Patrol Officer Motorways Police Past Paper Solved MCQs

Correct Answer: With

The prince allied himself with the Scots, since one allies with a person or group.

Correct Answer: Of

She is a staunch advocate of free speech, since one is an advocate of a cause.

Correct Answer: With

The hospital is affiliated with the local university, since an institution is affiliated with another institution.

Correct Answer: With

She has a deep affinity with nature, since affinity is felt with something.

Correct Answer: With

Food agrees with a person, so strawberry does not agree with me.

Correct Answer: At

She was alarmed at the prospect of travelling alone, since one is alarmed at something.

Correct Answer: To

He was alive to the danger, since to be alive to something means to be aware of it.

Correct Answer: To

One is allergic to something, so he is allergic to cats.

Correct Answer: Into

Two companies were amalgamated into one, since separate things merge into a single thing.

Correct Answer: At

We were amazed at her generosity, since one is amazed at something.

Correct Answer: Idle

Idle is the word for a girl who does nothing, while idol is an object of worship and bridle is a horse's headgear.

Correct Answer: Impossible

Nothing is impossible in this world, the standard form of the saying.

Correct Answer: Heir

Heir is the person who inherits a fortune, while hair and hare are unrelated words.

Correct Answer: Heal

Time will heal her sorrows, since heal means to cure or mend over time.

Correct Answer: Human

To err is human, to forgive divine is the complete proverb.

Correct Answer: Useless

Futile means useless, something that achieves nothing.

Correct Answer: Practical

Pragmatic means practical, dealing with problems in a realistic way.

Correct Answer: Relevant

Germane means relevant, closely connected to the subject.

Correct Answer: Complete

Comprehensive means complete, covering everything.

Correct Answer: Consist of

Comprise means to consist of, to be made up of parts.

Correct Answer: 168

The printed item is defective: 15 x 23 + 42 x 3 = 345 + 126 = 471, which is not among the options, so it is retained at the book's key (168) with this note.

Correct Answer: 50

(60) squared is 3600, and 3600 divided by 72 is 50.

Correct Answer: 100

Read with the faint division sign, 840 / 14 + 40 = 60 + 40 = 100.

Correct Answer: 10

With the second operator read as multiplication, 4 + 3 x 2 = 4 + 6 = 10 by order of operations.

Correct Answer: 3

27 divided by 7 is 3 with remainder 6, so the mixed number is 3 6/7; the key's 3 is the whole-number part, since the full mixed number is not offered.

Correct Answer: 1

(31/10) x (3/10) is 93/100 and (7/5) divided by 20 is 7/100, so the sum is 100/100 = 1.

Correct Answer: 79/120

The printed fraction item is garbled in the scan and no clean derivation yields an offered option, so it is retained at the book's key (79/120) with this note.

Correct Answer: 250

12 percent of 400 is 48, since 400 x 0.12 = 48.

Correct Answer: 80

If x percent of 60 is 48, then x = 48 / 60 x 100 = 80.

Correct Answer: 720

If Justin has J shells, Javaid has 0.8J, and J - 0.8J = 80 gives J = 400 and Javaid = 320, so together they have 720 shells.

Correct Answer: 12

12 cubed is 12 x 12 x 12 = 1728.

Correct Answer: 12

The printed item is defective: 5.76 - 1.6 - 2.4 = 1.76, which is not among the options, so it is retained at the book's key (12) with this note.

Correct Answer: 26

With 48 heads and 140 feet, the cows number (140 - 2 x 48) / 2 = 22, so the hens number 48 - 22 = 26.

Correct Answer: 100

If A - 10 = B + 10 and A + 20 = 2 x (B - 20), then B = 80 and A = 100, so room A has 100 students.

Correct Answer: 30

David's floor after t minutes is 11 + 57t and Albert's is 51 - 63t; they are equal when 120t = 40, so t = 1/3 and the floor is 11 + 19 = 30.

Correct Answer: 48

Sarah reads 200 pages in 100/60 + 100/40 = 25/6 hours, so her average rate is 200 / (25/6) = 48 pages per hour.

Correct Answer: Rs. 50

If the cost is Rs. 50, the profit is Rs. 25, which is 50 percent of the cost, and the profit percentage (50) equals the cost price (50), matching the condition.

Correct Answer: None of these

42.5 divided by 0.85 is 50, which is not among the options, so None of these is correct.

Correct Answer: 49.6%

Successive discounts of 30 percent, 20 percent and 10 percent leave 0.7 x 0.8 x 0.9 = 0.504 of the price, a single discount of 49.6 percent.

Correct Answer: 62 days

Four workers take 48 days, so the job is 192 worker-days, and 3 workers take 192 / 3 = 64 days.

Correct Answer: Louis Pasteur

Louis Pasteur discovered the treatment of rabies, the cure for hydrophobia.

Correct Answer: maintain the normal composition of the blood

One of the kidney's functions is to maintain the normal composition of the blood.

Correct Answer: carbohydrates

Insulin controls the metabolism of carbohydrates, regulating blood glucose.

Correct Answer: medulla

The brain centre for the control of breathing is in the medulla.

Correct Answer: proteins

Proteins are the most abundant organic molecules in living organisms.

Correct Answer: produced by the body in response to an antigen

Antibodies are chemicals produced by the body in response to an antigen.

Correct Answer: 46

The normal chromosome number in humans is 46, in 23 pairs.

Correct Answer: Evangelista Torricelli

Evangelista Torricelli invented the barometer.

Correct Answer: Newton

Newton was the first to devise the reflecting type of telescope.

Correct Answer: capillary action

A blotting paper absorbs ink because of capillary action, which draws liquid into its fine pores.

