Customs Inspector Past Paper 2001 Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: gay

Grim means stern or gloomy, so its antonym among the options is gay, in its older sense of cheerful.

Correct Answer: accessible

Remote means far away or isolated, so its antonym is accessible.

Correct Answer: withdrawal

To encroach is to intrude gradually, so withdrawal, pulling back, is the opposite offered.

Correct Answer: decrease

Escalate means to increase in intensity, so its antonym is decrease.

Correct Answer: temporary

Eternal means lasting forever, so its antonym is temporary.

Correct Answer: brush: touch

A whisper is a soft form of speaking, just as a brush is a light form of touching.

Correct Answer: headstrong: control

Something elusive evades capture, just as someone headstrong resists control.

Correct Answer: gulp (swallow), sip

A stare is an intense, prolonged glance, just as a gulp is a large, hearty sip.

Correct Answer: impeccable: flaw

Infallible means free from error, just as impeccable means free from flaw.

Correct Answer: octane: gasoline

Proof measures the strength of alcohol, just as the octane rating measures the quality of gasoline.

Correct Answer: skillful

Adept means highly skilled.

Correct Answer: ancient

Antique means ancient, belonging to an earlier period.

Correct Answer: favourable

Auspicious means favourable, promising success.

Correct Answer: uncover

Bare means uncovered, so its meaning here is uncover.

Correct Answer: rough

Coarse means rough in texture.

Correct Answer: disagreement

Dissent, printed 'Qissent', means disagreement.

Correct Answer: unlawful

Illicit means unlawful or forbidden.

Correct Answer: useful

Efficacious means effective, producing the desired result, so useful is the closest offered meaning.

Correct Answer: sorrowful

The book keys this item to sorrowful, but festive actually means joyful or celebratory, so none of the offered options gives the correct meaning.

Correct Answer: happiness

Felicity means happiness.

Correct Answer: Punjab

The major segment of the Saraiki-speaking population lives in Punjab, chiefly southern Punjab.

Correct Answer: Rose

Ayub Khan's electoral symbol in the 1965 presidential election was the Rose.

Correct Answer: Indirect Democracy

The Constitution of 1962 introduced indirect democracy through the Basic Democracies system.

Correct Answer: Ayub Khan

The book attributes the first election rigging to Ayub Khan's government, in the 1965 presidential election.

Correct Answer: Sindh

Sindh is the most urbanized province of Pakistan.

Correct Answer: Ten years

Census is held in Pakistan after every ten years.

Correct Answer: Agriculture

Agriculture engages the largest share of Pakistan's labour force.

Correct Answer: 1965

After winning the 1965 presidential election, Ayub Khan's government went to war with India in 1965.

Correct Answer: 44%

Punjabi speakers were about 44% of Pakistan's population in the 1998 census.

Correct Answer: 169 Km

Pakistan's first railway track, Karachi to Kotri, was 169 km long.

Correct Answer: 7791 Km long

Pakistan Railways' total track length is given in the book as 7,791 km.

Correct Answer: 805 Km

The book gives the Gwadar Motorway length as 805 km.

Correct Answer: 367 Km

The Lahore-Islamabad Motorway (M-2) is 367 km long.

Correct Answer: 1976

The Abdul Qadeer Khan Nuclear Research Laboratories at Kahuta were set up in 1976.

Correct Answer: 6th

Pakistan ranked 6th in the world by population when this paper was set.

Correct Answer: Mujeeb-ur-Rehman

The 1970 election in East Pakistan was swept by Mujeeb-ur-Rehman and the Awami League.

Correct Answer: Iskander Mirza

Iskander Mirza became Governor General of Pakistan after Ghulam Mohammad's ailment in 1955.

Correct Answer: Dec. 20, 1976

PTV started colour transmission on December 20, 1976, according to the book's key.

Correct Answer: 1969

Chitral was merged as a district of Pakistan in 1969.

Correct Answer: 1971

East Pakistan separated from the west in December 1971.

Correct Answer: Sutlej

Under the Indus Waters Treaty, Pakistan was disallowed the use of the eastern river Sutlej, allocated to India.

Correct Answer: 1922

Allama Iqbal was given the title of Sir (knighted) in 1922.

Correct Answer: Walida Merhooma ki Yaad Mayn

In memory of his mother, Iqbal wrote the long poem 'Walida Merhooma ki Yaad Mayn'.

Correct Answer: 1919

Quaid-i-Azam resigned from the Imperial Council in 1919, in protest against the Rowlatt Act.

Correct Answer: I.I. Chundrigar

I.I. Chundrigar had the shortest tenure as Prime Minister of Pakistan, about 56 days in 1957; Ayub Khan was President, never Prime Minister.

Correct Answer: 1881

The first synchronous census of the Sub-Continent was held in 1881.

Correct Answer: Russia

Aeroflot is the airline of Russia.

Correct Answer: 1935

Indian women were given the right to vote under the Government of India Act, 1935.

Correct Answer: 1941

The Muslim Student Federation (Women Wing) was established in Delhi in 1941, according to the book's key.

Correct Answer: Sind

The secret newspaper Sada-i-Pakistan was published from Sind, according to the book's key.

Correct Answer: Maulana Shaukat Ali

Maulana Shaukat Ali was the secretary of the Khilafat committee set up to help the Khilafat cause.

