Assistant Director, Establishment Division Past Paper 2001 Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: Imperative sentence

A sentence that expresses a command or order is an imperative sentence.

Correct Answer: Complex sentence

This item is defective as printed: its stem asks who heads the Pakistan Navy while its options are sentence types, so no option answers the stem; the printed key letter is published as printed.

Correct Answer: Clause

A group of words containing a subject and a predicate is a clause.

Correct Answer: Adverb

A word that modifies a verb, adjective or another adverb is an adverb.

Correct Answer: Preposition

A preposition shows the relation of a noun or pronoun to something else in the sentence.

Correct Answer: Interjection

A word expressing a sudden feeling is an interjection.

Correct Answer: Adjective

A word used with a noun to describe or point it out, or tell its number or quantity, is an adjective.

Correct Answer: Interjection

Words like Alas, Hurrah and Ah expressing sudden feeling are interjections.

Correct Answer: Common noun

When the article 'the' is used before a proper noun, it becomes a common noun (e.g. the Newton of the class).

Correct Answer: Transitive verb

A verb whose action passes over from the subject to an object is a transitive verb.

Correct Answer: Active

A sentence in which the subject does the action is in the active voice.

Correct Answer: Voice

The form of a verb showing whether the subject acts or is acted upon is its voice.

Correct Answer: Mood

The mode or manner in which the action of a verb is expressed is its mood.

Correct Answer: Present

Exclamatory sentences beginning with 'here' or 'there' for something happening now use the present tense.

Correct Answer: Present perfect continuous

An action begun in the past and still continuing is expressed by the present perfect continuous tense.

Correct Answer: Past perfect continuous

An action begun before a point in the past and continuing up to that point uses the past perfect continuous tense.

Correct Answer: Participle

A verb form partaking of the nature of both a verb and an adjective is a participle.

Correct Answer: Irony

Saying the opposite of the literal meaning is irony.

Correct Answer: Simile

A comparison between unlike things with a point in common, using 'like' or 'as', is a simile.

Correct Answer: Personification

Giving life and intelligence to inanimate objects or abstract notions is personification.

Correct Answer: Volga

The Volga is the longest river in Europe.

Correct Answer: Tropic of Cancer

On 21 June, the summer solstice, the sun is vertically overhead the Tropic of Cancer.

Correct Answer: Japanese Art of flower arrangement

Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arrangement.

Correct Answer: Spain

Spain is called the land of rabbits (its name is linked to the Phoenician word for rabbits).

Correct Answer: 1992

Pakistan won the Cricket World Cup in 1992, beating England in the final at Melbourne.

Correct Answer: Qutbuddin Aibak

Qutbuddin Aibak, the first Sultan of Delhi, died in 1210 after falling from his horse while playing polo.

Correct Answer: Turkey

The Altinkaya Dam is in Turkey, on the Kizilirmak River.

Correct Answer: Albania

Albania is in Europe; Algeria and Libya are in Africa and Venezuela in South America.

Correct Answer: Australia

Australia is the smallest continent by area.

Correct Answer: Siberian

Coniferous forests are found in the cold Siberian (taiga) climate.

Correct Answer: Antarctica

Antarctica is the icy continent, almost entirely covered by ice.

Correct Answer: 170 km

The Suez Canal's length is given in the book's era as about 170 km (the canal has since been extended to about 193 km).

Correct Answer: Monsoon

The monsoon is the classic example of a seasonal wind.

Correct Answer: Coniferous

Coniferous forests account for the largest share of the world's total forest area.

Correct Answer: Astola Island

Astola, off the Balochistan coast near Pasni, is Pakistan's largest island.

Correct Answer: 702 feet

Lahore stands about 700 feet (around 217 metres) above sea level, so 702 feet is the closest option.

Correct Answer: 1700 feet

Islamabad stands about 1,700 feet (around 540 metres) above sea level.

Correct Answer: 32.5%

According to the 1998 census, about 32.5% of Pakistan's population was urban.

Correct Answer: June-September

The Kharif crop season runs roughly from May to October in Pakistan.

Correct Answer: 3

At Partition in 1947, Pakistan had three working radio stations (Lahore, Peshawar and Dhaka).

Correct Answer: 42%

In the book's era figure, agriculture accounted for about 45% of employment in Pakistan.

Correct Answer: Agriculture

Agriculture has traditionally been treated as the largest sector of Pakistan's economy.

Correct Answer: Textile

Textile exports have long been Pakistan's dominant foreign-exchange earner.

Correct Answer: Kharif and Rabi

Pakistan's two main cropping seasons are Kharif (summer) and Rabi (winter).

Correct Answer: 36

In the book's era the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation operated 36 radio stations.

Correct Answer: Islamabad

Islamabad is cited as Pakistan's largest radio station.

Correct Answer: Lord Curzon

Lord Curzon was Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905.

Correct Answer: Agha Khan

The Simla Deputation of 1906 to Lord Minto, seeking separate electorates, was headed by the Aga Khan.

Correct Answer: Orient Airways

Orient Airways, founded in 1946, was Pakistan's oldest airline and the forerunner of PIA.

