MPSC TEST SERIES 26

4. The Planets that have no natural satellites are ________.

a) Mercury and Venus
b) Earth and Mars
c) Jupiter and Saturn
d) Uranus and Neptune

9. Asteroids have their orbits between the planets ________

a) Mercury and Venus
b) Earth and Mars
c) Mars and Jupiter
d) Jupiter and Saturn

10. The planet with the maximum number of satellites is ________.

a) Uranus
b) Jupiter
c) Saturn
d) Neptune

11. The outermost layer of Sun is called ________

a) Convection zone
b) Photosphere
c) Chromosphere
d) Corona

Direction for Questions No. 13 – 17 : Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to each of the questions out of the four alternatives.It is strange that, according to his position in life, an extravagant man is admired or despised.A successful businessman does nothing to increase his popularity by being careful with his money. He is expected to display his success,to have a smart car, an expensive 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 if he had not been careful with his money in the first place, he would never have achieved his present wealth. Among the low income groups, a different set of values exists.The young clerk who makes his wife a present of a new dress when he hadn’t paid his house rent, is condemned as extravagant. Carefulness with money to the point of meanness 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 house keeping 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 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, then I am the meanest man imaginable.

13. In the opinion of the writer, a successful businessman

(a) is more popular if he appears to be doing nothing
(b) should not bother about his popularity
(c) must be extravagant before achieving success
(d) is expected to have expensive tastes

14. The phrase ‘lavish with his hospitality’ signifies

(a) miserliness in dealing with his friends
(b) considerateness in spending on guests and strangers
(c) extravagance in entertaining guests
(d) indifference in treating his friends and relatives

Direction for Questions No. 58 – 61 : Read the following passage carefully and choose the best answer to each of the questions out of the four alternatives. Many of the underdeveloped countries will promote the growth of their economies in one way or another no matter whether they receive substantial outside aid in the process or not. The character of that development, however, is likely to be strongly influenced by the types and amounts of aid available. The outcome is much more likely to be favourable, from the stand point of the objectives for successful development set up previously, if there is substantial international aid than if there is not.By substantial aid I mean not only large amounts of technical assistance but also of capital. Initially,the capacity of an underdeveloped country to use capital productivity may be surprisingly small-limited by lack of organization, trained personnel and other social obstacles.At this stage, technical assistance is its mainneed from outside, with comparatively small amounts of capital, much of which may have to be in the  form of grants for non self-liquidating projects in education, health, access roads to rural areas, and the like. If, at this stage,substantial capital is available from outside supplement what can be formed internally (and to stimulate internal capital formation, for it does that too) the rate of economic growth can be considerably increased, and the strains and frustrations and political risks of the development process are likely to be considerably less. In the absence of outside aid the only way to accumulate capital is to increase production without taking much of the benefit in more consumption, or even while pushing consumption standards down. Where the people are already near the subsistence level this may mean extreme hardship. Somehow the people must be motivated to change their accustomed ways quickly to work hard and to forego present consumption so that capitals can be made.

18. Substantial aid in this context means

(a) technical assistance in the form of trained personnel

(b) capital in the form of bank loans and overdrafts

(c) large amounts of technical assistance and Capital

(d) a cheap and plentiful supply of labour

20. Choose the word which is closest in meaning to ‘subsistence’ as used in the passage

(a) sustenance
(b) ignorance
(c) substantial
(d) subside