SECRETARIAT ASSISTANT PRELIMINARY EXAM Exam Held on 05-06-2004 Time: 75 Min

SECRETARIAT ASSISTANT PRELIMINARY EXAM Exam held on 05-06-2004 Time: 75 min. Max: 100 marks

(c) Shatrugnan Sinha Questions 1 to 5: Choose synonymous word (d) Manmohan Singh 1. To surprise somebody greatly: 9. (a) Cancel (b) Nullify (a) Appraise (b) Antonyms (c) Void (d) Confirm (c) Astonish (d) Reveal 10. (a) G. Sankarakuruppu 2. To make something more important that it really: (b) O.N.V. Kuruppu (a) Excess (b) Elaborate (c) S.K. Pottekkadu (c) Stress upon (d) Exaggerate (d) Thakazhi Sivasankarapillai 3. Express one's opinion without evidence or full knowledge: Questions 11 to 13: Three words are given. There is a relationship between the first two words. Se- (a) Specify (b) Speculate lect a word that expresses a similar relation- (c) Concede (d) Sensing ship with the third word from the given alter- natives. 4. An event that will happen soon: 11. Pather Panjali : Sathyajith Ray; Athithi : (a) Imminent (b) Damnsure (a) K.P. Kumaran (b) M.T. Vasudevan Nair (c) Immense (d) Immutable (c) T.V. Chandran (d) P.A. Backer 5. To lead somebody to do something: 12. Pareekkutty : Madhu; Chemban Kunju : (a) Persuade (b) Placate (a) P.J. Antony (b) Jose Prakash (c) Persecute (d) Perpend (c) Govindankutty Questions 6 to 10: Four words are given in each. (d) Kottarakara Sreedharan Nair Three of them can be grouped together apply- ing a principle. One word does not belong to 13. Bangladesh: Dhaka; Austria: the group. Find it out. (a) Canberra (b) Lapaz 6. (a) Violet (b) Blue (c) Santiago (d) Vienna (c) Magenda (d) Green Question 14 to 20: choose collect answer from the 7. (a) Cucumber (b) Carrot alternative to fill the blank space: 14. A,E, J,O,–,– (c) Brinjal (d) Ladies finger (a) M,Q (b) S, X 8. (a) Yaswanth Sinha (c) T, Y (d) U, Z (b) Jaswant Singh

8 9 9 15. ADH, BEI, CFJ, – (a) 1970 (b) 1975 (a) DGL (b) DHK (c) 1977 (d) 1980 (c) EHL (d) FIM 26. ‘One Life’ is written by: 16. Veluthampi Dalawa —— a brave fight against (a) Dr. B. Iqbal (b) Bergnan British Army. (c) Kurozowa (d) Dr. Christiaan Bernard (a) Put up (b) Put off 27. ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ is written by: (c) Put in (d) Put down (a) Eric Erikson (b) Sigmund Freud 17. The train was coming, the supervisor —— the (c) A. Beck (d) Kraeplin workers to stop working on rail. 28. ‘Kesavante Vilapangal’ is written by: (a) called off (b) called in (a) M. Mukundan (b) O.V. Vijayan (c) called away (d) called out (c) Anand 18. It —— rain this evening. (d) Perumbadavam Sreedharan (a) can (b) may 29. First malayalam cinema is: (c) could (d) is (a) Balan (b) Newspaper Boy 19. —— the suspected cause for earthquakes is the (c) Harishchandra (d) Vigatha Kumaran construction of dams. 30. The Director of the film ‘Susanna’ is: (a) Most of (b) Only (a) T.V. Chandran (b) Priyadarsan (c) One of (d) None of these (c) Adoor Gopalakrishnan 20. There were —— telephone booths around, so (d) Lenin Rajendran that the old one is closed. 