UPSC NDA II General Ability Test (30 June 2024)
Question 1:
Who was recently elected as the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh?
हाल ही में मध्य प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री के रूप में किसे चुना गया ?
Question 2:
Directions - In the following questions, the sentence given with a blank to be filled in with an appropriate word. Select the correct alternative out of the four and indicate it by selecting the appropriate option.
The manager was……….... an explanation of his conduct.
Question 3:
In the context of Indian freedom struggle, who were the Khudai Khidmatgars?
भारतीय स्वतंत्रता संग्राम के संदर्भ में, खुदाई खिदमतगार कौन थे?
Question 4:
Directions :- Each of the following items features one part of a sentence, followed by four alternatives. Complete the sentence by choosing the correct alternative and mark you answer accordingly
This lock will not open unless
Question 5:
Where is the 'Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute' located?
भारतीय चारागाह एवं चारा अनुसंधान संस्थान' कहाँ पर स्थित है?
Question 6:
Which of the following is not inscribed on the seal of Pashupati obtained from Mohenjodaro?
मोहनजोदड़ों से प्राप्त पशुपति की मुहर पर निम्न में कौन अंकित नहीं है?
Question 7:
Ram records the odometer reading of his car as 2000 km at the start of the journey and 2400 km at the end of the journey after 8 hours. What is the average speed of the car?
राम अपनी कार के पथमापी पाठ्यांक (ओडोमीटर रीडिंग) में अपनी यात्रा के आरम्भ में 2000 किमी और 8 घण्टे के बाद यात्रा की समाप्ति पर निर्धारित की गई दूरी 2400 किमी रिकॉर्ड करता है। कार की औसत चाल क्या है?
Question 8:
Nameri Tiger Reserve is located in which state of India?
नामेरी टाइगर रिजर्व, भारत के किस राज्य में स्थित है?
Question 9:
Directions :- In this section, there is a passsge having some blank spaces, each blank space is followed by four alternatives or words. Select a word or group of words you consider the most appropriate for filling the blank space, and indicate your response.
The working of the stomach was (1) ………….. by a strange accident. In 1822, a man named Alexis St. Martin was (2) ……………. hit by a shot gun. The bullet had seriously (3) ………… the chest wall and made a hole in
(4) …………… stomach. He was brought to an American army (5) …………. William Beaumont.
The doctor saved the patient but he (6) ………… not close the hole properly. Beaumont took it as a (7) …………… opportunity to see the inside of the stomach (8) ………. the hole. He made some wonderful observations. Beaumont (9) …….…….. that the stomach was churning food. Its wall secreted a fluid (10) …………. could digest the food. He also observed that the end of the stomach opens into the intestine only after the digestion of the food inside the stomach is completed.
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Question 10:
Directions :- Read the following passage carefully and answer the items based on it. You are required to select your answers based solely on the contents of the passage and the opinion of the author.
A fact that draws our attention is that, according to his position in life, an extravagant man is either admired or loathed. A successful business man does nothing to increase his popularity by being prudent with his money. A person who is wealthy is expected to lead a luxurious life and to be lavish with his hospitality. If he is not so, he is considered mean, and his reputation in business may even suffer in consequence. The paradox remains that he had not been careful with his money in the first place; he would never have achieved his present wealth. Among the low income group, a different set of values exists. The young clerk, who makes his wife a present of a new dress when he has not paid his house rent, is condemned as extravagant. Carefulness with money to the point of meanness is applauded as a virtue. is applauded as a virtue.
Nothing in his life is considered more worthy than paying his bills. The ideal wife for such a man separates her housekeeping money into joyless little piles - so much for rent, for food, for the children's shoes, she is able to face the milkman with equanimity every month, satisfied with her economizing ways, and never knows the guilt of buying something she can't really afford. As for myself, I fall into neither of these categories. If I have money to spare I can be extravagant, but when, as is usually the case, I am hard up and then I am the meanest man imaginable.
The word 'equanimity' in the passage means