English, G.Science, S.Studies - 2018 - Paper-1

The given sentence is in indirect speech. So, no inverted commas are needed. Moreover, in indirect speech of interrogative sentences, question mark is not used at the end. It ends with a full stop.

'Shall' in indirect speech changes to 'would'. 'These' changes to 'those' and 'here' changes to 'there'.

In passive voice, subject changes to object and vice versa. So, 'me' (object) will change to 'I' (subject). Sometimes, the subject of active voice is omitted in passive voice. So, the correct answer is 'I was asked my name.' Options 1, 3 and 4 are grammatically incorrect.

A calamity is 'an event causing great and often sudden damage; a disaster'.

'Red Letter Day' means 'a special, happy, and important day that you will always remember'.

'Assets' means 'anything that has exchange value or benefit'. 'Liabilities' means 'something that works to one's disadvantage'. So, they are antonyms.

'Alumnus' refers to a male graduate or former student; and the plural of the same is 'alumni'.

'Alma Mater' is a school, college, or university where a person studied.

Distance is treated as a singular entity, which means 'is' should be used instead of 'are'.
So, the correct phrase will be 'ten miles is not'.

The meaningful sentence is: 'Never in the history of India was there a greater man than Mahatma Gandhi'.

To be 'in lieu of' something is to replace it or substitute it. Here, he accepted the car as a substitute or replacement for his claim.
'By dint of' means 'by means of' and 'on account of' means 'because of'. They do not fit the context.

The correct prefix for 'bitter' is 'em', as 'embitter' means 'to make someone feel bitter'.

'Slow' and 'sure' are in contrast. So, a word to highlight this contrast is to be used to fill the blank.
The most suitable answer is 'but'. Other options do not reflect a contrast.

Silver is found in impure state in the mines. 

'Fiasco' means 'a complete failure' and its opposite would be 'success'.

'Justly' is an adverb.
'Justify' is a verb.
'Justice' is an abstract noun.
There is no such thing as 'justing'.

'Requisite' means 'something necessary for a specific end'.

'Candid' means 'truthful and frank'.

'Meticulous' means 'very careful and precise' and 'careless' means 'not giving sufficient attention or thought to avoiding harm or errors'. So, the words are completely opposite to each other.

The word 'avert' means 'prevent or ward off or to avoid something'.

The adjective form of 'boast' is 'boastful', which means 'showing excessive pride and self-satisfaction in one's achievements'.

As per the context, the vehicles do not move about on their own for some unknown or mysterious reason. This indicates that they are moved by someone due to some specific reason.

The passage states, ''... move only because people want them to move in connection with the activities which the people are engaged in.''

The passage states, ''... because, in towns, activities mainly take place in buildings, traffic in towns is a 'function of buildings'.'' 'Traffic in towns' refers to the traffic problem in towns. To understand it, 'the 'buildings', which are the centres of human activity or social context, have to be examined.

'This line of reasoning' refers to the logic or manner in which the author has presented his argument or reasoning.

The filament is the part of the light bulb that produces light. Pure tungsten has some amazing properties including the highest melting point and greatest tensile strength out of all the metals. Because of these properties, it is the most commonly used material for light bulb filaments.

Hepatitis-B is caused due to Virus. The virus is passed from person to person through blood, semen or other body fluids. It does not spread by sneezing or coughing.

The production of an exact copy of an animal by asexual reproduction is known as cloning.
Cloning is the process of producing genetically identical individuals of an organism either naturally or artificially.

The device which is used to detect very small current flowing in an electric circuit is a galvanometer.
A galvanometer works as an actuator, by producing a rotary deflection, in response to electric current flowing through a coil in a constant magnetic field.

Amoeba is a unicellular organism which has no definite shape. The body of an amoeba is made from a single cell. If it wants to move somewhere, it can extend part of its body in the appropriate direction to form a temporary foot, or pseudopod.

A thermosetting polymer, resin, or plastic, often called a thermoset, is a polymer that is irreversibly hardened by curing from a soft solid or viscous liquid prepolymer or resin.
Melamine formaldehyde is a thermosetting plastic (or thermoset) that strengthens as it is heated during its preparation.

Solution of sulphur dioxide in water will change the colour of blue litmus to red because when sulphur dioxide gas dissolves in water, it forms an acid.

PCRA stands for 'Petroleum Conservation Research Association'. PCRA is a national government agency engaged in promoting conservation of petroleum products and energy efficiency in various sectors of economy.

An electrolyte is a substance that dissociates into ions in solution and acquires the capacity to conduct electricity. So, an electrolyte is a liquid that conducts current.

As the angle between two plane mirrors is decreasing gradually, the number of images of an object placed between them increases.
The formula to find the number of images of an object placed between two plane mirrors is:
Number of images = (360°/θ) - 1

The purest form of carbon is coal. The purest form of coal is anthracite and it can have up to 98% carbon.
There are three forms of pure carbon: graphite, coal and diamond. All three forms are made up of elemental carbon.

Value of one light year in S.I. unit is 9.46 × 10¹⁵ m. It is the distance that light can travel in one year.

In distilled water, there are no impurities and no ions; there are only neutral water molecules and these neutral molecules don't have any charge. So, distilled water does not conduct electricity.

II are small prokaryotes while I are large celled eukaryotes with defined mitochondria and other organelles.
Bacteria are prokaryotes, which consist of a single cell with a simple internal structure; and a fungus is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms.
Fungi reproduce asexually by fragmentation, budding, or producing spores, and bacteria reproduce by binary fission.

