General Knowledge Mock Test - Territorial Army Preparation

What is revealed by ‘mother bird removing the eggshells’?

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

It is often believed that human behaviour is pre-determined by factors of nature, as some very prominent anthropologists and everyday people say. It is stated that political conservatives have sometimes favoured genetic explanations of behaviour and example of genetics would be a mother bird that removes the eggshells from the nest after the chicks have hatched. The mother bird does this because the outside of the eggshell is camouflaged and once hatched the inside is revealed which is not camouflaged. The broken eggshells will be seen by predators and will endanger the entire nest. Throwing out the broken pieces is an automatic response favoured by natural selection because birds that practice this behaviour have more surviving offspring.

What do you understand by the term ‘camouflaged’ in the passage?

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

It is often believed that human behaviour is pre-determined by factors of nature, as some very prominent anthropologists and everyday people say. It is stated that political conservatives have sometimes favoured genetic explanations of behaviour and example of genetics would be a mother bird that removes the eggshells from the nest after the chicks have hatched. The mother bird does this because the outside of the eggshell is camouflaged and once hatched the inside is revealed which is not camouflaged. The broken eggshells will be seen by predators and will endanger the entire nest. Throwing out the broken pieces is an automatic response favoured by natural selection because birds that practice this behaviour have more surviving offspring.

What is the theme of the passage?

Directions: Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

It is often believed that human behaviour is pre-determined by factors of nature, as some very prominent anthropologists and everyday people say. It is stated that political conservatives have sometimes favoured genetic explanations of behaviour and example of genetics would be a mother bird that removes the eggshells from the nest after the chicks have hatched. The mother bird does this because the outside of the eggshell is camouflaged and once hatched the inside is revealed which is not camouflaged. The broken eggshells will be seen by predators and will endanger the entire nest. Throwing out the broken pieces is an automatic response favoured by natural selection because birds that practice this behaviour have more surviving offspring.

Fill blank (iii).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Many people have sacrificed their lives to ___(i)___ the thirst for knowledge and to satisfy their ___(ii)___. In the olden days people used to worship sun and moon thinking them to be ___(iii)___ heav­enly bodies. But the scientific investigation had ___(iv)___ that sun is an ordinary star and earth is a planet like other planets. After this, man entered the age of the space travel. The invention of rocket was the first step in space travel. Scientists had already ___(v)___ that there was neither air nor water on the moon. The moon was the first ___(vi)___ of man. A spaceship travel­ling at a speed of 4000 kms per hour can ___(vii)___ this distance in 10 hours. The scientists had ___(viii)___ discovered that the surface of moon was rough and full of craters, rocks and mountains. Scientists now are trying to find out whether there is life on Mars and they are planning to ___(ix)___ it also. Many centuries after that space travel would be taken as an ___(x)___ by the rich people of the world who can afford a huge amount for satiating their whims.

Fill blank (x).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Many people have sacrificed their lives to ___(i)___ the thirst for knowledge and to satisfy their ___(ii)___. In the olden days people used to worship sun and moon thinking them to be ___(iii)___ heav­enly bodies. But the scientific investigation had ___(iv)___ that sun is an ordinary star and earth is a planet like other planets. After this, man entered the age of the space travel. The invention of rocket was the first step in space travel. Scientists had already ___(v)___ that there was neither air nor water on the moon. The moon was the first ___(vi)___ of man. A spaceship travel­ling at a speed of 4000 kms per hour can ___(vii)___ this distance in 10 hours. The scientists had ___(viii)___ discovered that the surface of moon was rough and full of craters, rocks and mountains. Scientists now are trying to find out whether there is life on Mars and they are planning to ___(ix)___ it also. Many centuries after that space travel would be taken as an ___(x)___ by the rich people of the world who can afford a huge amount for satiating their whims.

