Research Assistant, Planning and Development Past Paper 2006 Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: be told

"Let him be told to leave the room at once" is the grammatical passive construction; the keyed "told" does not fit the infinitive.

Correct Answer: would be dismissed

In reported speech, "none would be dismissed" is the future-in-the-past form after "assured".

Correct Answer: could have been avoided

This is a third conditional: if the driver had been careful, the accident could have been avoided.

Correct Answer: were you taught

The passive interrogative is "By whom were you taught such behaviour as this?"

Correct Answer: to be believed

The idiom runs "it has to be seen to be believed".

Correct Answer: a secret or hidden enemy

A snake in the grass is a secret or hidden enemy.

Correct Answer: No choice at all since that is the only thing to take or do

Hobson's choice is no choice at all, since only one thing is offered to take or do.

Correct Answer: to meet with humiliation

To meet one's Waterloo is to suffer a decisive defeat, hence to meet with humiliation; the keyed "to die fighting" is not the idiom's meaning.

Correct Answer: to try to win advantage for oneself from a disturbed state of affairs

To fish in troubled waters is to try to win advantage for oneself from a disturbed state of affairs.

Correct Answer: to make every possible effort to win

To fight tooth and nail is to make every possible effort to win.

Correct Answer: with

"Bear with" means to tolerate, so one bears with rudeness.

Correct Answer: with

"Dispense with" means to do without, so one dispenses with his services.

Correct Answer: to

"Attend to" means to pay attention to, so one attends to the lecture.

Correct Answer: in

"Deal in" means to trade in, so he deals in vegetables.

Correct Answer: for

"Feeling for" means searching by touch, as a blind man feels for the table.

Correct Answer: for

One works for a salary, so the cashier works for a small salary.

Correct Answer: on

One works on a machine in the sense of operating it.

Correct Answer: over

"Talking over" a matter means discussing it, so they are talking over a confidential matter.

Correct Answer: in

At the opera, a box is a private seating compartment, so one sees the performance in a box.

Correct Answer: 0.6%

10% of 20% of 30% is 0.1 x 0.2 x 0.3 = 0.006, which is 0.6%.

Correct Answer: 2b

b as a percentage of 50 is (b/50) x 100 = 2b.

Correct Answer: 700 apples

420 apples are the 60% left after selling 40%, so the original stock was 420/0.60 = 700 apples.

Correct Answer: 57%

The winner's 11,628 votes out of 20,400 total are 57%.

Correct Answer: 100

Exactly 8 years old are 48 pupils, above 8 are two-thirds of that (32), and below 8 are 20% of the total, giving 100 pupils in all.

Correct Answer: 7/12

A week has 168 hours, and 98/168 simplifies to 7/12.

Correct Answer: 8/3

With x kg of pure salt added, (0.6 + x)/(30 + x) = 10% gives x = 8/3 kg.

Correct Answer: 4 : 3

Solving 5A + 4B = (2/3)(6A + 8B) gives A = (4/3)B, so A : B = 4 : 3.

Correct Answer: 50.5

The average of the integers 1 to 100 is (1 + 100)/2 = 50.5.

Correct Answer: 1.75

10a + 10b = 35 gives a + b = 3.5, so their average is 1.75.

Correct Answer: 14

(5 + 6 + 7 + w)/4 = 8 gives 18 + w = 32, so w = 14.

Correct Answer: 19

(3a + 4b)/2 = 5b is less than 50 with a = 2b, so a is less than 20 and the largest integer value of a is 19.

Correct Answer: 50.5

The average of the integers 1 to 100 is (1 + 100)/2 = 50.5.

Correct Answer: 1.75

10a + 10b = 35 gives a + b = 3.5, so their average is 1.75.

Correct Answer: 14

(5 + 6 + 7 + w)/4 = 8 gives 18 + w = 32, so w = 14.

Correct Answer: 72

The exterior angles of a pentagon sum to 360 degrees, averaging 72 degrees; note the interior angles average 108 degrees, which is not offered.

Correct Answer: 165

x - 4 = 9 gives x = 13, so x squared minus 4 is 169 - 4 = 165.

Correct Answer: 121

3x - 4 = 11, so (3x - 4) squared is 11 squared = 121.

Correct Answer: 20

150 burgers at Rs.40 bring Rs.6,000 of the Rs.7,500 earned, leaving Rs.1,500 for pizzas at Rs.75 each, which is 20 pizzas.

Correct Answer: 60

The sum exceeds the difference by twice the smaller number, so the smaller number is 15 and the greater is 900/15 = 60.

Correct Answer: Venus

Venus orbits between Mercury and Earth.

Correct Answer: Both C, D & E

Mercury and Venus are the planets with no natural satellites; the book's combined option adds Pluto, which was still listed as a planet in 2006, though Pluto in fact has Charon.

Correct Answer: Steel rod

Sound travels fastest in solids, so the steel rod gives the largest velocity among the options.

Correct Answer: much faster

Sound travels much faster in water than in air.

Correct Answer: a sound repeated by reflection

An echo is a sound repeated by reflection from a surface.

Correct Answer: height of an object

A sextant measures angles and altitudes, so among the options it measures the height of an object.

Correct Answer: poor conductors of heat

Liquids are poor conductors of heat.

Correct Answer: iron oxide

Rust is hydrated iron oxide formed on iron exposed to air and dampness.

Correct Answer: dry air

Dry air, by definition, carries no moisture.

