GATE XH-C5 area:general-aptitude PYQs & Answers — Page 4

Questions 31–40 of 60. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.

Rafi told Mary, “I am thinking of watching a film this weekend.” The following reports the above statement in indirect speech: Rafi told Mary that he ______ of watching a film that weekend.

Your answerChoose one option.

thought

is thinking

am thinking

was thinking

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Permit : ______ : : Enforce : Relax (By word meaning)

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Allow

Forbid

License

Reinforce

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Given a fair six-faced dice where the faces are labelled ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’, ‘4’, ‘5’, and ‘6’, what is the probability of getting a ‘1’ on the first roll of the dice and a ‘4’ on the second roll?

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A recent survey shows that 65% of tobacco users were advised to stop consuming tobacco. The survey also shows that 3 out of 10 tobacco users attempted to stop using tobacco.

Based only on the information in the above page, which one of the following options can be logically inferred with certainty?

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A majority of tobacco users who were advised to stop consuming tobacco made an attempt to do so.

A majority of tobacco users who were advised to stop consuming tobacco did not attempt to do so.

Approximately 30% of tobacco users successfully stopped consuming tobacco.

Approximately 65% of tobacco users successfully stopped consuming tobacco.

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How many triangles are present in the given figure?

Diagram for Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology) question 5

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Students of all the departments of a college who have successfully completed the registration process are eligible to vote in the upcoming college elections. However, by the time the due date for registration was over, it was found that surprisingly none of the students from the Department of Human Sciences had completed the registration process.

Based only on the information provided above, which one of the following sets of statement(s) can be logically inferred with certainty?

(i) All those students who would not be eligible to vote in the college elections would certainly belong to the Department of Human Sciences. (ii) None of the students from departments other than Human Sciences failed to complete the registration process with the due time. (iii) All the eligible voters would certainly be students who are not from the Department of Human Sciences.

Your answerChoose one option.

(i) and (ii)

(i) and (iii)

only (i)

only (iii)

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Which one of the following options represents the given graph?

Diagram for Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology) question 7

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Which one of the options does NOT describe the passage below or follow from it?

We tend to think of cancer as a ‘modern’ illness because its metaphors are so modern. It is a disease of overproduction, of sudden growth, a growth that is unstoppable, tipped into the abyss of no control. Modern cell biology encourages us to imagine the cell as a molecular machine. Cancer is that machine unable to quench its intial command (to grow) and thus transform into an indestructible, self-propelled automaton.

[Adapted from The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee]

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It is a reflection of why cancer seems so modern to most of us.

It tells us that modern cell biology uses and promotes metaphors of machinery.

Modern cell biology encourages metaphors of machinery, and cancer is often imagined as a machine.

Modern cell biology never uses figurative language, such as metaphors, to describe or explain anything.

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The digit in the unit’s place of the product

is ______.

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A square with sides of length 6 cm is given. The boundary of the shaded region is defined by two semi-circles whose diameters are the sides of the square, as shown.

The area of the shaded region is ______ cm

Diagram for Humanities and Social Sciences (Psychology) question 10

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