UPSC NDA II General Ability Test (30 June 2024)
Question 1:
Question 2:
Which medium is used by 'Radar' to detect aeroplanes?
विमानों का पता लगाने के लिए 'राडार' किस माध्यम का प्रयोग करता है?
Question 3:
Which of the following tributaries of Ganga river has a northward course-
गंगा नदी की निम्नांकित सहायक नदियों में से किसका मार्ग उत्तरमुखी है-
Question 4:
Match List-1 with List-11 and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists :
सूची-1 को सूची-11 से सुमेलित कीजिए तथा सूचियों के नीचे दिये गये कूट से सही उत्तर चुनिये :
Question 5:
Select the most appropriate ANTONYM of the word given in bold Capital letters.
Addiction of drugs proved DETRIMENTAL for his health.
Question 6:
In the given question, out of four alternatives, select the alternative which best expresses the meaning of the idiom/ phrase.
Give up the Ghost
Question 7:
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.
Which of these can be inferred from the passage?
Question 8:
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 9:
Mitochondria are capable of producing which of the following?
सूत्रकणिका (माइटोकॉण्ड्रिया) निम्नलिखित में से किसका उत्पादन करने में समर्थ हैं?
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.
Select the antonym of 'loathed' as used in the passage.