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Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 1

Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the given word:

Ameliorate

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Ameliorate is a verb which means make something better.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 2

Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the given word:

Haggle

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Haggle means dispute or bargain repeatedly, especially over the cost of something.

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Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 3

Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the given word:

Morose

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Morose is an adjective which means bad-tempered and sulky.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 4

Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the given word:

Taciturn

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Taciturn is an adjective which means a person who remains reserved or is uncommunicative in speech.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 5

Choose the word which is nearest in meaning to the given word:

Cajole

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Cajole means persuade someone to do something by false promises.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 6

Choose the most appropriate option that explains the correct meaning of the following idioms:

A man of straw

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The idiom 'a man of straw' means a person undertaking a financial commitment without adequate means.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 7

Choose the most appropriate option that explains the correct meaning of the following idioms:

To catch a tartar

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The idiom 'to catch a tartar' means to nab a dangerous person.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 8

Choose the most appropriate option that explains the correct meaning of the following idioms:

To have an axe to grind

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The idiom 'to have an axe to grind' means to have a strong personal opinion.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 9

Choose the most appropriate option that explains the correct meaning of the following idioms:

To play second fiddle

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The idiom 'To play second fiddle' means to have a subordinate role to someone or something; be treated as less important than someone or something.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 10

Choose the most appropriate option that explains the correct meaning of the following idioms:

To go to the wall

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The idiom 'To go to the wall' means to be ruined.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 11

Choose the correctly spelt word: 

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Varmillion means brilliant red pigment made from mercury sulphide (cinnabar).

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 12

Choose the correctly spelt word:

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Scr iptor ium means a r oom set apar t for writing, especially one in a monastery where manuscripts were copied.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 13

Choose the correctly spelt word:

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Thesaurus means a reference work that lists words grouped together according to similarity of meaning in contrast to a dictionary.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 14

Choose the correctly spelt word:

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Ulterior means existing beyond what is obvious or admitted; intentionally hidden.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 15

Choose the correctly spelt word:

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Reconnaissance means military observation of a region to locate an enemy or ascertain strategic features.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 16

Read the following passage and answer the following questions: The most important reason for this state of affairs is that India was the only country in the world to truly recognise the achievements of the Soviet Union-rather than merely focus on the debilitating faults that Communism brought to its people. The people of India realised that the achievement of one hundred per cent literacy in a country much, much larger than its own and with similarly complicated ethnic and religious groupings, the rapid industrialization of a nation that was a primarily agrarian society when the Bolshevik revolution took place in 1917, the attendant revolutionary steps in science and technology, the accessibility of health care (primeval according to Western standards, perhaps, but not according to Indian ones) to the general population, and despite prohibition of the government of the time the vast outpourings in literature, music, art, etc. are momentous and remarkable feats in any country.
In contrast, all that the West focused on were the massive human rights violations by the Soviet State on its people, the deliberate uprooting and mass migrations of ethnic peoples from one part of the country to another in the name of industrialization, the end of religion. In short, all the tools of information were employed to condemn the ideology of Communism, so much at variance with capitalist thinking. The difference with the Indian perception, I think here is, that while the Indians reacted as negatively to what the Soviet governments did to its people in the name of good governance (witness the imprisonment of Boris Pasternak and the formation of an international committee to put pressure for his release with Jawaharlal Nehru at its head), they took the pain notto condemn the people of that broad country in black and whiteterms; they understood that mingled in the shades of grey weregrains of uniqueness (The Russians have never failed that characteristic in themselves; they have twice experimented with completely different ideologies, Communism and Capitalism both in the space of a century).

Q. Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage?

Detailed Solution for Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 16

India appreciated the achievement of Russia in the field of literacy and rapid industrialization.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 17

Read the following passage and answer the following questions: The most important reason for this state of affairs is that India was the only country in the world to truly recognise the achievements of the Soviet Union-rather than merely focus on the debilitating faults that Communism brought to its people. The people of India realised that the achievement of one hundred per cent literacy in a country much, much larger than its own and with similarly complicated ethnic and religious groupings, the rapid industrialization of a nation that was a primarily agrarian society when the Bolshevik revolution took place in 1917, the attendant revolutionary steps in science and technology, the accessibility of health care (primeval according to Western standards, perhaps, but not according to Indian ones) to the general population, and despite prohibition of the government of the time the vast outpourings in literature, music, art, etc. are momentous and remarkable feats in any country.
In contrast, all that the West focused on were the massive human rights violations by the Soviet State on its people, the deliberate uprooting and mass migrations of ethnic peoples from one part of the country to another in the name of industrialization, the end of religion. In short, all the tools of information were employed to condemn the ideology of Communism, so much at variance with capitalist thinking. The difference with the Indian perception, I think here is, that while the Indians reacted as negatively to what the Soviet governments did to its people in the name of good governance (witness the imprisonment of Boris Pasternak and the formation of an international committee to put pressure for his release with Jawaharlal Nehru at its head), they took the pain notto condemn the people of that broad country in black and whiteterms; they understood that mingled in the shades of grey weregrains of uniqueness (The Russians have never failed that characteristic in themselves; they have twice experimented with completely different ideologies, Communism and Capitalism both in the space of a century).