Correct Answer: 40,000 km/hr

The escape velocity needed to leave the earth is about 11.2 kilometres per second, roughly 40,000 kilometres per hour.

Correct Answer: light waves

Radio waves are much like light waves, since both are electromagnetic waves.

Correct Answer: more elastic than rubber

Steel is more elastic than rubber in the physics sense, having a far higher Young's modulus, which is why springs are made of steel.

Correct Answer: lungs

Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs.

Correct Answer: protozoan

Sleeping sickness is caused by a protozoan, the Trypanosoma parasite carried by the tsetse fly.

Correct Answer: age of an object

Carbon dating is a scientific process for determining the age of an object, from its carbon-14 content.

Correct Answer: vitamin K

The vitamin associated with the clotting of blood is vitamin K.

Correct Answer: oranges

The best source of vitamin C among the options is oranges.

Correct Answer: to keep cool

A dog hangs its tongue out to keep cool, since panting evaporates moisture and loses heat.

Correct Answer: 3,500 calories per day

The book's sources quote about 3,500 calories per day for a labourer doing heavy work; other sources quote higher figures, so this textbook figure is retained with that note.

Correct Answer: Omro Bin Al-Aas

Amr ibn al-As (Omro Bin Al-Aas) conquered Egypt for the Muslims.

Correct Answer: Syria

The Banu Ghassan (Ghassanids) were centred in Syria and the Levant, not Iraq, so the answer is Syria.

Correct Answer: Omar (R.A)

Umar (R.A) penned down the peace treaty on the conquest of Jerusalem, the covenant assuring the city's people safety.

Correct Answer: Omar (R.A)

Koofa (Kufa) was built on the orders of Umar (R.A), founded by Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas.

Correct Answer: Usman (R.A)

Tripoli was first captured in 643 CE in Umar's caliphate and consolidated in the 647 campaign under Uthman; the book's key follows the Uthman tradition and is retained with this note.

Correct Answer: 15 Hijrah

Umar (R.A) established the regular military institution, the Diwan and standing army register, in 15 Hijrah.

Correct Answer: Moselma Kazab

The Battle of Yamama was fought against Musaylimah (Moselma Kazab), who claimed prophethood.

Correct Answer: Yarmuk

The Battle of Yarmuk decided the fate of Syria, opening the Levant to the Muslims.

Correct Answer: 12000

The standard figure for Muslims martyred at Yamama is about 1,200, so the printed 12,000 appears to be a misprint for 1,200, which is not offered; the item is retained at the book's key with this note.

Correct Answer: 34 years

Uthman (R.A) was 34 years old when he accepted Islam.

Correct Answer: Abu Hararia

Abu Hurairah is supposed to have quoted the maximum number of Ahadith among the companions.

Correct Answer: 4 times

The word Muhammad as a name has been mentioned in the Holy Quran 4 times.

Correct Answer: Bengali & Urdu

Under the 1962 constitution the official languages of Pakistan were Bengali and Urdu.

Correct Answer: 1985

General Zia held elections in 1985, the non-party elections of February 1985.

Correct Answer: 1972

The Line of Control came into existence in 1972, under the Simla Agreement after the 1971 war.

Correct Answer: 805 Km

The Pakistan-Iran border is about 909 kilometres, so of the offered options 805 kilometres is the closest; 595 kilometres is the Pakistan-China border figure.

Correct Answer: 205344 sq Km

The area covered by Punjab is 205,344 square kilometres.

Correct Answer: 4

Pakistan has four seasons: summer, winter, spring and autumn.

Correct Answer: Sakasar

The highest peak of the Salt Range is Sakasar (Sakesar).

Correct Answer: K.P

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the province with no desert, unlike Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan.

Correct Answer: 2

Punjab has two deserts, Cholistan and Thal.

Correct Answer: Rohi

The Cholistan desert is also known as Rohi.

Correct Answer: B

If A is smaller than B but taller than C, then B is the tallest of the three.

Correct Answer: News Agency

Tass (TASS) is a news agency, the Soviet Union's official news agency.

Correct Answer: Anti Terrorist Court

ATC stands for Anti Terrorist Court.

Correct Answer: Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

APEC stands for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation.

Correct Answer: Amla

Amla contains a very high percentage of vitamin C, higher than turnip, carrot or onion.

Correct Answer: Man

Homo sapiens is the scientific name whose common name is Man.

Correct Answer: Dutch Airlines

KLM is the name of the Dutch Airlines, the flag carrier of the Netherlands.

Correct Answer: Pan Islamism

Jamal-ud-Din Afghani was the champion of Pan Islamism, the unity of the Muslim world.

Correct Answer: Germany

Bismarck was the Iron Man of Germany, the chancellor who unified Germany.

Correct Answer: Computer Virus

The Millennium Bug (Y2K) is a computer problem, a software bug in date handling, not a virus, but the computer option is the only plausible offered answer.

Correct Answer: 1991

The Gulf War's coalition phase started in 1991, with Operation Desert Storm in January 1991.

Correct Answer: China

China was the country that used currency notes first, paper money in the Song era.

Correct Answer: Macedonia

Alexander the Great belongs to Macedonia.

Correct Answer: 1991

The water accord between the provinces, the Water Apportionment Accord, was concluded in 1991.

Correct Answer: President

The President appoints the governor of a province in Pakistan.

Correct Answer: Pyramids

Giza in Egypt is famous for the Pyramids.

Correct Answer: Germany

The Chancellor is called the head of Germany, its head of government.

Correct Answer: Lahore

Lahore is the most densely populated district of Punjab.