Correct Answer: Mulvi Abdl Haq

Maulvi Abdul Haq is honoured as Baba-e-Urdu for his services to the Urdu language.

Correct Answer: 9.98%

Cost price is Rs. 50,000/1.17 = Rs. 42,735, so selling at Rs. 47,000 gives about 9.98% profit.

Correct Answer: 240kg

With Q twice P and R half of Q, the shares are in ratio 1:2:1, so Q gets 240 kg of the 480 kg.

Correct Answer: 11 sec

At 36 km/h (10 m/s), a 110 m train passes a point in 110/10 = 11 seconds.

Correct Answer: 97

Four tests averaging 85 need 340 marks in total; 340 - (75+82+86) = 97.

Correct Answer: 1000

If 45% failed, 55% passed, so 550 successful students imply 550/0.55 = 1,000 appeared.

Correct Answer: 48%

Cost price is Rs. 76/1.52 = Rs. 50, so selling at Rs. 74 gives a gain of 24/50 = 48%.

Correct Answer: 12 1/2% gain

Cost price is Rs. 240/1.25 = Rs. 192, so selling at Rs. 216 gains 24/192 = 12.5%.

Correct Answer: six days

Six women equal nine girls, so eight women plus three girls equal fifteen girls, who finish in 9x10/15 = 6 days.

Correct Answer: 7 days

The work is 116 man-days; twelve men plus eight boys equal about 16.6 men, taking 116/16.6 = 7 days.

Correct Answer: 10 hrs

The work is 8x5 = 40 hours, so in 4 days it needs 40/4 = 10 hours a day.

Correct Answer: 10

The fraction 2/5 equals 20/50, so the printed options contain no correct value for this item.

Correct Answer: 54

45 men in 40 minutes make 27 x (45/15) x (40/60) = 54 baskets.

Correct Answer: 5000

5,448 rounded to the nearest thousand is 5,000.

Correct Answer: 6

Six men plus eight boys equal twenty boys, who take 6x20/20 = 6 days.

Correct Answer: 37

If the old average was x, then 17(x+3) = 16x + 85 gives x = 34, so the new average is 37.

Correct Answer: 4 cm

With perimeter 24 cm and length 8 cm, 2(8 + width) = 24 gives width 4 cm.

Correct Answer: 8w

w weeks are 7w days, plus w days gives 8w days.

Correct Answer: 8, 0

The odd terms run 2, 4, 6, 8 and the even terms fall 15, 12, 7, 0, giving 8, 0.

Correct Answer: 7856

The series rises by 1,008 each time, so the next term is 6,848 + 1,008 = 7,856.

Correct Answer: 4718

The falling differences fit 4,718 between 5,242 and 4,247 in this series.

Correct Answer: adrenal gland

The adrenal gland is an endocrine gland, not an excretory organ like the lungs, liver and kidney.

Correct Answer: light energy into electrical energy

A photoelectric cell converts light energy into electrical energy.

Correct Answer: real and inverted

The image formed on the retina is real and inverted.

Correct Answer: plasma

Blood plasma carries food materials (nutrients) to all tissues of the body.

Correct Answer: animal action not backed by thinking

An instinct is an animal action not backed by thinking.

Correct Answer: 639

The human body has about 639 muscles (206 is the adult bone count).

Correct Answer: to neutralize poisons that are produced during exercise or work

Rest after exercise lets the body neutralise waste products such as lactic acid produced during exertion.

Correct Answer: a mammal

A whale is a mammal, not a fish, although it lives in water.

Correct Answer: blue

The sky looks blue because air molecules scatter blue sunlight more than other colours.

Correct Answer: respiratory system

The lungs are part of the respiratory system.

Correct Answer: Venus

In order from the Sun, Venus lies between Mercury and Earth.

Correct Answer: Both C&D

Mercury and Venus are the planets with no natural satellites.

Correct Answer: Steel rod

Sound travels fastest in solids, so its velocity is largest in a steel rod.

Correct Answer: height of an object

A sextant measures the angular height of an object, used to find its height.

Correct Answer: poor conductors of heat

Liquids are generally poor conductors of heat.

Correct Answer: iron oxide

Rust is iron oxide, formed when iron reacts with oxygen in the presence of moisture.

Correct Answer: dry air

Dry air, by definition, carries no moisture.

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

On cloudy nights clouds trap outgoing radiation, keeping ground temperature higher so frost does not form.

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

Lightning occurs when opposite charges in clouds break down the resistance of the intervening air.

Correct Answer: D

Liver, milk, egg yolk and fish liver oil are 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 who discovered them.

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: any movement of an object

Kinetic energy is the energy produced by any movement of an object.

Correct Answer: Galileo

Galileo first experimented with falling bodies and gravity, long before Newton's laws of gravitation.

Correct Answer: Some electrons escape from it

A body becomes positively charged when some electrons escape from it.

Correct Answer: blue light is scattered more than red

A clear sky is blue because blue light is scattered more than red light by air molecules.

Correct Answer: Oersted

Magnetic intensity is expressed in oersteds (in the CGS system).