Fill blank (vi).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Many people have sacrificed their lives to ___(i)___ the thirst for knowledge and to satisfy their ___(ii)___. In the olden days people used to worship sun and moon thinking them to be ___(iii)___ heav­enly bodies. But the scientific investigation had ___(iv)___ that sun is an ordinary star and earth is a planet like other planets. After this, man entered the age of the space travel. The invention of rocket was the first step in space travel. Scientists had already ___(v)___ that there was neither air nor water on the moon. The moon was the first ___(vi)___ of man. A spaceship travel­ling at a speed of 4000 kms per hour can ___(vii)___ this distance in 10 hours. The scientists had ___(viii)___ discovered that the surface of moon was rough and full of craters, rocks and mountains. Scientists now are trying to find out whether there is life on Mars and they are planning to ___(ix)___ it also. Many centuries after that space travel would be taken as an ___(x)___ by the rich people of the world who can afford a huge amount for satiating their whims.

Fill blank (ii).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Many people have sacrificed their lives to ___(i)___ the thirst for knowledge and to satisfy their ___(ii)___. In the olden days people used to worship sun and moon thinking them to be ___(iii)___ heav­enly bodies. But the scientific investigation had ___(iv)___ that sun is an ordinary star and earth is a planet like other planets. After this, man entered the age of the space travel. The invention of rocket was the first step in space travel. Scientists had already ___(v)___ that there was neither air nor water on the moon. The moon was the first ___(vi)___ of man. A spaceship travel­ling at a speed of 4000 kms per hour can ___(vii)___ this distance in 10 hours. The scientists had ___(viii)___ discovered that the surface of moon was rough and full of craters, rocks and mountains. Scientists now are trying to find out whether there is life on Mars and they are planning to ___(ix)___ it also. Many centuries after that space travel would be taken as an ___(x)___ by the rich people of the world who can afford a huge amount for satiating their whims.

Fill blank (viii).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Many people have sacrificed their lives to ___(i)___ the thirst for knowledge and to satisfy their ___(ii)___. In the olden days people used to worship sun and moon thinking them to be ___(iii)___ heav­enly bodies. But the scientific investigation had ___(iv)___ that sun is an ordinary star and earth is a planet like other planets. After this, man entered the age of the space travel. The invention of rocket was the first step in space travel. Scientists had already ___(v)___ that there was neither air nor water on the moon. The moon was the first ___(vi)___ of man. A spaceship travel­ling at a speed of 4000 kms per hour can ___(vii)___ this distance in 10 hours. The scientists had ___(viii)___ discovered that the surface of moon was rough and full of craters, rocks and mountains. Scientists now are trying to find out whether there is life on Mars and they are planning to ___(ix)___ it also. Many centuries after that space travel would be taken as an ___(x)___ by the rich people of the world who can afford a huge amount for satiating their whims.

Fill blank (v).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Many people have sacrificed their lives to ___(i)___ the thirst for knowledge and to satisfy their ___(ii)___. In the olden days people used to worship sun and moon thinking them to be ___(iii)___ heav­enly bodies. But the scientific investigation had ___(iv)___ that sun is an ordinary star and earth is a planet like other planets. After this, man entered the age of the space travel. The invention of rocket was the first step in space travel. Scientists had already ___(v)___ that there was neither air nor water on the moon. The moon was the first ___(vi)___ of man. A spaceship travel­ling at a speed of 4000 kms per hour can ___(vii)___ this distance in 10 hours. The scientists had ___(viii)___ discovered that the surface of moon was rough and full of craters, rocks and mountains. Scientists now are trying to find out whether there is life on Mars and they are planning to ___(ix)___ it also. Many centuries after that space travel would be taken as an ___(x)___ by the rich people of the world who can afford a huge amount for satiating their whims.

Fill blank (vii).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Many people have sacrificed their lives to ___(i)___ the thirst for knowledge and to satisfy their ___(ii)___. In the olden days people used to worship sun and moon thinking them to be ___(iii)___ heav­enly bodies. But the scientific investigation had ___(iv)___ that sun is an ordinary star and earth is a planet like other planets. After this, man entered the age of the space travel. The invention of rocket was the first step in space travel. Scientists had already ___(v)___ that there was neither air nor water on the moon. The moon was the first ___(vi)___ of man. A spaceship travel­ling at a speed of 4000 kms per hour can ___(vii)___ this distance in 10 hours. The scientists had ___(viii)___ discovered that the surface of moon was rough and full of craters, rocks and mountains. Scientists now are trying to find out whether there is life on Mars and they are planning to ___(ix)___ it also. Many centuries after that space travel would be taken as an ___(x)___ by the rich people of the world who can afford a huge amount for satiating their whims.