31. The Nigerian Novelist who won the Nobel prize: (a) few (b) a little (a) Clod Seamong (b) Vol Soyinga (c) a few (d) little (c) Joseph Brodskey (d) None of the above Questions 21 to 35: Select appropriate answer: 32. ‘World AIDS Day’: 21. Adolph Hitler committed suicide in (a) April 17th (b) June 5th (a) 1943 (b) 1944 (c) December 1st (d) February 14th (c) 1945 (d) 1946 33. The famous film song ‘Easwaran Hinduvalla, 22. Congress Socialist Party was formed in Islamalla, Christianiyalla, Indranum Chandranumalla’ was written by: (a) 1934 (b) 1935 (a) O.N.V. Kuruppu (b) S.L. Puram Sadanandan (c) 1936 (d) 1938 (c) Vayalar Ramavarma 23. IMF/World Bank was formed in (d) None of the above (a) 1942 (b) 1944 34. FIFA President: (c) 1946 (d) 1947 (a) Sep Blatter (b) Urz Linzy 24. Kyoto Conference was held in (c) H.K. Dua (d)None of the above (a) 1992 (b) 1993 35. Erethrean Sea is: (c) 1996 (d) 1997 (a) Bay of Bengal (b) Indian Ocean 25. Indian Patent Act was formed in (c) Red Sea (d) Arabian Sea

9 0 0 Questions 36 to 55: Choose the correct answer: (c) 204 m (d) 184 m2 36. Find out the values of ‘x’ and ‘y’ if x + y = 7; 3x 44. A chess board contain 64 equal squares and the - 2y = 11. area of each square is 6.25 cm2. A border round (a) 4, 3 (b) 5, 2 the board is 2cm wide. Find the length of the side of the chess board. (c) 3,4 (d) 2, 5 (a) 24cm (b) 42cm 37. Five years ago I was thrice as old as my son and ten years later I shall be twice as old as my son. (c) 60cm (d) 64cm2 How old are we now? 45. The area of a triangle is 48cm2, the base is 12 cm. (a) 30 & 40 (b) 50 & 20 What is its altitude? (c) 40 & 15 (d) 35 & 15 (a) 4cm (b) 6cm 38. 3 chairs and 2 tables cost Rs. 700 and 5 chairs (c) 8cm (d) 12cm and 3 tables cost Rs. 1,100. What is the cost of 2 46. The minute hand of a clock is 10cm long. Find chairs and 2 tables? the area on the face of the clock described by the (a) Rs. 400. (b) Rs. 500. minute hand between 9.00 am. and 9.35 am. ( =3.14) (c) Rs. 600. (d) Rs. 900. (a) 183 cm2 (b) 160 cm2 39. Find two consecutive natural numbers whose 2 2 squares have been the sum 221. (c) 100 cm (d) 314 cm 47. The number of children in 10 families in a locality (a) 10, 11 (b) 9,10 are listed: 3, 1,4,0, 2, 1, 1,2,3,3. Find out the mean (c) 12, 13 (d) 13, 15 number of children. 40. Find out the values of x & y if 2x + 3y = 31; 17x - (a) 1 (b) 2 11y = 8. (c) 3 (d) 4 (a) 4, 7 (b) 5,7 48. The mean of a set of 40 values is 6. Each of the (c) 6, 8 (d) 5, 8 values is increased by 5. What will be the mean of the set of new values? 41. The sum of two numbers is 15. If the sum of their (a) 11 (b) 45 3 reciprocals is , find out the numbers. (c) 60 (d) 70 10 49. Find out the median of the values (a) 9, 6 (b) 8, 7 5,10,3,7,2,9,6,2,11. (c) 5, 10 (d) 4, 11 (a) 2 (b) 6 42. The length of a rectangular plot is 8 metres greater (c) 11 (d) 9 than its breadth. If the area of the plot is 308 m. 50. 5:6,7:8, 13: 16-Which of the following is correct, find the length and breadth of the plot in metre. if the above values are arranged in descending (a) L-16, B-8 (b) L-18, B-10 order of magnitude? (c) L-20, B-12 (d) L-22, B-14 (a) 5:6>7:8>13:16 (b) 13:16>7:8>5:6 43. A lawn is in the shape of a rectangle of length 60 (c) 7:8>5:6>13:16 (d) 7:8>13:16>5:6 metres and width 40 meters. Outside the lawn 51. What must be added to the numbers 6,10, 14 and there is a foot path of uniform width 1 metre broad- 22 so that they became successive proportional? ening the lawn. Find out the area of the path. (a) 1 (b) 2 (a) 4 m2 (b) 204 m2 (c) 3 (d) 4

