GAT-B Arts, Humanities & Social Science MCQs With Answers

Noble:

Hypothetical:

Q:The modern value systems encourage the importance of which one of the following?

Fierce:

Fiasco:

Whichever way you approach the problem ..................

Militant:

Q:Which of the following is most opposite in meaning to the word 'integral' as used in the passage?

Dexterity:

Perennial:

Where are my spectacles ? ..................

Lethargic:

Miserly:

Dilapidated:

Frugal:

Absolute:

We lost confidence in Salim because he never .......... the grandiose promises he had made.

TEDIOUS: BORING

Stain

Rout:

Esoteric:

Brazen:

Belittle:

Pleonasm:

Daring:

Challenge:

Bull:

Busy:

Etiolate:

No sooner did he go in ............... he cam out.

Precede:

Motile:

Voluptuous:

Fallacious:

Prompt:

Compendious:

HEAVY: LIGHT

Hardworking:

Embraces:

Litotes:

EXAMINATION: DEGREE

Devotion:

Extinct:

Non-violence is the law of saints as violence is the law of the ..................

illicit:

Grudge:

The ravages of time had left the caste .................... it towered above the village, looking much as it must have done in King Faisal's time.

The past decade has upset many preconceptions above development and this, more than anything else, makes it difficult to be overly definite about what the next decade has in store. However, there are a few things that one can assert with some confidence. First, education, health, and productive employment are crucial both for growth and for equity. We have tended to assume that all of these are the consequences of rapid economic growth and that only growth can generate the resources required for these purposes. However, increasingly, it appears that these are better seen as the causes rather than as consequences of development. Virtually every case of successful development involves a prior improvement in literacy, technical skills, health status, and access to productive work. Second, technological competence is the most important resource endowment and it explains a tar larger proportion of growth in output and trade than more conventional factors like natural resources or capital accumulation. The competence required is not just in research. In fact technological dynamism in the factory and the farm is more important than the presence of large research establishment. Third, the environmental imperative can no longer be ignored. Today, as an international issue, it is second only to disarmament. Nationally, the developmental consequences of environmental neglect are increasingly obvious. In the Pakistani context, there are at least two further factors, which reinforce the above propositions. The first is population growth. Given the pace of expansion of the population and the work force, human resource development acquires an added urgency. Population growth is also one, but not necessarily the most important factor, which underlines environmental stress in rural and urban areas. The second factor is that as a large country we cannot carve out an independent positioning the global system without building up a substantial capacity for self-reliant growth. The acquisition of technical competence is crucial for this purpose. Until now, we have tended to treat human resource development, technology issues and environment as subsidiary to the main task of planning. The thrust has been on: quantitative expansion of infrastructure and production with a focus on production targets like tones of steel, kWh of electricity etc., capacity targets like road length, rail kilometer age; and coverage targets like number of

schools and students, number of villages electrified etcetera, catching up with known technologies -Fuller use of natural resources -Maximum mobilization of financial resources.

Q:What seems to be the purpose of the author in writing this passage?

Histrionic:

Madness:

We must explore ................... sources of energy as our supply of fossil fuel has been ....................

Measurement is, like any other human endeavour, a complex activity, subject to error, not always used .................. and frequently misinterpreted and misunderstood.

Although, I had pledged not to tell anyone of the previous evening's trauma, the compulsive urge to unburden myself became ......................

Wicked:

Discord:

Come:

Callous:

Marcescence:

POVERTY: PROSPERITY

Cheerly:

Casuistry:

CANADA: USA

The public distribution system, which provides food at low prices, is a subject of vital concern. There is a growing realization that though Ethiopia has enough food to feed its masses two square meals a day, the monster of starvation and food insecurity continues to haunt the poor in the country. Increasing the purchasing power of the poor through providing productive employment leading to rising income, and thus good standard of living is the ultimate objective of public policy. However, till then, there is a need to provide assured supply of food through a restructured, more efficient and decentralized public distribution system (PDS). Although the PDS is extensive - it is one of the largest such systems in the world - it has yet to reach the rural poor and the far off places. It remains an urban phenomenon, with the majority of the rural poor still out of its reach due to lack of economic and physical access. The poorest in the cities and the migrants are left out, for they generally do not possess ration cards. The allocation of PDS supplies in big cities is larger than in rural areas. In view of such deficiencies in the system, the PDS urgently needs to be streamlined. In addition, considering the large food grains production combined with food subsidy on one hand and the continuing slow starvation and dismal poverty of the rural population on the other, there is a strong case for making PDS target group oriented. The growing salaried class is provided job security., regular income, and percent insulation agaifl inflation. These gains of development have hot percolated down to the vast majority of our working population. If one compares only dearness allowance to the employees in public and private sector and looks at its growth in the past few years, the rising food subsidy is insignificant to the point of inequity. The food subsidy is a kind of D.A. to the poor, the self-employed and those in the unorganized sector of the economy. However, what is most unfortunate is that out of the large budget of the so-called food subsidy, the major part of it is administrative cost and wastages. A small portion of the above budget goes to the real consumer and an even lesser portion to the poor who are in real need. It is true that subsidies should not become a permanent feature, except for the destitute, disabled widows and the old. It is also true that subsidies often create a psychology of dependence and hence is habit-forming, killing the general initiative of the people. By making PDS target group oriented, not only the poorest and neediest would be reached without additional cost, but it will actually cut overall costs incurred on large cities and for better off localities. When the food and food subsidy are limited the rural and urban poor should have the priority in the PDS supplies. The PDS should be closely linked with programs of employment generation and nutrition improvement.

Q:Which of the following words is the same in meaning as 'power' as used in the passage?

Though Akram was theoretically a friend of labour, his voting record in party ...................... that impression.

Density:

Umbrage:

Unseemly:

Craven:

Pusillanimous:

Forge:

This contract was .................. it was not valid now.

Pejorative:

Nonchalant:

Aloof:

Endow:

ECG: HEART