Q. The West did not pay heed to:

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 18

Read the following passage and answer the following questions: The most important reason for this state of affairs is that India was the only country in the world to truly recognise the achievements of the Soviet Union-rather than merely focus on the debilitating faults that Communism brought to its people. The people of India realised that the achievement of one hundred per cent literacy in a country much, much larger than its own and with similarly complicated ethnic and religious groupings, the rapid industrialization of a nation that was a primarily agrarian society when the Bolshevik revolution took place in 1917, the attendant revolutionary steps in science and technology, the accessibility of health care (primeval according to Western standards, perhaps, but not according to Indian ones) to the general population, and despite prohibition of the government of the time the vast outpourings in literature, music, art, etc. are momentous and remarkable feats in any country.
In contrast, all that the West focused on were the massive human rights violations by the Soviet State on its people, the deliberate uprooting and mass migrations of ethnic peoples from one part of the country to another in the name of industrialization, the end of religion. In short, all the tools of information were employed to condemn the ideology of Communism, so much at variance with capitalist thinking. The difference with the Indian perception, I think here is, that while the Indians reacted as negatively to what the Soviet governments did to its people in the name of good governance (witness the imprisonment of Boris Pasternak and the formation of an international committee to put pressure for his release with Jawaharlal Nehru at its head), they took the pain notto condemn the people of that broad country in black and whiteterms; they understood that mingled in the shades of grey weregrains of uniqueness (The Russians have never failed that characteristic in themselves; they have twice experimented with completely different ideologies, Communism and Capitalism both in the space of a century).

Q. India's perception towards USSR was always

Detailed Solution for Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 18

India was th e on ly countr y in th e wor ld to truly recognise the achievements of the Soviet Union-rather than merely focus on the debilitating faults that Communism brought to its people.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 19

Read the following passage and answer the following questions: The most important reason for this state of affairs is that India was the only country in the world to truly recognise the achievements of the Soviet Union-rather than merely focus on the debilitating faults that Communism brought to its people. The people of India realised that the achievement of one hundred per cent literacy in a country much, much larger than its own and with similarly complicated ethnic and religious groupings, the rapid industrialization of a nation that was a primarily agrarian society when the Bolshevik revolution took place in 1917, the attendant revolutionary steps in science and technology, the accessibility of health care (primeval according to Western standards, perhaps, but not according to Indian ones) to the general population, and despite prohibition of the government of the time the vast outpourings in literature, music, art, etc. are momentous and remarkable feats in any country.
In contrast, all that the West focused on were the massive human rights violations by the Soviet State on its people, the deliberate uprooting and mass migrations of ethnic peoples from one part of the country to another in the name of industrialization, the end of religion. In short, all the tools of information were employed to condemn the ideology of Communism, so much at variance with capitalist thinking. The difference with the Indian perception, I think here is, that while the Indians reacted as negatively to what the Soviet governments did to its people in the name of good governance (witness the imprisonment of Boris Pasternak and the formation of an international committee to put pressure for his release with Jawaharlal Nehru at its head), they took the pain notto condemn the people of that broad country in black and whiteterms; they understood that mingled in the shades of grey weregrains of uniqueness (The Russians have never failed that characteristic in themselves; they have twice experimented with completely different ideologies, Communism and Capitalism both in the space of a century).

Q. The passage given above is

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The passage given above is analytical as analytical thinking is required to answer the questions from the passage.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 20

Choose the word which is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word:

Relinquish

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Relinquish means voluntarily cease to keep or claim.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 21

Choose the word which is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word:

Quiescent

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Quiescent means to be in a state or period of inactivity or dormancy.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 22

Choose the word which is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word:

Flagitious

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Flagitious means criminal.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 23

Choose the word which is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word:

Gregarious

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Gregarious means sociable.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 24

Choose the word which is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word:

Hirsute

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Hirsute means having hair on the body.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 25

Choose the word which is nearly opposite in meaning to the given word:

Urbane

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Urbane means a person who is polite and respectful.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 26

Where is Lothal, a prominent city of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, located?

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Lothal is one of the most prominent cities of the ancient Indus valley civilization, located in the Bh a l region of the modern state of Gujarat. The city was discovered in 1954.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 27

Which of the following films won Oscar in the best film category in 2017?

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Moonlight won Oscar in the best film category in 2017.
The film is directed by Barry Jenkins, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney's unpublished semi-autobiographical play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. It stars Trevante Rhodes, André Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, and Mahershala Ali.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 28

Which navy ship was decommissioned in 2017?

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INS Viraat was a Centaur-class aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy. The last British-built ship serving with the Indian Navy, the ship was the oldest aircraft carrier in service in the world. The ship was completed and commissioned in 1959 as the Royal Navy's HMS Hermes. Viraat was formally decommissioned on 6 March 2017.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 29

Which of the following places was chosen by Gandhiji to start his first Satyagrah?

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The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917, in the Champaran district of Bihar, India during the period of the British Raj, was the first Satyagraha movement started by Mohandas Gandhi and it was considered a major revolt in the Indian Independence Movement.

Test: AFCAT Past Year Papers 2/2017 - Question 30

Who won the Nobel Prize for the novel "Old Man and the Sea"?

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Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel "Old Man and the Sea" in 1954. The novel was published in 1952 which tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Florida.

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