When the applied force is doubled and the object is still at rest, then friction becomes doubled. Until the force of static friction is overcome and the object begins to move, it pushes back with the exact same force that is applied. So, if the force is doubled on it and it doesn't move, that means static friction gets doubled also.

Acid rain is caused by a chemical reaction that begins when compounds like sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are released into the air.

Hoe is a simple tool used for removing weeds from the field and loosening the soil. It works like a blade, pulled by the animals in the field.

Viruses are the smallest micro-organisms which can develop only inside the cell of the host organism. They do not respire, feed, grow, excrete or move on their own, but they can reproduce. When they are outside the living cell, they behave as non-living.

Vulcanisation is a chemical process used to harden rubber. This is the treatment of natural rubber with sulphur.

The standard value of atmospheric pressure is 760 mm of Hg, which is 76 cm of Hg.

The sound from a mosquito is produced when it vibrates its wings at an average rate of 500 vibrations per second. The time period of vibration is 0.002 s. The time required to complete one vibration is known as time period.

The change in focal length of an eye lens to focus the image of objects at varying distances is done by the action of ciliary muscles. Muscles in the ciliary body enable the flexible lens to alter its shape and allow the eye to focus on objects at varying distances.

Mitochondria are called the power house of a cell because they carry out the process of aerobic respiration and generate the energy molecules for cell operation.

The dramatic changes in body features associated with puberty are mainly because of the secretions of estrogen and testosterone. Estrogen and testosterone are responsible for the development and regulation of the reproductive system in boys and girls.

Venus rotates in the opposite direction of Earth, that's why the directions of sunrise and sunset will also be opposite.

Siraj ud-Daulah became the Nawab of Bengal after the death of Alivardi Khan in 1756 AD at the age of 23. He was the grandson of Alivardi Khan.

The full form of FIR is First Information Report. It is the information recorded by a police officer on duty given either by the aggrieved person or by any other person to the commission of an alleged offence.

Membership of Rajya Sabha is limited by the constitution to a maximum of 250 members, and current laws have provision for 245 members only, of which 233 are elected from states and union territories, and 12 are nominated by the President.
So, there are 233 MPs elected to the Rajya Sabha.

Agenda-setting theory describes the ability to influence the importance placed on the topics of the public agenda. With agenda-setting being a social science theory, it also attempts to make predictions.

The process in which different crops are grown in alternate rows and sown at different times to protect the soil from rainwash is known as intercropping.

(1) 'Diwani' rights allowed the Company to collect revenue directly from the people of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.
(2) 'Faujdari Adalat' refers to criminal court.
(3) The Subsidiary Alliance was introduced by Lord Wellesley.

In subsistence farming, crops are grown mainly for the farmer's family needs. Subsistence agriculture is a self-sufficiency farming system.

Biotic resources are obtained from the biosphere (living and organic material), such as forests and animals, and the materials that can be obtained from them. Fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum are also included in this category because they are formed from decayed organic matter.

Secularism is the principle of the separation of government institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institutions and religious dignitaries.

Events with the years they occurred in:
Rowlatt Satyagraha - 1919
The Non-cooperation Movement - 1920-22
The March to Dandi - 1930
Quit India Movement - 1942.

Young Bengal Movement was launched by Henry Louis Vivian Derozio. It was a group of radical Bengali freethinkers emerging from Hindu College, Calcutta. They were also known as Derozians, after their firebrand teacher, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, at Hindu College.

'Acquit' refers to the court declaring that a person is not guilty of the crime which he/she was tried for by the court. It means 'free (someone) from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty'.

Lucknow - Begum Hazrat Mahal
Bihar (Jagdishpur) - Kunwar Singh

Chile is the world's largest producer of copper (around 5,750,000 tonnes per year), followed by China (1,760,000 tonnes per year) and Peru (around 1,380,000 tonnes per year).

AMUL stands for Anand Milk Union Limited. It is an Indian dairy cooperative, based at Anand in the state of Gujarat.

There are total five permanent members (China, France, Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and ten non-permanent members in the United Nations Security Council.

Nij cultivation was one of the systems of indigo cultivation. In this system, the planter produced indigo on those lands which were under his direct control. The planter either bought the land or rented it from other zamindars. He directly employed labourers to produce indigo.

Obtaining sugar from sugarcane is a secondary activity. All the other given activities are either primary or tertiary activities.
The secondary sector of the economy manufactures finished goods. All of manufacturing, processing, and construction lie within the secondary sector.

Soils are formed through the interaction of five major factors: Time, Climate, Parent material, Topography and relief, and Organisms.

The decision to effect the partition of Bengal was announced on July 19, 1905 by the Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon.

The leaders of the Khilafat agitation were Ali brothers: Mohammad Ali and his brother Maulana Shaukat Ali.
The Khilafat Movement (1919-1924) was an agitation by Indian Muslims allied with Indian nationalism in the years following World War I.

Right to property is not a fundamental right of citizens of India. The Constitution guarantees six fundamental rights to Indian citizens as follows: (i) right to equality, (ii) right to freedom, (iii) right against exploitation, (iv) right to freedom of religion, (v) cultural and educational rights, and (vi) right to constitutional remedies.

To complain about the problem of hygiene & sanitation, a person living in a big city should go to Municipal Corporation. A Municipal Corporation is to govern cities with a population of more than 1,00,000 people.

The Supreme Court of India came into existence on 26 January, 1950. It is located on Tilak Marg, New Delhi.

Dargah refers to the tomb of a Sufi Saint. A Dargah is a shrine built over the grave of a revered religious figure, often a Sufi Saint or dervish.