9 0 1 52. Which one of the following is having greater 63. All the following are noble metals EXCEPT: value? (a) Mercury (b) Gold (a) 5:3 (b) 6:4 (c) Silver (d) Platinum (c) 7:6 (d) 9:7 64. EEG is used to study the functions of: 53. Nalini purchases a cycle for Rs. 660 including (a) Heart (b) Muscle sales tax. If the rate of sales tax is 10%, find out (c) Brain (d) Nerve the sale price of the cycle. 65. DNA model is put forward by: (a) Rs. 500 (b) Rs. 550 (a) Ian Wilmut (b) Dr Henri Becquirel (c) Rs. 560 (d) Rs. 600 (c) Robert Hook (d) None of the above 54. What will be the next number in the following 66. World Heavy - weight Champion of 2003: series of numbers 2, 4, 16, ...... (a) Clistsco (b) Muhammed Ali (a) 32 (b) 64 (c) Linnex Lewis (d) None of the above (c) 256 (d) 300 67. Second Kerala Chief Minister is: 55. What will be the next number, if the series of (a) Pattom Thanu Pillai numbers is as follows 3,11,27,59, ..... (b) E.M.S. (c) C. Achutha Menon (a) 70 (b) 86 (d) R.Sankar (c) 100 (d) 123 68. The slogan ‘lnquilab Zindabad’ was first used Questions 56 to 100: Select the appropriate answer: by: 56. Who proposed the atomic theory? (a) Bhagat Singh (a) John Dalton (b) Neils Bohr (b) Subhash Chandra Bose (c) Chadwick (d) Rutherford (c) V.I. Lenin (d) Ajay Ghosh 57. Father of Electricty: 69. ‘Sadhu Jana Paripalana Sangam’ is founded by: (a) Michal Faraday (b) J.J. Thompson (a) A.K. Gopalan (c) Edison (d) Ampere (b) Ayyankali 58. Who is related to Green Revolution in India? (c) Sree Narayana Guru (a) Varghese Kurian (b) Anand (d) Vakkom Maulavi. (c) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan 70. All of the following are Dravidian language EX- (d) Medha Padkar CEPT: 59. Dengue Fever is caused by —— (a) Malayalam (b) Telungu (a) Bacteria (b) Virus (c) Thulu (d) Marathi (c) Fungi 71. First Internal Affairs Minister of independent (d) Not produced by infective agent India: 60. Temporary hardness of water is due to ——. (a) Jawaharlal Nehru (b) Lal Bahadur Shastri (a) Calcium chloride (b) Sodium carbonate (c) Sardar Vallabhai Patel (c) Sodium chloride (d) V. Krishna Menon (d) Magnesium bicarbonate 72. Capital of Kenya: 61. Global warming is due to the increased produc- (a) Aman (b) Nairobi tion of all the following EXCEPT: (c) Cairo (d) Beirut (a) Carbon dioxide (b) Ethane 73. First computer virus: (c) Methane (d) Sulpher dioxide (a) Gappi (b) Meleesa 62. The concept that 'all plants are made of cells was (c) Norton (d) Apple put forward by: 74. Who declared that ‘‘Swaraj is my birth right and (a) Theodor Schwan (b) R.Virchow I must have it’’? (c) Louis Pasteur (d) M.J. Schleiden

