GATE EE year:2017 PYQs & Answers — Page 13

Questions 121–130 of 130. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.

“The hold of the nationalist imagination on our colonial past is such that anything inadequately or improperly nationalist is just not history.”

Which of the following statements best reflects the author’s opinion?

Your answerChoose one option.

Nationalists are highly imaginative.

History is viewed through the filter of nationalism.

Our colonial past never happened.

Nationalism has to be both adequately and properly imagined.

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“We lived in a culture that denied any merit to literary works, considering them important only when they were handmaidens to something seemingly more urgent – namely ideology. This was a country where all gestures, even the most private, were interpreted in political terms.”

The author’s belief that ideology is not as important as literature is revealed by the word:

Your answerChoose one option.

‘culture’

‘seemingly’

‘urgent’

‘political’

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Six people are seated around a circular table. There are at least two men and two women. There are at least three right-handed persons. Every woman has a left-handed person to her immediate right. None of the women are right-handed. The number of women on the table is

Your answerChoose one option.

Cannot be determined

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There are three boxes. One contains apples, another contains oranges and the last one contains both apples and oranges. All three are known to be incorrectly labelled. If you are permitted to open just one box and then pull out and inspect only one fruit, which box would you open to determine the contents of all three?

Your answerChoose one option.

The box labelled ‘Apples’

The box labelled ‘Apples and Oranges’

The box labelled ‘Oranges’

Cannot be determined

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The expression

is equal to

Your answerChoose one option.

the maximum of

and

the minimum of

and

none of the above

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X is a 30 digit number starting with the digit 4 followed by the digit 7. Then the number

will have

Your answerChoose one option.

90 digits

91 digits

92 digits

93 digits

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Arun, Gulab, Neel and Shweta must choose one shirt each from a pile of four shirts coloured red, pink, blue and white respectively: Arun dislikes the colour red and Shweta dislikes the colour white. Gulab and Neel like all the colours. In how many different ways can they choose the shirts so that no one has a shirt with a colour he or she dislikes?

Your answerChoose one option.

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The number of roots of

in the range

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A contour line joins locations having the same height above the mean sea level. The following is a contour plot of a geographical region. Contour lines are shown at 25 m intervals in this plot. If in a flood, the water level rises to 525 m, which of the villages P, Q, R, S, T get submerged?

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Your answerChoose one option.

P, Q

P, Q, T

R, S, T

Q, R, S

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An air pressure contour line joins locations in a region having the same atmospheric pressure. The following is an air pressure contour plot of a geographical region. Contour lines are shown at 0.05 bar intervals in this plot.

If the possibility of a thunderstorm is given by how fast air pressure rises or drops over a region, which of the following regions is most likely to have a thunderstorm?

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