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Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives and click the button corresponding to it.

The Alaska pipeline starts at the frozen edge of the Arctic Ocean. It stretches southward across the largest and northernmost state in the United States, ending at a remote ice-free seaport village nearly 800 miles from where it begins. It is massive in size and extremely complicated to operate. The steel pipe crosses windswept plains and endless miles of delicate tundra that tops the frozen ground. It weaves through crooked canyons, climbs sheer mountains, plunges over rocky crags, makes its way through thick forests, and passes over or under hundreds of rivers and streams. The pipe is 4 feet in diameter, and up to 2 million barrels (or 84 million gallons) of crude oil can be pumped through it daily. Resting on H-shaped steel racks called "bents", long sections of the pipeline follow a zigzag course high above the frozen earth. Other long sections drop out of sight beneath spongy or rocky ground and return to the surface later on. The pattern of the pipeline's up-and-down route is determined by the often harsh demands of the arctic and subarctic climate, the tortuous lay of the land, and the varied compositions of soil, rock, or permafrost (permanently frozen ground). A little more than half of the pipeline is elevated above the ground. The remainder is buried anywhere from 3 to 12 feet, depending largely upon the type of terrain and the properties of the soil. One of the largest in the world, the pipeline cost approximately $8 billion and is by far the biggest and most expensive construction project ever undertaken by private industry. In fact, no single business could raise that much money, so 8 major oil companies formed a consortium in order to share the costs. Each company controlled oil rights to particular shares of land in the oil fields and paid into the pipeline-construction fund according to the size of its holdings. Today, despite enormous problems of climate, supply shortage, equipment breakdowns, labour disagreements, treacherous terrain, a certain amount of mismanagement, and even theft, the Alaska pipeline has been completed and is operating.


Which of the following were not problems faced while constructing the pipeline?

A) Supply shortages B) Treacherous terrain
C) Lack of funds D) Equipment breakdown
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Lack of funds

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Find the missing number from the given response.

A) 58 B) 65
C) 64 D) 48
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 65

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Find the odd word/letters/number from the given alternatives.

A) BDF B) GIK
C) LMO D) OQS
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) LMO

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Who wrote the Indian historical fiction novel 'The Rise of Sivagami' published in March 2017?

A) Arundhati Roy B) Amish Tripathi
C) Devdutt Pattanaik D) Anand Neelakantan
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Anand Neelakantan

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The average of 12 numbers is 9. If each number is multiplied by 2 and added to 3, the average of the new set of numbers is

A) 9 B) 18
C) 21 D) 27
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) 21

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If x+5+1x+1=6 then the value of (x+1)3+1(x+1)3 is

A) 2 B) 0
C) -2 D) 4
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) 2

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In the following question, some part of the sentence may have errors. Find out which part of the sentence has an error and select the appropriate option. If a sentence is free from error, select 'No Error'.

 

Seldom we have been(A)/treated in such(B)/a rude manner.(C)/No error(D)

 

A) A B) B
C) C D) D
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) A

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In the following passage, some of the words have been left out. Read the passage carefully and select the correct answer for the given blank out of the four alternatives.

 

The chasm ______________ the needs of the people who struggle ______________ survival, action and inaction by representatives, and lack of remedial justice has compromised representative democracy _________________. Defections from one party to another indicate _______________ of the basic obligations of representatives, even ___________ their own people starve.

 

lack of remedial justice has compromised representative democracy _________________.

 

A) really B) superlatively
C) enormously D) too much
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: C) enormously

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