9 0 2 (a) Bhagat Singh (b) Balagangadhar Tilak Congress? (c) Mahatma Gandhi (a) Avadi (b) Pune (d) Subhash Chandra Bose (c) Tripuri (d) Bombay 75. All of the following persons are extremists of 84. RSS was banned in 1948 in relation with Independence movement EXCEPT: (a) India-Pak division (a) Lala Lajpat Rai (b) Bipin Chandrapal (b) Hindu-Muslim War (c) Gopalakrishna Gokhale (c) Bengal Division (d) Aurobindo Ghosh (d) Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi 76. Which of the following event is related to Gen- 85. ‘Bhruhaspathi’ is related with eral Dyer? (a) Arya Samajam (b) Medicine (a) Jalianwala Bagh massacre (c) Indus civilization (d) Charvakamatham (b) Wagon Tragedy 86. The slogan ‘American Model Arabikadalil’ is re- (c) Chittagong Riot lated with (d) Punnapra- Vayalar struggle (a) Telungana struggle 77. First battle of Panipat was between: (b) Punnapra-Vayalar struggle (a) Hemu and Akbar (c) Kayyur struggle (b) Marathas and East India Company (d) Vaikom Sathyagraha (c) Babur and Ibrahim Lodi 87. ‘Keralam Malayalikalude Mathrubhoomi’ was (d) East India Company and Portuguese written by 78. Where did Gandhiji launched his first struggle? (a) Kumaranasan (b) Thakazhi (a) Navaghaly (b) Dandi (c) E.M.S. (d) Vallathol (c) Kappad (d) Champaran 88. Male-female sex ratio of India in 2001 census is: 79. Who presided the first session of All India Trade (a) 1000 : 933 (b) 1000 : 1040 (c) 1000 : Union Congress? 939(d) 1000 : 1046 (a) Subhash Chandra Bose 89. The Prime Minister who started privatization in (b) Lala Lajpat Rai (c) C.R. Das Britain: (d) Jawaharlal Nehru (a) Margaret Thatcher 80. Volunteer captain of Guruvayoor Temple (b) John Major (c) Tony Blair Sathyagraha: (d) Winston Churchill (a) A.K. Gopalan (b) K. Kelappan 90. The smallest state in the world (c) Pattom Thanupillai (a) Russia (b) Vatican (d) Ayyankali (c) Sri Lanka (d) Cuba 81. The East India Company established its first fac- 91. The persons who became the Chief Minister for tory at the longest period in India: (a) Surat (b) Pune (a) E.K. Nayanar (b) Vasantha Sate (c) Calcutta (d) Bombay (c) Jyothi Basu (d) K. Karunakaran 82. Formation of the INA was the result of the great 92. Who was the first speaker of Lok Sabha? efforts made by (a) Sivaraj Patel (b) Jagjeevan Ram (a) Captain Lakshmi Bai (c) Lal Bahadur Shasthri (b) Rash Behari Bose (d) G.V. Mavlankar (c) Subhash Chandra Bose 93. Panchayathi Raj instructions came into effect (d) Aurobindo Ghosh with the amendment of the constitution: 83. In which conference did Subhash Chandra Bose (a) 70th (b) 73rd was elected as the president of Indian National (c) 76th (d) 79th

9 0 3 94. Who is the president of newly declared inde- is the Prime Minister. aäp-Åh DÅ pendent country, East Timor? 9. (d) Confirm. negative meaning syn- BWv. F¶mÂ \nb-a-{]m-_eyw CÃm- onyms Void (a) Xanana Gusmao (b) Hugo Chavez ¯Xv F¶mWv AÀ°w. {]tbmKw Null and void (c) Lula da Zilva (d) Nuster Kitchnarre HmÀ½n-¡p-I. 95. The Chairman of Constitution review committee: 10. (b) O.N.V. Kuruppu. (a) Kuldip Nayyar (b) Justice Kbare  G. Sankarakuruppu, S.K. Pottekkadu and (c) Justice Varma Thakazhi were all the recipients of Jnanpith award. (d) Justice Venkita Chellaiya 11. (a) K.P. Kumaran 96. Monthly salary of Chief Justice of India: 12. (d) Kottarakara Sreedharan Nair (a) Rs. 30,000 (b) Rs. 31,000  P.J. Antony-First Keralite get Bharat award. (c) Rs. 33,000 (d) Rs. 50,000 13. (d) Vienna 97. What is B.O.D.?  