Correct Answer: Clouds prevent radiation and therefore help the ground temperature remain higher

Clouds trap outgoing radiation and keep the ground warmer, so frost rarely forms on cloudy nights.

Correct Answer: opposite charges in different clouds break down the resistance offered by the intervening air

Lightning is the discharge when opposite charges in different clouds break down the resistance of the intervening air.

Correct Answer: D

Fish liver oil, egg yolk, liver and milk are the classic dietary sources of vitamin D.

Correct Answer: high blood pressure

Coronary heart disease is most often found in persons suffering from high blood pressure.

Correct Answer: increases

Blood pressure generally increases as a person becomes older.

Correct Answer: X-rays

Roentgen rays are X-rays, named after Wilhelm Roentgen.

Correct Answer: any movement of an object

Kinetic energy is the energy an object has because of its movement.

Correct Answer: Photometry

Photometry is the branch of physics concerned with the measurement of light.

Correct Answer: All of these factors

The light falling on a surface depends on its distance from the source, its position relative to the incident rays, and the illuminating power of the source — all of these factors.

Correct Answer: E.G. Otis-1852

Elisha Graves Otis invented the safety lift, demonstrated in 1852.

Correct Answer: lungs

Whales are mammals and breathe through lungs, not gills.

Correct Answer: 11th November 2004

Yasser Arafat, first president of the Palestinian Authority, died on 11 November 2004.

Correct Answer: 27 years

Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison, from 1964 to 1990.

Correct Answer: John Steinbeck

East of Eden (1952) is the work of John Steinbeck.

Correct Answer: Unique

Sui generis is Latin for unique, of its own kind.

Correct Answer: Iran, Oman and UAE

The Strait of Hormuz is bordered by Iran to the north and Oman and the UAE to the south.

Correct Answer: South Africa

The rand is the currency of South Africa.

Correct Answer: Pollution

The Kyoto Protocol addresses pollution through limits on greenhouse-gas emissions.

Correct Answer: king Idris

King Idris I of Libya was deposed by Colonel Qadhafi in 1969.

Correct Answer: Sykes-Picot

The Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916 divided the Ottoman Middle East into spheres of western influence.

Correct Answer: USA

The economic crisis of the 1930s, the Great Depression, originated in the USA.

Correct Answer: Goldsmith

"Where wealth accumulates, men decay" is from Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village.

Correct Answer: Qatar

Qatar is the book's intended answer for the highest-GDP (per-capita) country among the options.

Correct Answer: Intensity of sound

The decibel is the unit used for the intensity of sound.

Correct Answer: Silicon

Silicon is the standard semiconductor material used to convert solar energy into electricity.

Correct Answer: Learning

A change in behaviour promoted by information and experience is learning.

Correct Answer: Deontological

Deontological ethics judges ethical issues on the basis of universal rules and duties.

Correct Answer: Van Gogh

The Sunflowers paintings were done by Vincent van Gogh.

Correct Answer: Singapore

The headquarters of APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) is in Singapore.

Correct Answer: Syria

Syria lies in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean.

Correct Answer: Badminton

The Thomas Cup is the men's world team championship in badminton.

Correct Answer: Zaid Bin Haris (R.A)

Zayd ibn Harithah was the first slave to accept Islam.

Correct Answer: Najashi

The Najashi (Negus of Abyssinia) sent royal gifts to the Prophet (PBUH).

Correct Answer: Samiya (R.A)

Sumayyah (R.A) was the first female martyr of Islam.

Correct Answer: Nuh (A.S)

Nuh (A.S) is called the second Adam, the second father of mankind after the Flood.

Correct Answer: Saffah

Abu al-Abbas al-Saffah was the first Abbasid caliph, from 750 CE.

Correct Answer: Ameer Muawiya (R.A)

Ameer Muawiya (R.A) was the first Umayyad caliph, from 661 CE.

Correct Answer: Tabuk

Hazrat Ali (R.A) did not take part in Tabuk, having been left in Medina as the Prophet's deputy.

Correct Answer: N. Africa

The Berber tribes are the indigenous people of North Africa.

Correct Answer: Muawiya (R.A)

The first Muslim attack on Constantinople was launched in the reign of Muawiya (R.A).

Correct Answer: Ibn-i-Hisham

Ibn Hisham's recension of Ibn Ishaq's Sirah is the standard first biography of the Prophet (SAW) as presented in the book.

Correct Answer: Khaliquz-Zaman

Chaudhry Khaliquz-Zaman was the United Provinces leader who supported the Pakistan Resolution.

Correct Answer: Partition Plan

The June 3rd Plan of 1947 is also known as the Partition Plan (the Mountbatten Plan).

Correct Answer: Khawaja Nazim-ud-Din

Khawaja Nazim-ud-Din was the second Governor-General of Pakistan, succeeding Jinnah in 1948.

Correct Answer: 1969

The 1962 Constitution was abrogated in 1969, when martial law was imposed.

Correct Answer: 28 May

Pakistan exploded its nuclear devices at Chagai on 28 May 1998.

Correct Answer: November 1, 1999

The National Accountability Bureau was created in November 1999 under the National Accountability Ordinance.

Correct Answer: 13297 sq Km

The total area of Azad Kashmir is 13,297 square kilometres as taught in the book.

Correct Answer: 24N to 37N

Pakistan lies between latitudes 24 degrees N and 37 degrees N.

Correct Answer: 24th parallel line

Pakistan's claim in the Rann of Kutch followed the 24th parallel line.

Correct Answer: 1046 Km

The length of Pakistan's coastline is 1,046 kilometres as taught in the book.