This will provide useful data to carry out research in order to minimize or remove disruptions to communication network and satellite due to periodic solar-winds.
The telescope will address the fundamental question about the nature of solar magnetism. It will aim to resolve flux tubes and measure their strength; address the development of magnetic fields on the sun which are responsible for almost all the observation phenomena on the sun. They include solar dynamo, solar cycle and solar variability that determine and control space weather.
Other scientific observations are: –
Magnetohydrodynamics(MHD) waves by resolving small structures and determining periods of oscillations which may be responsible to transport the energy to upper atmosphere of the sun:
1.      Dynamic evolution of small scale structures by making high cadence observations;
2.      Evolution of active regions and their role in triggering solar flare, prominences filament eruptions, CMEs, etc;
3.      Thermodynamics of the chromospheres by making the observations in the infrared wavelengths; and
4.      Weak and turbulent magnetic field measurements using Hanle effect which are as important as strong magnetic fields.
All these data will be gathered by making observations with high spatial resolution using adaptive optics, high spectral resolution, high temporal resolutions, multi-wave length capability of imaging and spectroscopy focal plane instruments, high photon flux and sensitivity of the detectors and using the infrared part of the spectrum for observations.
The telescope will utilize an innovative design with a low number of reflections to obtain a high throughput and low instrumental polarization. High order adaptive optics is integrated into the design that works with a modest Fried’s parameter of 7 cm to give diffraction limited performance. The telescope will be equipped with a suit of post focus instruments including a high resolution spectrograph and a polarimeter.

Selection of the Site
To install the telescope, the Indian Institute of Astrophysics studied two other sites-Hanle, Leh and Devasthal near Nainital in Uttarakhand but eventually opted for Merak in Ladakh.The cloudless skies and low atmospheric water vapour have made it one of the best sites in the world  for optical, submilimeter and millimeter wavelengths.
The site has been selected after carefully studying various scientific and environmental aspects. The site characterization has been done using the sun photometer, S-DIMM and SHABAR techniques to determine the seeing condition. SHABAR or Shadow Band Radiometer is a simple yet elegant way to probe the turbulence profile of the lower atmosphere. It observes scintillation of an extended object such as the sun or the Moon with an array of photo detectors. S-DIMM is Solar Differential Image Motion Monitor.
The Himalayan regions provide certain atmospheric conditions required for such telescope functioning. It provides a large number of clear hours for making observations with very good visibility. The water vapour in the field is also low which helps making observations in infrared wavelength for high accuracy of magnetic field and velocity measurements. The lake side provides better seeing condition. Because of lake water, there is extremely low water vapor content and this is unaffected by the monsoon.
The NLST project is a major multi-party initiative involving IIA, ISRO, Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). The project will involve an investment of over Rs 250 crore, most of which will go in procuring equipment.

Quotable Quote-Message of the Day

Don’t mix your words with your mood, because you will have many options to change the mood. BUT you will never get any options to replace the spoken words.

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Quotable Quote-Message of the Day

HAPPINESS has Unique Arithmetic, There More you Divide it, There More it Multiplies! BE HAPPY.