Canberra - capital of Australia (a) Biological Oxygen Demand  Santiago - capital of Chile (b) Biochemistry of Diseases 14. (c) T, Y (c) Biochemical Oxygen Demand 15. (c) and (d) are correct (d) None of the above A + 3 = D, D + 4 = H 98. Meenamatha disease is related with B + 3 = E, E + 4 = I (a) Cadmium (b) Mercury C + 3 = F, F + 4 = J E + 3 = H, H + 4 = L (c) Lead (d) Iron So answer is EHL 99. National party is one which could secure not less than —— % of the total valid votes in the FIM also comes in the same manner previous general election. 16. (a) Put up 17. (d) Called out (a) 4% (b) 6% 18. (b) May 19. (c) One of the 20. (c) a few (c) 8% (d) 9% 21. (c) 1945 100. The theory that ‘the continents will travel’ was  Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in 1933. first put forward by: 22. (a) 1934 (a) Antonio Sneider (b) F.J. Wine  Congress Socialist Party was set up in 1934 un- (c) D.H. Mathews (d) Alfred Wegner der Acharya Narendra Dev and Jayaprakash Narayan. Answers with Explanations 23. No right answer Secretartiat Assistant IMF-was established in 1945 and started func- tioning in 1947. Wold Bank was set up in 1944 ChnsS tNmZy- (Preliminary) and began operation in 1946. IÀ¯mhv Dt±-in-¨Xv F¶mWv. IBRD/World Bank C§-s\-bm-Wv tNmZyw Bbn-cp-¶-sX-¦nÂ D¯cw 1. (c) Astonish 2. (d) Exaggerate BIp-am-bn-cp-¶p. (b) 3. (b) Speculate 4. (a) Imminent 24. (d) 1997 5. (a) Persuade P¸m-\nse bnÂ h¨mWv BtKmf Xm]\-  Kyoto- 6. (c) Magenda ¯n\v Imc-Wamb hmX-I-§Ä ]pd¯v hnSp-¶-Xv Ipd-bv¡m-\mbn H¸p-h-¨-Xv.  All the others colours present in rainbow. Kyoto Protocol 7. (b) Carrot 25. (a) 1970  It is a root vegetable. 26. (d) Christiaan Bernard. One life is a book written by 8. (c) Shatrugnan Sinha. (Most correct answer) Dr Christiaan Bernard. He made the first human  All others were Finance Ministers of India (d) heart transplant in 1967. Manmohan Singh can also be the answer as others 27. (b) Sigmund Freud were only union ministers while Manmohan Singh

9 0 4  Freud was the founder of Psychoanalysis. Psy- 2 × (2) 10 chair + 6 tables = 2200..... (4) chopathology of Every Life, The Ego and the Id (4)– (3) Chair = 100 are his other famous works.  tables = 200 28. (a) M. Mukundan \r¯w, ssZh-¯nsâ hnIr-Xn-IÄ, a¿-gn-¸p-g-bpsS 2 chair + 2 tables = 200 + 400 = 600  Xoc-§-fnÂ 39. (a) 10, 11 F¶nh apIp-µsâ aäp IrXn-I-fm-Wv. i.e., 102 + 112 = 100 + 121 = 221 29. (d) Vigatha Kumaran ae-bm-f-¯nse BZys¯ i_vZ Nn{Xw þ _me³ 40. (b) 5, 7  2x +3y = 31 (1) 30. (a) T.V. Chandran {_n«ojv ^nenw C³Ìn-äyq«v AhmÀUv t\Snb Htc- 17x - 11y = 8 (2)  sbmcp ae-bmf Ne-¨n-{X-Im-c-\mWv ASqÀ tKm]m- (1) × 11, 22x + 33y = 341 e-Ir-jvW³. (2) × (3), 51x - 33y = 24 31. (b) Vol Soyinga 73x = 365  Dr Zhivago is a book written by the Russian nov- 365 elist Boris Pasternak. x = 73 = 5 32. (c) December 1st  10 + 3y = 31 3y = 21  World Health Day - April 7  y = 7  World Environment Day - June 5 41. (c) 5, 10  Valentines Day - February 14 If a = 5 and b = 10 33. (c) Vayalar Ramavarma F\n¡p ac-W-an-Ã, sIm´bpw ]qWq-epw, Hcp Ihn- a + b = 5 + 10 = 15  bpsS Ubdn XpS-§n-bh hb-em-dnsâ {][m\ Sum of their reciprocals IrXn-I-fm-Wv. 1 1 1 1 2 +1 3 =      34. (a) Sepp Blatter a b 5 10 10 10  FIFA celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2004. FIFA was formed on May 21, 1904. 