Correct Answer: 1877

The Central National Muhammadan Association was founded in 1877 by Syed Ameer Ali.

Correct Answer: Lord Bentinck

English was introduced in India under Lord Bentinck, through Macaulay's Minute of 1835.

Correct Answer: 1875

The Arya Samaj was founded in 1875 by Swami Dayananda Saraswati.

Correct Answer: 5

The United Nations Security Council has 5 permanent members.

Correct Answer: purchase invoice

A firm buying goods on credit records the purchase with a purchase invoice.

Correct Answer: classifying and recording business transaction

The prime function of accounting is classifying and recording business transactions.

Correct Answer: 2 years

Non-permanent members of the Security Council serve for 2 years.

Correct Answer: by alphabetical order

The book keys this item to alphabetical order, but non-permanent members of the Security Council are actually elected by the UN General Assembly, which is not among the options.

Correct Answer: China

The Karakoram Highway connects Pakistan with China.

Correct Answer: Punjab

The Toot oil and natural gas field is located in Punjab.

Correct Answer: Gas fields

Zain and Mari are famous for gas fields; Mari is one of Pakistan's largest gas fields.

Correct Answer: over 740

Over 740 bird species have been identified in Pakistan, according to the book's figure.

Correct Answer: James Abbott

Abbottabad is named after James Abbott, who founded it in the 1850s.

Correct Answer: crumbling rock

Karakoram comes from Turkic kara koram, 'black gravel'; crumbling rock is the closest offered meaning.

Correct Answer: Iraq

Mesopotamia was the old name of Iraq.

Correct Answer: Russia

The Volga river is in Russia.

Correct Answer: Lebanon

Beirut is the capital of Lebanon.

Correct Answer: Sweden

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden.

Correct Answer: 37

Urdu is commonly counted as having 37 alphabets.

Correct Answer: break the circuit when excessive current flows

A fuse breaks the circuit when excessive current flows, protecting the circuit.

Correct Answer: Length of light waves

The Angstrom measures the length of light waves.

Correct Answer: Because they can reduce transmission losses

Transformers are used in power transmission because they can reduce transmission losses, by stepping voltage up for long-distance lines.

Correct Answer: Moderator

The moderator controls the chain reaction in a nuclear reactor by slowing neutrons so fission can be sustained.

Correct Answer: Galvanometer

A galvanometer is used for detecting and measuring small electric currents.

Correct Answer: Coulomb

Coulomb discovered the law of attraction and repulsion between electric charges.

Correct Answer: The atmospheric pressure at higher altitudes is low as compared to that at sea level

Water boils below 100°C at higher altitudes because the atmospheric pressure there is low compared to sea level.

Correct Answer: Spectrometer

The book keys the precise measurement of refractive indices to the spectrometer; a refractometer is the dedicated instrument but is not offered.

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

Frost is generally not formed on cloudy nights because clouds prevent radiation, helping the ground temperature remain higher.

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

Lightning is caused when opposite charges in different clouds break down the resistance offered by the intervening air.

Correct Answer: Rs: 10.20

20% of 30% of 20% of Rs. 850 is 0.2 x 0.3 x 0.2 x 850 = Rs. 10.20.

Correct Answer: 19

The pattern joins (a-b) and (a+b): 5-4 = 1 and 5+4 = 9, giving 19.

Correct Answer: 16th

Tomorrow (Monday) is the 1st, so the Sunday of the following week is the 14th and two days after it is the 16th.

Correct Answer: 48

Total 200 pages in (100/60 + 100/40) = 4 hours 10 minutes, giving an average rate of 48 pages per hour.

Correct Answer: nephew

A's mother is my daughter's aunt, that is my sister, since I have no brother, so A is my nephew.

Correct Answer: 12 km

One boat covers 60 km in 5 hours, i.e. 12 km in one hour; the stem says miles but the options are in km.

Correct Answer: 20,000

100 pages x 20 lines x 10 words = 20,000 words.

Correct Answer: 32

If x/4 + 7 = 15, then x/4 = 8, so x = 32.

Correct Answer: 10 days

10 ships use 10 tanks in 10 days, so one ship uses one tank in 10 days.

Correct Answer: 625

(25)^2 x 2^0 = 625 x 1 = 625.

Correct Answer: 18,000

Rs. 1,500 per month x 12 months = Rs. 18,000 for one year.

Correct Answer: 30,000

Rs. 2,500 per month x 12 months = Rs. 30,000 in one year.

Correct Answer: 300 km

The truck covers 120/6 = 20 km per litre, so in 15 litres it covers 300 km.

Correct Answer: 8,550

Rs. 102,600 / 12 months = Rs. 8,550 average rent per month.

Correct Answer: Rs. 12,950

Rs. 1,850 average x 7 shops = Rs. 12,950 total rent.

Correct Answer: 84

The square root of 144 is 12 and of 49 is 7, and 12 x 7 = 84.

Correct Answer: 8a^2

3a^2 + 5a^2 = 8a^2.

Correct Answer: x^9

x^18 divided by x^9 = x^9.

Correct Answer: 3

If x + 2 = 5, then x = 3.

Correct Answer: 12

If x + 6 = 18, then x = 12.