Fill blank (iv).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Many people have sacrificed their lives to ___(i)___ the thirst for knowledge and to satisfy their ___(ii)___. In the olden days people used to worship sun and moon thinking them to be ___(iii)___ heav­enly bodies. But the scientific investigation had ___(iv)___ that sun is an ordinary star and earth is a planet like other planets. After this, man entered the age of the space travel. The invention of rocket was the first step in space travel. Scientists had already ___(v)___ that there was neither air nor water on the moon. The moon was the first ___(vi)___ of man. A spaceship travel­ling at a speed of 4000 kms per hour can ___(vii)___ this distance in 10 hours. The scientists had ___(viii)___ discovered that the surface of moon was rough and full of craters, rocks and mountains. Scientists now are trying to find out whether there is life on Mars and they are planning to ___(ix)___ it also. Many centuries after that space travel would be taken as an ___(x)___ by the rich people of the world who can afford a huge amount for satiating their whims.

Fill blank (i).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Many people have sacrificed their lives to ___(i)___ the thirst for knowledge and to satisfy their ___(ii)___. In the olden days people used to worship sun and moon thinking them to be ___(iii)___ heav­enly bodies. But the scientific investigation had ___(iv)___ that sun is an ordinary star and earth is a planet like other planets. After this, man entered the age of the space travel. The invention of rocket was the first step in space travel. Scientists had already ___(v)___ that there was neither air nor water on the moon. The moon was the first ___(vi)___ of man. A spaceship travel­ling at a speed of 4000 kms per hour can ___(vii)___ this distance in 10 hours. The scientists had ___(viii)___ discovered that the surface of moon was rough and full of craters, rocks and mountains. Scientists now are trying to find out whether there is life on Mars and they are planning to ___(ix)___ it also. Many centuries after that space travel would be taken as an ___(x)___ by the rich people of the world who can afford a huge amount for satiating their whims.

Fill blank (ix).

Directions: Read the following passage having some numbered blanks.

Many people have sacrificed their lives to ___(i)___ the thirst for knowledge and to satisfy their ___(ii)___. In the olden days people used to worship sun and moon thinking them to be ___(iii)___ heav­enly bodies. But the scientific investigation had ___(iv)___ that sun is an ordinary star and earth is a planet like other planets. After this, man entered the age of the space travel. The invention of rocket was the first step in space travel. Scientists had already ___(v)___ that there was neither air nor water on the moon. The moon was the first ___(vi)___ of man. A spaceship travel­ling at a speed of 4000 kms per hour can ___(vii)___ this distance in 10 hours. The scientists had ___(viii)___ discovered that the surface of moon was rough and full of craters, rocks and mountains. Scientists now are trying to find out whether there is life on Mars and they are planning to ___(ix)___ it also. Many centuries after that space travel would be taken as an ___(x)___ by the rich people of the world who can afford a huge amount for satiating their whims.

Directions: In the question below, the first and the last (correctly ordered) sentences are numbered 1 and 6, respectively. The rest of the passage is split into four parts and named B, C, D and E. These four parts are not given in a proper order. Choose the correct combination from the given alternatives.

1. The video game industry began in 1971 with the release of the arcade game, Computer Space.
   B. Inspired by this success, the same year saw the introduction of video games to the home market with the release of the early video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey.
   C. The crash eventually came to an end with the success of Taito's Space Invaders, paving the way for the golden age of video arcade games.
   D. The following year, Atari, Inc. released the first commercially successful video game, Pong, the original arcade version of which sold over 19,000 arcade cabinets.
   E. However, both the arcade and home markets would be dominated by Pong clones, which flooded the market and led to the video game crash of 1977.
2. The game's success inspired arcade machines to become prevalent in mainstream locations such as shopping malls, traditional storefronts, restaurants and convenience stores during the golden age.