42. (d) L - 22, B - 14 35. (c) Red sea. l - b = 8m lb = 308  Malagasy islands is the biggest island in the In- 2 dian ocean. l + b = (l  b) + 4lb = 64 +1232 = 1296 36. (b) x + y = 7 (1) l + b = 36 3x - 2y = 11 (2) l - b = 8 (1) × 2  2x + 2y = 14 2l = 44, l = 22, b = 36 - 22 = 14 3x - 2y = 11 43. (b) 204m2 5x = 25 44. (a) 24cm x = 5 Total area of the chess board = 64 × 6.25 cm2  y = 7 - x = 7 - 5 = 2 37. (b) 50 & 20 Side of the chess board = 64  6.25 = 20cm Let ‘x’ be the age of son, Length of the side of the chess board 3x + 15 = 2 (x + 15) = 20 + (2 × 2) = 24 cm 3x + 15 = 2x + 30 45. (c) 8cm  x = 15 Area = ½ bh Present age of son = x + 5 = 20 ½ × 12 h = 48 Father = 3x + 5 = 50 h = 8 cm 38. (c) Rs. 600 46. (a) 183cm2 Angle subtend is 2100. 3 chair + 2 table = 700 ...... (1)  r2  =  10 10  210 5 chair + 3 table = 1100 ...... (2) Area = 360 360 = 183 3× (1) 9 chair + 3 tables = 2100...... (3) cm2

9 0 5 47. (b) 2 58. (c) Dr. M.S. Swaminathan Sum  M.S. Swaminathan, eminent agricultural scientist Mean = Number will now heads a committee appointed by the Agriculture Ministry to prepare a national policy 3 +1+ 4 + 0 + 2 +1+1+ 2 + 3 + 3 20 on Agrie - Biotechnology. = = = 2 10 10 59. (b) Virus 48. (a) 11  BÀt_m sshdkv aqe-amWv sU¦n-¸\n Dm-Ip- New mean = 5 + old mean = 5 + 6 = 11 ¶-Xv. 49. (b) 6 60. (d) Magnesium bicarbonates Values written in ascending order  Temporary hardness of water is due the presence 2, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 of bicarbonates of calcium and magnesium. Middle value is the median. i.e., 6 61. (d) Sulphur dioxide 50. (c) 7 : 8 > 5 : 6 > 13 :  Carbon compounds are mainly responsible for X¶n-cn-¡p¶ aäp-Å-hsbÃmw 5 7 13 Green House Effect. 16 = 0.86, = 0.87, = 0.81 ImÀ_-Wnsâ kwbp-à-§-fm-Wv. 6 8 16 7 : 8 > 5 : 6 > 13 : 16 62. (d) M.J. Schleiden kky-i-cocw tImi-§-fmÂ \nÀ½n-X-am-sW¶v 51. (b) 2  Is-¯n-bXv Fw.-sP. jvfoU³ F¶ PÀ½³ 6 + x 14 + x imkv{X-Ú-\mWv. F¶mÂ skÂ Xnbdn cq]o- = I-cn-¨Xv Dw \pw Hcp-an-¨m-Wv. 10 + x 22 + x Schwan Schleiden tNmZyw kky-i-co-c-am-b-Xn-\mÂ D¯cw (6 + x) (22 + x) = (14 + x) (10 + x) (d). 132 + 6x + 22x + x2 = 140 + 14x + 10x + x2 63. (a) Mercury 28x - 24x = 140 - 132  Mercury is referred to as the first superconduct- 4x = 8 ing metal. x = 2 64. (c) Brain 52. (a) 5 :3  ECG (Electrocardiogram) is used to study the func- 5 6 7 9 tion of Heart. = 1.67 = 1.5 = 1.16 = 1.28 3 4 6 7 65. (d) None of the above 53. (d) 600  DNA model was propounded by Watson and Crick in 1953. 110 CP = 660 66. (c) Linnex Lewis 100 67. (a) Pattom Thanu Pillai. 660  100 BZys¯ tIm¬{Kkv apJy-a{´n BÀ. i¦-dm-Wv. CP = = 600  110 68. (a) Bhagat Singh 54. (c) 256 2, 4, 16  The slogan of ‘Inquilab Zindabad’ was given by 4 = 22, 16 = 42, 256 = 162 the revolutionary, group ‘Hindustan Socialist Re- 55. (d) 3, 11, 27, 59, 123 public Association. (+8 +16 +32 +64) 69. (b) Ayyankali Difference between the consecutive numbers are {io \mcm-bW [À½]cn-]m-e\ tbmK-¯nsâ  8, 16, 32, 64 Øm]-I-\mWv {io\m-cm-b-W-Kp-cp. 56. (a) John Dalton  Dalton proposed that all matter is composed of 70. (c) All except Marathi are Dravidian languages. extremely small particles called atoms. 71. (c) Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. 57. (a) Michael Faraday  Internal Affairs refers to Home Ministry.  Father of Nuclear Physics - Ernest Rutherford. 72. (b) Nairobi  Father of Atom Bomb - Otto Hahn.

9 0 6  Cairo is the capital of Egypt.  {_n«o-jp-ImÀs¡-Xnsc tIc-f-¯n-ep-mb BZys¯ kwLSnX Iem-]-amWv Bän-§Â 73. (d) APPLE Iem]w (1721).  VIRUS refers to Vital Information Resources Under Siege. 87. (c) E.M.S. 74. (b) Balgangadhar Tilak 88. (a) 1000 : 933  ‘‘Dilli Chalo’’ and ‘‘Jai Hind’’ were coined by  The sex ratio of Kerala according to the 2001 cen- Subhash Chandra Bose. sus is 1000 : 1058. 75. (c) Goplakrishna Gokhale 89. (a) Margaret Thatcher  Gokhale, Dadabhai Naoroji and Feroz Shah Mehta  Thatcher is known as the ‘Iron Lady’. She is also were liberal politicians. the first woman Prime Minister of Britain. 76. (a) Jallianwala Bagh Massacre 90. (b) Vatican  Jallianwala Bagh Massacre was held on April 13,  Vatican is also the least populous city in the world. 1919 at Amritsar. 91. (c) Jyothi Basu 77. (c) Babur and Ibrahim Lodhi  E.K. Nayanar is the longest serving Chief Minis-  The first battle of Panipat was held in A.D. 1526. ter of Kerala. 78. (d) Champaran 92. (d) G.V. Mavlankar  Gandhiji’s first satyagraha in India was for the  R. Shankara Narayanan Thampi became the first rights of indigo workers in Champaran in 1917. speaker of Kerala. 79. (c) C.R. Das 93. (b) 73rd  All India Trade Union Congress was formed in  Kerala Panchayati Raj Act became operational on 1920. April 24, 1994. 80. (a) A.K. Gopalan 94. (a) Xanana Gusmao  K. Kelappan was the leader of Gurvayoor  East Timor became the 191st member of United Satyagraha in 1931. Nations. 81. (a) Surat 95. (a) Justice Venkita Chellaya C´y³ `c-W-L-S\ t`Z-KXn sN¿m-\pÅ A[n-   Dutch East India Company was established in Imcw ]mÀe-saânÂ \n£n-]vX-am-bn-cn-¡p-¶p. 1592. 82. (b) Rash Behari Bose 96. (c) Rs. 33,000 kp{]ow- tIm-SXn PUvPn-bpsS amk-i-¼fw 30,000   The Idea of the INA was first conceived in Ma- cq]-bm-Wv. laya by Mohan Singh, an Indian officer of the British Indian Army. 97. (a) & (c) are correct. Biological Oxygen Demand and  On September 1, 1942, the first division of the Biochemical Oxygen Demand. INA was formed with 16,300 men led by Mohan  The estimation B.O.D. gives an idea of the amount Singh, Rash Behari Bose and Niranjan Singh Gill. of pollution in water.  The Second phase of the INA began on July 2, 98. (b) Mercury 1984þse t`m¸mÂ Zpc-´-¯n\p Imc-W-amb hmX- 1943 by Subhash Chandra Bose in Singapore.  I-amWv aossXÂ sFtkm kb-t\äv 83. (c) Tripuri (MIC).  Subhash Chandra Bose became the first elected 99. (b) 6% President of INC in 1938 (Haripura Session).  To be recognised as a national party a party must 84. (d) Assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. get at least six percent of valid votes in four or  Gandhiji was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic more states (According to a revised 1998 order of Nathuram Vinayak Godse. Election Commission) 85. (d) Charvakamatham 100. (d) Alfred Wegner 86. (b) Punnapra Vayalar Struggle (1946)  Alfred Wegner in 1915 first gave the term ‘Conti- nental drift’.

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9 0 9 6. Read the following passage and express the given (b) Empowerment of women passage in about one third of its length: (c) Criminals in politics Poetry hardly suits the temper of the modern in- (d) Your favourite Novelist dustrial society. Poetry as a form of narrative has (2 × 5 = 10 marks) lost its ancient vogue and has willy-nilly yielded the place of honour of the novel and short story, Part III (Regional Language) which are today the most popular as well on the 1. Write two paragraphs on any two of the following: best cultivated forms of literature. In Bengal both these forms attained an early maturity in the (a) Alarming signals of burgeoning population hands of Tagore and have since made phenom- (b) Three-tier Panchayati Raj enal progress under his younger contemporar- ies and successors. (c) Case for and against coalition government Sanskrit is deemed as a dead language, which is (d) Relevance of planning under liberalisation no longer a spoken tongue. Nevertheless it is a (2 × 5 = 10 marks) very vital source language on which all Indian languages, except Urdu, draw for their vocabu- 2. Write a short essay on any one of the following lary. Also it is a living fount of literary inspira- (not exceeding 500 words) tion to Indian writers. Perhaps there has not been (a) Tsunami wreaked havoc and the strategies single writer of outstanding distinction in the to tackle major natural calamities modern period who has not drawn freely on the (b) Economic crisis in Kerala wealth of both Sankrit and English literature. (c) Indian and World Trade Organisation (WTO) The position of English in some respects unique in India. On the one hand it is resented by the 3. Translate the following passage into Malayalam/ ultra-nationalist sentiment and on the other it is Tamil/Kannada still the medium of higher education in most of Ayurvedic knowledge in this country has existed the Universities especially in science and tech- since vedic times and we have been extremely suc- nology and the one link among the intelligentsia cessful in using various traditional systems of medi- all over India. Apart from its utilitarian value as a cine. We have a very rich flora of medicinal plants. language of higher education in science, and as The Ayurveda principle of cure are based on the fun- a link language, a fair number of Indian writers, damental knowlede of the five major elements, ie, earth, including such eminent thinkers steeped in In- water, fire, air and space. The dynamic equilibrium of dian thought on Vivekananda, Ranade, Gokhale, these has resulted in not only life saving treatments Aurobindo and Radhakrishnan have voluntarily but the treatment of the chronic ailments without the adopted it as their literary medium. Even the bulk side effects. The Indian medicinal plant flora has of Mahatma Gandhi’s writings are in English. some very important worldwide popular species. Some early pioneers in Indian languages were It is estimated that by 2050, the global market of also tempted at the threshold of their career to herbal based products may be around 5 trillion adopt English for their creative writing, partly dollars. The physicians of the 21st century would because they owed their inspiration to English depend more and more on plant based treatment literature and partly because they hoped thereby taking the lead from Ayurveda. 70-80 percent of to reach a wider audience. world population in the developing countries may still continue to depend on the herbal rem- (5 marks) edies. A holistic system of treatment which is 7. Write two paragraphs on any two of the follow- the underlying principle of Ayurveda maintain- ing: ing the balance between nature, man and envi- (a) Eco-tourism in Kerala ronment may provide remedies for many dread- ful diseases.

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9 1 1 INSAT - 4B IN SPACE SRE - I India achieved yet another milestone when European Space Agency Rocket Arian - 5 RECAPTURED launched INSAT - 4 B from Kouru in French India achieved another milestone in space explo- Gyana on March 12, 2007. The Satallite will ration. ISRO succeeded in its attempt to recover boost TV Communication revolution in India. SRE - I (Space Capsule Recovery Experiment) from its orbit around earth.

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